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@ARTICLE{Ehhalt:3197,
author = {Ehhalt, D.H. and Rohrer, F.},
title = {{T}he tropospheric cycle of {H}2: {A} critical review},
journal = {Tellus / B},
volume = {61},
issn = {0280-6509},
address = {Oxford [u.a.]},
publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
reportid = {PreJuSER-3197},
pages = {500 - 535},
year = {2009},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {The literature on the distribution, budget and isotope
content of molecular hydrogen (H2) in the troposphere is
critically reviewed. The global distribution of H2 is
reasonably well established and is relatively uniform. The
surface measurements exhibit a weak latitudinal gradient
with $3\%$ higher concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere
and seasonal variations that maximize in arctic latitudes
and the interior of continents with peak-to-peak amplitudes
up to $10\%.$ There is no evidence for a continuous
long-term trend, but older data suggest a reversal of the
interhemispheric gradient in the late 1970s, and an increase
in the deuterium content of H2 in the Northern Hemisphere
from 80 standard mean ocean water (SMOW) in the 1970s to 130
today. The current budget analyses can be divided in two
classes: bottom up, in which the source and sink terms are
estimated separately based on emission factors and turnovers
of precursors and on global integration of regional loss
rates, respectively. That category includes the analyses by
3-D models and furnishes tropospheric turnovers around 75 Tg
H2 yr−1. The other approach, referred to as top down,
relies on inverse modelling or analysis of the deuterium
budget of tropospheric H2. These provide a global turnover
of about 105 Tg H2 yr−1. The difference is due to a much
larger sink strength by soil uptake and a much larger H2
production from the photochemical oxidation of volatile
organic compounds (VOC) in the case of the top down
approaches. The balance of evidence seems to favour the
lower estimates—mainly due to the constraint placed by the
global CO budget on the H2 production from VOC. An update of
the major source and sink terms yields: fossil fuel use
11±4 TgH2 yr−1; biomass burning (including bio-fuel) 15
± 6 Tg H2 yr−1; nitrogen fixation (ocean) 6 ± 3 Tg H2
yr−1; nitrogen fixation (land) 3 ± 2 Tg H2 yr−1;
photochemical production from CH4 23 ± 8 Tg H2 yr−1 and
photochemical production from other VOC 18 ± 7 Tg H2
yr−1. The loss through reaction of H2 with OH is 19 ± 5
Tg H2 yr−1, and soil uptake 60+30 −20 Tg H2 yr−1. All
these rates are well within the ranges of the corresponding
bottom up estimates in the literature. The total loss of 79
Tg H2 yr−1 combined with a tropospheric burden of 155 Tg
H2 yields a tropospheric H2 lifetime of 2 yr. Besides these
major sources of H2, there are a number of minor ones with
source strengths > 1 Tg H2 yr−1. Rough estimates for these
are also given.},
cin = {ICG-2},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB791},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000266678200002},
doi = {10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00416.x},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/3197},
}