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@ARTICLE{Wegner:824376,
author = {Wegner, Tobias and Pitts, Michael C. and Poole, L. R. and
Tritscher, Ines and Grooss, Jens-Uwe and Nakajima, H.},
title = {{V}ortex-wide chlorine activation by a mesoscale {PSC} in
the {A}rctic winter of 2009/10},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {16},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-06976},
pages = {4569-4577},
year = {2016},
abstract = {In the Arctic polar vortex of the 2009/10 winter
temperatures were low enough to allow widespread formation
of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs). These clouds occurred
during the initial chlorine activation phase which provided
the opportunity to investigate the impact of PSCs on
chlorine activation. Satellite observations of gas-phase
species and PSCs are used in combination with trajectory
modeling to assess this initial activation. The initial
activation occurred in association with the formation of
PSCs over the east coast of Greenland at the beginning of
January 2010. Although this area of PSCs covered only a
small portion of the vortex, it was responsible for almost
the entire initial activation of chlorine vortex wide.
Observations show HCl (hydrochloric acid) mixing ratios
decreased rapidly in and downstream of this region.
Trajectory calculations and simplified heterogeneous
chemistry modeling confirmed that the initial chlorine
activation continued until ClONO2 (chlorine nitrate) was
completely depleted and the activated air masses were
advected throughout the polar vortex. For the calculation of
heterogeneous reaction rates, surface area density is
estimated from backscatter observations. Modeled
heterogeneous reaction rates along trajectories intersecting
with the PSCs indicate that the initial phase of chlorine
activation occurred in just a few hours. These calculations
also indicate that chlorine activation on the binary
background aerosol is significantly slower than on the PSC
particles and the observed chlorine activation can only be
explained by an increase in surface area density due to PSC
formation. Furthermore, there is a strong correlation
between the magnitude of the observed HCl depletion and PSC
surface area density.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000374703000021},
doi = {10.5194/acp-16-4569-2016},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/824376},
}