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@PHDTHESIS{Knstler:878229,
author = {Künstler, Christopher},
title = {{M}easurements of {A}tmospheric {OH} and {HO}$_{2}$
{R}adicals by {L}aser-{I}nduced {F}luorescence on the {HALO}
{A}ircraft during the {OMO}-{ASIA} 2015 {C}ampaign},
volume = {495},
school = {Universität Köln},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-02698},
isbn = {978-3-95806-477-5},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {156 S.},
year = {2020},
note = {Universität Köln, Diss.,2020},
abstract = {The goal of this work was to investigate the chemistry of
atmospheric OH and HO$_{2}$ radicals in the upper
troposphere during the Asian summer monsoon period2015
within the Oxidation Mechanism Observation (OMO) campaign.
Concentrations of OH and HO$_{2}$ were measured by a
laser-induced fluorescence instrument (AirLIF) on the German
research aircraft HALO between the Mediterranean Sea and the
Maldives in the Indian Ocean. The measured data are compared
to theoretical model predictions in order to test the
understanding of atmospheric oxidation processes. For this
purpose the precedingly developed AirLIF instrument at
Forschungszentrum Jülich was thoroughly characterized in
the laboratory and different calibration concepts applied
and compared. The radical measurements during OMO were then
evaluated and a zero-dimensional chemical box-model
calculation for the expected OH and HO$_{2}$ radical
concentrations was tested against the measurement results.
For the radical measurements using the AirLIF instrument on
HALO, the ambient air is first sampled and decelerated by a
factor of 10 inside a shrouded inlet. The air is then
expanded into a measurement cell at low pressure inside the
aircraft, where OH is detected by laser excited
fluorescence. The OH and HO$_{2}$ channel of AirLIF needed
to be characterized for the flight conditions during OMO.
Different calibration concepts have been applied and
combined to determine the OH and HO$_{2}$ detection
sensitivities as a function of flight altitude, ambient
pressure and temperature. These include the well-established
ground-based calibrations between flights to track the
absolute sensitivities. The relative dependence with
altitude was measured in the laboratory using a newly
designed photochemical radical source which allows
calibration at reduced pressure to simulate ambient air
pressure at flight conditions. For the OH-channel as an
additional option an in-flight calibration unit inside the
shrouded inlet was used. It is however limited to below 10
km, because the radical production by the artificial
photolysis of ambient water vapour becomes too small. To
simulate the in-flight conditions, other research groups
have confided inusing different nozzle sizes to change the
mass-flow through the system ins-tead of varying ambient
pressure. As part of a consistency check, both methods have
been compared in detail and it is confirmed that they
essentially agree. However, discontinuities in the pressure
dependence of the OH [...]},
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url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/878229},
}