Climate and tropospheric oxidizing capacity

AM Fiore, LJ Mickley, Q Zhu… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The hydroxyl radical (OH) largely controls the tropospheric self-cleansing capacity by
reacting with gases harmful to the environment and human health. OH concentrations are …

Water microdroplets in air: a hitherto unnoticed natural source of nitrogen oxides

A Kumar, VS Avadhani, A Nandy, S Mondal… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Water microdroplets are widespread in the atmosphere. We report a striking observation that
micron-sized water droplets obtained from zero-volt spray sources (sonic spray, humidifier …

Why is ozone in South Korea and the Seoul metropolitan area so high and increasing?

NK Colombi, DJ Jacob, LH Yang, S Zhai… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Surface ozone pollution in South Korea has increased over the past 2 decades, despite
efforts to decrease emissions, and is pervasively in exceedance of the maximum daily 8 h …

Tropospheric NO 2 vertical profiles over South Korea and their relation to oxidant chemistry: implications for geostationary satellite retrievals and the observation of NO …

LH Yang, DJ Jacob, NK Colombi, S Zhai… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Nitrogen oxides (NO x≡ NO+ NO 2) are of central importance for air quality, climate forcing,
and nitrogen deposition to ecosystems. The Geostationary Environment Monitoring …

Background nitrogen dioxide (NO over the United States and its implications for satellite observations and trends: effects of nitrate photolysis, aircraft, and open fires

R Dang, DJ Jacob, V Shah, SD Eastham… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) measured from satellites has been widely used to
track anthropogenic NO x emissions, but its retrieval and interpretation can be complicated …

Linking gas, particulate, and toxic endpoints to air emissions in the Community Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Multiphase Mechanism (CRACMM) version 1.0

HOT Pye, BK Place, BN Murphy… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Chemical mechanisms describe the atmospheric transformations of organic and inorganic
species and connect air emissions to secondary species such as ozone, fine particles, and …

Monitoring fossil fuel CO2 emissions from co-emitted NO2 observed from space: progress, challenges, and future perspectives

H Li, J Qiu, K Zhang, B Zheng - Frontiers of Environmental Science & …, 2025 - Springer
Develo** an anthropogenic carbon dioxides (CO2) emissions monitoring and verification
support (MVS) capacity is essential to support the Global Stocktake (GST) and ratchet up …

Continuing benefits of the Montreal Protocol and protection of the stratospheric ozone layer for human health and the environment

S Madronich, GH Bernhard, PJ Neale… - Photochemical & …, 2024 - Springer
The protection of Earth's stratospheric ozone (O3) is an ongoing process under the auspices
of the universally ratified Montreal Protocol and its Amendments and adjustments. A critical …

Synthesizing evidence for the external cycling of NOx in high- to low-NOx atmospheres

C Ye, X Zhou, Y Zhang, Y Wang, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
External cycling regenerating nitrogen oxides (NOx≡ NO+ NO2) from their oxidative
reservoir, NOz, is proposed to reshape the temporal–spatial distribution of NOx and …

Elevated Tropospheric Iodine Over the Central Continental United States: Is Iodine a Major Oxidant of Atmospheric Mercury?

CF Lee, T Elgiar, LM David, TY Wilmot… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Previous efforts to measure atmospheric iodine have focused on marine and coastal
regions. We report the first ground‐based tropospheric iodine monoxide (IO) radical …