Fractionation of N2O isotopomers in the stratosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 106, Issue D7, 2001, Pages 7515-7522

  Toyoda, Sakaè ^a,b   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a,b   Urabe, Taichiro ^a   Aoki, Shuji ^c   Nakazawa, Takakiyo ^c   Sugawara, Satoshi ^d   Honda, Hideyuki ^e  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROUS OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; STRATOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

(NORTH); JAPAN;

EID: 0034952612     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD900680     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Boering, K. A., S. C. Wofsy, B. C. Daube, H. R. Schneider, M. Loewenstein, J. R. Podolske, and T. J. Conway. Stratospheric mean ages and transport rates from observations of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, Science, 274, 1340-1343, 1996.
2. Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M., and T. Röckmann, Mass spectrometry of the intramolecular nitrogen isotope distribution of environmental nitrous oxide using fragment-ion analysis, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 13, 2028-2033, 1999.
3. 16O ratios in atmospheric nitrous oxide: A mass-independent anomaly, Science, 278, 1774-1776, 1997.
4. 16O ratios in stratospheric nitrous oxide: A mass independent anomaly, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 16,171-16,175, 1999.
5. Codispoti, L. A.., J. W. Elkins, T. Yoshinari, G. E. Friederich, C. M. Sakamoto, and T. T. Packard. On the nitrous oxide flux from productive regions that contain low oxygen waters, in Oceanography of the Indian Ocean, edited by B. N. Desai, pp. 271-284, Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 1992.
6. Crutzen, P. J., The influence of nitrogen oxides on the atmospheric ozone content, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 96, 320-325, 1970.
7. DeMore, W. B., S. P. Sander, D. M. Golden, R. F. Hampson, M. J. Kurylo, C. J. Howard, A. R. Ravishankara, C. E. Kolb, and M. J. Molina, Chemical kinetics and photochemical data for use in stratospheric modeling, Eval. 12, JPL Publ. 97-4, 1997.
8. Griffith, D. W. T., G. C. Toon, B. Sen, J.-F. Blavier, and R. A. Toth, Vertical profiles of nitrous oxide isotopomer fractionation measured in the stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2485-2488, 2000.
9. 6 dated stratospheric air, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1099-1102, 1996.
10. Holton, J. R., P. H. Haynes, M. F., McIntyre, A. R. Douglass, R. B. Rood, and L. Pfister, Stratosphere-troposphere exchange, Rev. Geophys., 33, 403-439, 1995.
11. Honda, H., S. Aoki, T. Nakazawa, S. Morimoto, and N. Yajima, Cryogenic air sampling system for measurements of the concentrations of stratospheric trace gases and their isotopic ratios over Antarctica, J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 48, 1145-1155, 1996.
12. 2, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 93, 2657-2663, 1997.
13. 17O) fractionation factors in the stratospheric sink reactions of nitrous oxide, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 16801-16804, 1995.
14. Khalil, M. A. K., and R. A. Rasmussen, The global sources of nitrous oxide, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 14,651-14,660, 1992.
15. Kim, K.-R., and H. Craig, Nitrogen-15 and oxygen-18 characteristics of nitrous oxide: A global perspective. Science, 262, 1855-1857, 1993.
16. 2O budget: A retrospective analysis 1500-1994, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 13, 1-8, 1999.
17. Machida, T., T. Nakazawa, Y. Fujii, S. Aoki, and O. Watanabe, Increase in the atmospheric nitrous oxide concentration during the last 250 years, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2921-2924, 1995.
18. Makide, Y. et al., Profiles of stratospheric halocarbons obtained through analysis of air samples collected by balloon-borne sampler in 1999 (in Japanese), in Proceedings of Balloon Symposium, pp. 115-118, Inst. of Space and Astron. Sci., Sagamihara, 1999.
19. 2O. Global Biogeochem. Cycles. 10, 651-659, 1996.
20. 2, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 10,543-10,561, 1993.
21. Moore, H., Isotopic measurement of atmospheric nitrogen compounds, Tellus, 26, 169-174, 1974.
22. Nakazawa, T., T. Machida, S. Sugawara, S. Murayama, S. Morimoto, and G. Hashida, Measurements of the stratospheric carbon dioxide concentration over Japan using a balloon-borne cryogenic sampler, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 1229-1232, 1995.
23. 3, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 21,527-21,536, 1997.
24. Prather, M., R. Derwent, D. Ehhalt, P. Fraser, E. Sanhueza, and X. Zhou, Other trace gases and atmospheric chemistry, in Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and an Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios, edited by J. T. Houghton et al., pp. 73-126, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1994.
25. Rahn, T., and M. Wahlen, Stable isotope enrichment in stratospheric nitrous oxide, Science, 278, 1776-1778, 1997.
26. Rahn, T., and M. Wahlen, A reassessment of the global isotopic budget of atmospheric nitrous oxide, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 14, 537-543, 2000.
27. 2O, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4489-4492, 1998.
28. 18O in the UV photolysis of nitrous oxide, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1399-1402, 2000.
29. Thompson, T. M. et al., Nitrous oxide and halocarbon division, in Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory No. 22: Summary Report 1993, edited by J. T. Peterson and R. M. Rosson, pp. 72-91, NOAA Environ. Res. Lab., Boulder, Colo., 1994.
30. Toyoda, S., and N. Yoshida, Determination of nitrogen isotopomers of nitrous oxide on a modified isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Anal. Chem., 71, 4711-4718, 1999.
31. 2O determined by high resolution FTIR spectroscopy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27,2489-2492, 2000.
32. 2, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 517-520, 1998.
33. 2O, Geochem. J., 17, 231-239, 1983.
34. 2O isotopomers, Nature, 405, 330-334, 2000.
35. Yung, Y. L., and C. E. Miller, Isotopic fractionation of stratospheric nitrous oxide, Science, 278, 1778-1780, 1997.
36. 16O during photolysis at 213 nm, Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 2481-2484, 2000.
37. Zipf, E. C., and S. S. Prasad, Experimental evidence that excited ozone is a source of nitrous oxide, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4333-4336, 1998.