SO2 photoexcitation mechanism links mass-independent sulfur isotopic fractionation in cryospheric sulfate to climate impacting volcanism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17656-17661

  Hattori, Shohei ^a,b   Schmidt, Johan A ^c   Johnson, Matthew S ^c   Danielache, Sebastian O ^b,d,e   Yamada, Akinori ^f   Ueno, Yuichiro ^b,e   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a,b  

^a Departments of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences ^*  (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANO;

STRATOSPHERIC VOLCANIC ERUPTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84887107424     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213153110     Document Type: Article

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