Hemispheric average Cl atom concentration
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Methane is a significant atmospheric trace gas in the context of greenhouse warming and climate change. The dominant sink of atmospheric methane is the hydroxyl radical (OH). Recently, a mechanism for production of chlorine radicals (Cl) in the marine boundary layer (MBL) via bromine autocatalysis has been proposed. The importance 5 of this mechanism in producing a methane sink is not clear at present because of the difficulty of in-situ direct measurement of Cl. However, the large kinetic isotope effect of Cl compared with OH produces a large fractionation of 13 C compared with 12 C in atmospheric methane. This property can be used to estimate the likely size of the methane sink attributable to MBL Cl. By taking account of the mixing of MBL air into 10 the free troposphere, we estimate that the global methane sink due to reaction with Cl atoms in the MBL could be as large as 19 Tg yr −1 , or about 3.3% of the total CH 4 sink.
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