The global distribution of O3 on mars |
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| Authors: | TY Kong MB McElroy |
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| Institution: | Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 0218, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Models are developed to describe the photochemistry of ozone on Mars. Catalytic reactions involving H, OH and HO2 play a major role at low latitudes where they ensure a vertical column density for O3 of less than 2 × 10?4 cm atm. The source for odd hydrogen (H + OH + HO2) is relatively smaller at high latitudes in winter due to the small concentrations of H2O present there at that time. Odd hydrogen is also efficiently removed from the high-latitude winter atmosphere by condensation of H2O2. The role of catalytic chemistry is reduced accordingly and the vertical column density of O3 may be as large as 5.7 × 10?3 cm atm in accord with earlier observations carried out by Barth and co-workers with instruments on Mariner 9. |
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