Measurement of heterogeneous chemical processes relevant to aerosol surfaces and trace gases active in the marine environment. Progress report, February 1994--January 1995

Biogenically produced reduced sulfur compounds from the marine environment, deliver a sulfur burden to the atmosphere which is about half as large as that due to sulfur oxides produced by fossil fuel combustion. The multiphase chemical processes for these species must be understood in order to evaluate the relative roles of biogenic and combustion produced sulfur oxides over the oceans. The aim of the studies funded by the subject DOE grant is to measure parameters governing the heterogeneous chemistry of the species occurring in the marine environment. During the past year, uptake studies for the sulfur species MSA, DMSO, DMSO{sub 2}, DMS, OCS, CS{sub 2}, H{sub 2}S, and CH{sub 3}SH have been finalized. Studies of the reactive uptake of Cl{sub 2} and Br{sub 2} by Br{sup -} and I{sup -} solutions as a function of temperature have been completed. The uptake of O{sub 3} by aqueous NaI solutions has also been studied for the purpose of comparison. We have begun co-deposition studies and have obtained some preliminary results for the codeposition with ozone of DMS, DMSO, DMSO{sub 2} and MSA. For the next phase of the work, a new horizontal bubbler apparatus was designed and built and construction to improve the detection sensitivity of the apparatuses was begun. Altogether during 1994, 8 articles have been accepted for publication and 2 Ph.D. dissertations have been submitted and approved