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Parametric studies on ozone photochemistry

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A numerical experiment was made in order to investigate whether it is possible to obtain agreement between photochemical theory and observation of ozone in a pure oxygen (i.e. a dry) atmosphere at levels where near-equilibrium can be expected. Considerable but not completely unreasonable adjustment of some of the uncertain photochemical parameters (reaction rates and their temperature dependence, solar spectral energy distribution) from their presently most probable value is found to be needed.

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Mit einem numerischen Experiment wurde untersucht, ob es möglich ist, Übereinstimmung zwischen photochemischer Theorie und Beobachtung in einer reinen Sauerstoff-(d.h. wasserdampffreien) Atmosphäre zu erreichen. Es zeigt sich, dass eine im Vergleich zu den gegenwärtigen Annahmen beträchtliche, aber nicht völlig unvernünftige Anpassung einiger noch unsicheren photochemischen Parameter notwendig ist. (Reaktionskonstanten und ihre Temperaturabhängigkeit, spektrale Energieverteilung in der extraterrestrischen Sonnenstrahlung.)

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  1. Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

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Dütsch, H.U., Ginsburg, T. Parametric studies on ozone photochemistry. PAGEOPH 72, 204–213 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875705

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