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Chapter 8. Environmental Chemistry

Representative Selection of CIRES Publications in Environmental Chemistry

The following is a list of representative publications selected from the CIRES publication list to illustrate the breadth of research carried out in the area of environmental chemistry. Note that some research contributions discussed above are not listed since the lead scientist was not affiliated with CIRES at the time of the contribution. Note that it is common in the field of chemistry for the senior author to be listed last if graduate and/or postdoctoral students made significant contributions to the work.

Bakwin, P. S., P. P. Tans, P. C. Novelli. 1994. Carbon monoxide budget in the northern hemisphere. Geophys. Res. Lett. 21:433-436.

Barone, S. B., M. A. Zondlo, M. A. Tolbert. 1997. A kinetic and product study of the hydrolysis of CIONO₂ on type Ia polar stratospheric cloud materials at185K. J. Phys. Chem. A 101:8643-8652.

Bartram, M. E., R.G. Windham, B. E. Koel. 1987. The molecular adsorption of nitrogen dioxide on Pt (111) studied by temperature programmed desorption and vibrational spectroscopy. Surf. Sci. 184:57-74.

Bognar, J. A., J. W. Birks. 1996. Miniaturized ultraviolet ozonesonde for atmospheric measurements. Anal. Chem. 68:3059-3062.

Bollinger, M. J., C.J. Hahn, D. D. Parrish, P. C. Murphy, D. L. Albritton, F. C. Fehsenfeld. 1984. NO_x measurements in clean continental air and analysis of the contributing meteorology. J. Geophys. Res. 89:9623-9631.

Bollinger, M. J., R. E. Sievers, D. W. Fahey, F. C. Fehsenfeld. 1983. Conversion of nitrogen dioxide, nitric acid, and n-propyl nitrate to nitric oxide by gold-catalyzed reduction with carbon monoxide. Anal. Chem. 55:1980-1986.

Borders, R. A., J. W. Birks. 1982. High-precision measurements of activation energies over small temperature intervals: Curvature in the Arrenius plot for the reaction NO + O₃ NO₂ + O₂. J. Phys. Chem. 86:3295-3302.

Brown, G. N., J. W. Birks, C. A. Koval. 1992. Development and characterization of a titanium dioxide-based semiconductor photoelectrochemical detector. Anal. Chem. 64:427-434.

Campbell, C. T., B. E. Koel. 1985. Chlorine promotion of selective ethylene oxidation over Ag(110): Kinetics and mechanism. J. Catalysis 92:272-283.

Campbell, C. T., B. E. Koel. 1987. H2S/Cu(111): A model study of sulfur poisoning of water-gas shift catalysts. Surf. Sci. 183:100-112.

Castleman, A. W. Jr., I. N. Tang. 1976/77. Kinetics of the association reaction of SO2 with the hydroxyl radical. J. Photochem. 6:349-354.

Castleman, A. W. Jr., P. M. Holland, R.G. Keesee. 1978. The properties of ion clusters and their relationship to heteromolecular nucleation. J. Chem. Phys. 68:1760-1764.

Castleman, A. W. Jr., R. G. Keesee. 1981. Nucleation and growth of stratospheric aerosols. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 9:227-249.

Conway, T. J., P. Tans, L. S. Waterman, K. W. Thoning, K. A. Masarie, R. H. Gammon. 1988. Atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements in the remote global troposphere, 1981-1984. Tellus 40B:81-115.

Crutzen, P. J., J. W. Birks. 1982. The atmosphere after a nuclear war: Twilight at noon. Ambio 11:115-125.

Donaldson, D. J., G. J. Frost, K. H. Rosenlof, A. F. Tuck, V. Vaida. 1997. Atmospheric radical production by excitation of vibrational overtones via absorption of visible light. Geophys. Res. Lett. 24(21):2651-2654.

Foster, N. S., R. D. Noble, C. A. Koval. 1993. Reversible photoreductive deposition and oxidative dissolution of copper ions in titanium dioxide aqueous suspensions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 27:350-356.

Gelderloos, D. G., K. L. Rowlen, J. W. Birks, J. P. Avery, C. G. Enke. 1986. Whole column detection chromatography: computer simulations. Anal. Chem. 58:900-903.

Gillette, D. A., W. D. Komhyr, L. S. Waterman, L. P. Steele, R. H. 1987. Gammon, The NOAA/GMCC continuous CO₂ record at the South Pole, 1975-1982. J. Geophys. Res. 92:4231-4240.

Hybertson, B. M., J. E. Repine, C. J. Beehler, K. S. Rutledge, A. F. Lagalante, R. E. Sievers. 1993. Pulmonary drug delivery of fine aerosol particles from supercritical fluids. J. Aerosol Medicine 6:275-286.

Iraci, L. T., A. M. Middlebrook, M. A. Tolbert. 1995. Laboratory studies of the formation of polar stratospheric clouds: Nitric acid condensation on thin sulfuric acid films. J. Geophys. Res. 100:20969-20977.

Kinsel, G. R., K. R. Segar, M. V. Johnston. 1987. Wavelength-dependent fragmentation in resonance-enhanced multi-photon ionization mass spectrometry. Org. Mass Spectrom. 22:627-632.

Koehler, B. G., A. M. Middlebrook, M. A. Tolbert. 1992. Characterization of model polar stratospheric cloud films using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption. J. Geophys. Res. 97:8065-8074.

Komhyr, W. D., R. H. Gammon, T. B. Harrison, L. S. Waterman, T. J. Conway, W. R. Taylor, K. W. Thoning. 1985. Global atmospheric CO2 distribution and variations from 1968-1982 NOAA/GMCC CO₂ flask sample data. J. Geophys. Res. 90:5567-5596.

Koval, C. A., S. M. Drew, R. D. Noble, J. Yu. 1990. Environmental inorganic chemistry. 1. Electrochemistry of a water-soluble iron porphyrin and its exploitation for selective removal and concentration of environmentally hazardous materials via electrochemically modulated complexation. Inorg. Chem. 29:4708-4714.

Mark, T. D., K. I. Peterson, A. W. Castleman, Jr. 1980. New gas phase inorganic ion cluster species and their atmospheric implications. Nature. 285:392-393.

Middlebrook, A. M., B. G. Koehler, L. S. McNeill, M. A. Tolbert. 1992. Formation of model polar stratospheric cloud films. Geophys. Res. Lett. 19:2417-2420.

Morris, J. B., M. V. Johnston. 1985. Multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of transition-metal and lanthanide-diketonate complexes. J. Phys. Chem. 89:5399- 5401.

Nyarady, S. A., R. M. Barkley, R. E. Sievers. 1985. Redox chemiluminescence detector: Application to gas chromatography. Anal. Chem. 57:2074-2079.

Ongstad, A. P., J. W. Birks. 1984. Studies of reactions of importance in the stratosphere. V. Rate constants for the reactions O + NO₂ NO + O₂ and O + ClO Cl + O₂ at 298 K. J. Chem. Phys. 81:3922-3930.

Paffett, M. T., C. T. Campbell, R. G. Windham, B. E. Koel. 1989. A multitechnique surface analysis study of the adsorption of H₂, CO and O² on Bi/Pt(111) surfaces. Surf. Sci. 207:274-296.

Parrish, D. D., M. Trainer, E. J. Williams, D. W. Fahey, G. Hubler, C. S. Eubank, S. C. Liu, P.C. Murphy, D.L. Albritton, F.C. Fehsenfeld. 1986. Measurements of the NO_x -O₃ photostationary state at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. J. Geophys. Res., 91:5361- 5370.

Phillips, M. P., R. E. Sievers, P. D. Goldan, W. C. Kuster, F. C. Fehsenfeld. 1979. Enhancement of electron capture detector sensitivity to nonelectron attaching compounds by addition of nitrous oxide to the carrier gas. Anal. Chem. 51:1819- 1825.

Quay, P. D., S. L. King, J. Stutsman, D. O. Wilbur, L. P. Steele, I. Fung, R. H. Gammon, T. A. Brown, G. W. Farwell, P. M. Grootes, F. H. Schmidt. 1991. Carbon isotopic composition of atmospheric CH4: Fossil and biomass burning source strengths. Global Biogeochem. Cyc. 5:25-47.

Raatz, W. E., R.C. Schnell, B. A. Bodhaine, S. J. Oltmans, R. H. Gammon. 1985. Air mass characteristics in the vicinity of Barrow, Alaska, 9-19 March 1983. Atmos. Env. 19:2127-2134.

Richard, E. C., C. T. Wickham-Jones, V. Vaida. 1989. Fourier transform ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy of jet-cooled OclO. J. Phys. Chem. 93:6346-6350.

Roberts, J. M., F. C. Fehsenfeld, D. L. Albritton, R. E. Sievers. 1983. Measurements of monoterpene hydrocarbons at Niwot Ridge, CO. J. Geophys. Res. 88(C15): 10,677-10,678.

Rowlen, K. L., J. W. Birks, K. A. Duell, J. P. Avery. 1988. Propagation of photoacoustic waves generated on liquid chromatography columns. Anal. Chem. 60:311-316.

Rowlen, K. L., K. A. Duell, J. P. Avery, J. W. Birks. 1989. Whole column detection: Application to high-performance liquid chromatography. Anal. Chem. 61:2624-2630.

S. W. Stiller, M. V. Johnston. 1985. Competitive fragmentation processes in multiphoton ionization: The role of ladder switching. J. Phys. Chem. 89:2717-2719.

Schnell, R. C. 1984. Arctic haze and the arctic gas and aerosol sampling program (AGASP). Geophys. Res. Lett. 11:361-364.

Schnell, R. C. and W. E. Raatz. 1984. Vertical and horizontal characteristics of arctic haze during AGASP: Alaskan arctic. Geophys. Res. Lett. 11:369-372.

Schnell, R. C., R. F. Pueschel, D. L.Wellman. 1982. Ice nucleus characteristics of Mount St. Helens effluents. J. Geophys. Res. 87:11109-11112.

Schnell, R. C., S.-A. Odh, L. N. Njau. 1981. Carbon dioxide measurements in tropical east African biomes. J. Geophys. Res. 86:5364-5372.

Schnell, R. C., S. C. Liu, S. J. Oltmans, R. S. Stone, D. J. Hofmann, E. G. Dutton, T. Deshler, W. T. Sturges, J. W. Harder, S. D. Sewell, M. Trainer, J. M. Harris, 1991. Decrease of summer tropospheric ozone concentrations in Antarctica. Nature 351:726-729.

Smith, J. P., S. Solomon. 1990. Atmospheric NO3 3. Sunrise disappearance and the stratospheric profile. J. Geophys. Res. 95(D9):13819-13827.

Solomon, S., G. H. Mount, R. W. Sanders, A. L. Schmeltekopf. 1987. Visible spectroscopy at McMurdo Station, Antarctica 2. Observations of OClO, J. Geophys. Res. 92:8329-8338.

Solomon, S., G. H. Mount, R. W. Sanders, R. O. Jakoubek, A. L. Schmeltekopf. 1988. Observations of the nighttime abundance of OClO in the winter stratosphere above Thule, Greenland. Science 242:550-555.

Solomon, S., J. T. Kiehl, B. J. Kerridge, E. E. Remsberg, J. M. Russell III. 1986. Evidence for nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium in the v3 mode of mesospheric ozone. J. Geophys. Res. 91:9865-9876.

Solomon, S., S. Bornmann, R. R. Garcia, R. Portmann, L. Thomason, L. R. Poole, D. Winker, M. P. McCormick. 1997. Heterogeneous chlorine chemistry in the tropopause region. J. Geophys. Res. 102:21411-21429.

Steele, L. P., P. J. Fraser, R. A. Rasmussen, M.A.K. Khalil, T. J. Conway, A. J. Crawford, R. H. Gammon, K. A. Masarie, K. W. Thoning. 1987. The global distribution of methane in the troposphere. J. Atmos. Chem. 5:125-171.

Stiller, S. W., M. V. Johnston. 1987. Sheath flow focusing in supersonic jet spectroscopy. Appl. Spectrosc. 41:1351-1357.

Stiller, S. W., M. V. Johnston. 1987. Supersonic jet spectroscopy with a capillary gas chromatographic inlet. Anal. Chem. 59:567-572.

Tans, P. P., I. Y. Fung, T. Takahashi, Observational constraints on the global atmospheric CO2 budget. Nature 247:1431-1438, 1990.

Tans, P. P., T. J. Conway, T. Nakazawa. 1989. Latitudinal distribution of the sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide derived from surface observations and an atmospheric transport model. J. Geophys. Res. 94:5151-5172.

Tisdale, R. T., A. M. Middlebrook, A. J. Prenni, M. A. Tolbert 1997. Crystallization kinetics of HNO₃/H₂O films representative of polar stratospheric clouds, J. Phys. Chem. A 101:2112-2119.

Vaida, V., D. J. Donaldson, S. J. Strickler, S. L. Stephens and J. W. Birks. 1989. A reinvestigation of the electronic spectra of ozone: condensed phase effects. J. Phys. Chem. 93:506-508.

Wenzel, T. J., R. E. Sievers. 1981. Binuclear complexes of lanthanide (III) and silver and their function as shift reagents for olefins, aromatics, and halogenated compounds. Anal. Chem. 53:393-399.

Wickham, D. T., B. E. Koel, 1988. Steady-state kinetics of the catalytic reduction of nitrogen dioxide by carbon monoxide on platinum. J. Catalysis 114:207-216.

Williams, E. J., A.Guenther, F. C. Fehsenfeld. 1992. An inventory of nitric oxide emissions from soils in the United States. J. Geophys. Res. 97:7511-7519.

Zhao, C. L., P. P. Tans, K. W. Thoning. 1997. A high precision manometric system for absolute calibrations of CO₂ in dry air. J. Geophys. Res. 101:5885-5894.

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