Tropospheric nitrogen cycle

Lee. Y. N.. Senum, G. I., and Gaffney, J. S Peroxyacatyl nitrate (PAN) stability, solubility, and reactivity-implications for tropospheric nitrogen cycles and precipitation chemistry. Int. Conf. Comm. Atmos. Chem. Global Pollut., Symp. Trop. Chem. Oxford, England, 5 th, 1983. 

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Society is facing several crucial issues involving atmospheric chemistry, Species containing nitrogen are major players in each. In the troposphere, nitrogen species are catalysts in the photochemical cycles that form ozone, a major urban and rural pollutant, as well as other oxidants (references 1 and 2, and references cited therein), and they are involved in acid precipitation, both as one of the two major acids (nitric acid) and as a base (ammonia) (3, 4). In the stratosphere, where ozone acts as a shield for the... 

You mentioned the reaction between oxygen and nitrous oxide. Most environmental chemists pay attention to NO and NO2 as well as their interconversion, but little attention is paid to N2O. Does N2O have a part in the nitrogen cycle We are very curious about the fact that it is present uniformly in the troposphere at about 0.25 ppm. Is the reaction of oxygen and of direct relevance to the atmosphere ... 

Nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N2O), dinitrogen (N2), and ammonia (NH3) are constituents of the Earth s atmosphere. They play important roles in the chemistry and climate of the present-day Earth. Moreover, they are intermediates of the oceanic nitrogen cycle. In contrast to most of the other components of the oceanic nitrogen cycle, they exist as dissolved gaseous molecules. Being gases they can be transferred across the seasurface-troposphere interface. 

Fig. 2.26 The biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. A ammonia synthesis (man-made N fixation), B oxidation of ammonia (indnstrial prodnction of nitric acid), C fertilizer application, D formation of NO due to high-temperature processes, E Oxidation of N2O within the stratosphere, F oxidation of NO within the troposphere, G ammonia deposition and transformation into ammonium, H biogenic emission, I biogenic N fixation, K denitrification, L nitrification, M assimilation (biogenic formation of amino adds), N mineralization. RNH2 organic bonded N (e. g. amines).

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FIGURE 7 Compounds participating in the tropospheric nitrogen oxides cycle and their interrelations. [From Warneck, R (1999). Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere, Academic Press, San Diego.]... 

The hydroxyl radical so produced is the major oxidising species in the troposphere, and a complete picture of its chemistry holds the key to furthering progress in understanding tropospheric chemistry. The chemistry discussed in detail elsewhere, is of course very complex. To take, for example, the cycle of reactions with carbon monoxide, which may be net producers or destroyers of tropospheric ozone depending upon the concentration of oxides of nitrogen present. In the presence of NO, the cycle (16)-(20) occurs, without loss of OH or NO, whereas at low NO concentrations, the cycle (17), (18) and (21), again without loss of OH. 

It is important to note that certain cycles can lead to ozone formation this phenomenon is readily observed in the troposphere (see Box 5.4), which is rich in anthropogenic hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. In the free troposphere and lower stratosphere, the conversion of NO to NO2 by peroxy radicals (HO2 and CH3O2) produced by the oxidation of methane and carbon monoxide, followed by the photodissociation of NO2 leads to the formation of O3. The complete chains are the following (Crutzen, 1974) ... 

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