TY - JOUR

T1 - A feasibility study of the use of reactive tracers to determine outdoor daytime OH radical concentrations within the urban environment.

AU - White, Iain R

AU - Martin, Damien

AU - Petersson, K F

AU - Henshaw, Stephen J

AU - Nickless, Graham

AU - Lloyd-Jones, Guy C

AU - Clemitshaw, Kevin C

AU - Shallcross, Dudley E

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Using a specifically designed chemical tracer to indirectly measure local atmospherichydroxyl radical (OH) concentrations is a very appealing concept. Such a tracer will provide information on the amount of OH a tracer encounters, as it moves through the urban environment and provide a stringent test of models. However, to date an outdoor experiment such as this has not been conducted. This article discusses the reasons why this is so andexamines the feasibility of using tracers to measure integrated urban OH levels over short (≤1 km) distances.

AB - Using a specifically designed chemical tracer to indirectly measure local atmospherichydroxyl radical (OH) concentrations is a very appealing concept. Such a tracer will provide information on the amount of OH a tracer encounters, as it moves through the urban environment and provide a stringent test of models. However, to date an outdoor experiment such as this has not been conducted. This article discusses the reasons why this is so andexamines the feasibility of using tracers to measure integrated urban OH levels over short (≤1 km) distances.

U2 - 10.1002/asl2.487

DO - 10.1002/asl2.487

M3 - Article

VL - 15

SP - 178

EP - 185

JO - Atmospheric Science Letters

JF - Atmospheric Science Letters

M1 - DOI: 10.1002/asl2.487

ER -