Abundances, emissions, and loss processes of the long-lived and potent greenhouse gas octafluorooxolane (octafluorotetrahydrofuran, c-C4F8O) in the atmosphere

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Vollmer, Martin, Bernard, François, Mitrevski, Blagoj, Steele, L. Paul, Trudinger, Cathy, Reimann, Stefan, Langenfelds, Ray, Krummel, Paul, Fraser, Paul, Etheridge, David, Curran, Mark, Burkholder, James
• Other Authors: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder -National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Center Research Separation Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT University), CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CSIRO-MAR), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Canberra (CSIRO), Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, University of Toronto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: geo; envir; Grim; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3481-2019; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02890525/file/Vollmer_ACP_2019.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02890525

International audience The first atmospheric observations of octafluorooxolane (octafluorotetrahydrofuran, c-C4F8O), a persistent greenhouse gas, are reported. In addition, a complementary laboratory study of its most likely atmospheric loss processes, its infrared absorption spectrum, and global wa...