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Title High Gas-Phase Methanesulfonic Acid Production in the OH-Initiated Oxidation of Dimethyl Sulfide at Low Temperatures
Author(s) Shen, Jiali ; Scholz, Wiebke ; He, Xu-Cheng ; Zhou, Putian ; Marie, Guillaume ; Wang, Mingyi ; Marten, Ruby ; Surdu, Mihnea ; Rörup, Birte ; Baalbaki, Rima ; Amorim, Antonio ; Ataei, Farnoush ; Bell, David M ; Bertozzi, Barbara ; Brasseur, Zoé ; Caudillo, Lucía ; Chen, Dexian ; Chu, Biwu ; Dada, Lubna ; Duplissy, Jonathan ; Finkenzeller, Henning ; Granzin, Manuel ; Guida, Roberto (CERN) ; Heinritzi, Martin ; Hofbauer, Victoria ; Iyer, Siddharth ; Kemppainen, Deniz ; Kong, Weimeng ; Krechmer, Jordan E ; Kürten, Andreas ; Lamkaddam, Houssni ; Lee, Chuan Ping ; Lopez, Brandon ; Mahfouz, Naser G A ; Manninen, Hanna E (CERN) ; Massabò, Dario ; Mauldin, Roy L ; Mentler, Bernhard ; Müller, Tatjana ; Pfeifer, Joschka (CERN) ; Philippov, Maxim ; Piedehierro, Ana A ; Roldin, Pontus ; Schobesberger, Siegfried ; Simon, Mario ; Stolzenburg, Dominik ; Tham, Yee Jun ; Tomé, António ; Umo, Nsikanabasi Silas ; Wang, Dongyu ; Wang, Yonghong ; Weber, Stefan K (CERN) ; Welti, André ; Wollesen de Jonge, Robin ; Wu, Yusheng ; Zauner-Wieczorek, Marcel ; Zust, Felix ; Baltensperger, Urs ; Curtius, Joachim ; Flagan, Richard C ; Hansel, Armin ; Möhler, Ottmar ; Petäjä, Tuukka ; Volkamer, Rainer ; Kulmala, Markku ; Lehtipalo, Katrianne ; Rissanen, Matti ; Kirkby, Jasper (CERN) ; El-Haddad, Imad ; Bianchi, Federico ; Sipilä, Mikko ; Donahue, Neil M ; Worsnop, Douglas R
Publication 2022
Number of pages 14
In: Environ. Sci. Technol. 56 (2022) 13931-13944
DOI 10.1021/acs.est.2c05154
Subject category Astrophysics and Astronomy
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CLOUD
Abstract Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) influences climate via cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation resulting from its oxidation products (mainly methanesulfonic acid, MSA, and sulfuric acid, H2SO4). Despite their importance, accurate prediction of MSA and H2SO4 from DMS oxidation remains challenging. With comprehensive experiments carried out in the Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD) chamber at CERN, we show that decreasing the temperature from +25 to −10 °C enhances the gas-phase MSA production by an order of magnitude from OH-initiated DMS oxidation, while H2SO4 production is modestly affected. This leads to a gas-phase H2SO4-to-MSA ratio (H2SO4/MSA) smaller than one at low temperatures, consistent with field observations in polar regions. With an updated DMS oxidation mechanism, we find that methanesulfinic acid, CH3S(O)OH, MSIA, forms large amounts of MSA. Overall, our results reveal that MSA yields are a factor of 2−10 higher than those predicted by the widely used Master Chemical Mechanism (MCMv3.3.1), and the NOx effect is less significant than that of temperature. Our updated mechanism explains the high MSA production rates observed in field observations, especially at low temperatures, thus, substantiating the greater importance of MSA in the natural sulfur cycle and natural CCN formation. Our mechanism will improve the interpretation of present-day and historical gas-phase H2SO4/MSA measurements.
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