ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-10-9953-2010 Do vibrationally excited OH molecules affect middle and upper atmospheric chemistry? von Clarmann T. 1 Hase F. 1 Funke B. 2 López-Puertas M. 2 Orphal J. 1 Sinnhuber M. 1 3 Stiller G. P. 1 Winkler H. 3 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany Instituto de Astrof{í}sica de Andaluc{í}a, CSIC, Granada, Spain Bremen University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany 20 10 2010 10 20 9953 9964 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/9953/2010/acp-10-9953-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/9953/2010/acp-10-9953-2010.pdf

Except for a few reactions involving electronically excited molecular or atomic oxygen or nitrogen, atmospheric chemistry modelling usually assumes that the temperature dependence of reaction rates is characterized by Arrhenius' law involving kinetic temperatures. It is known, however, that in the upper atmosphere the vibrational temperatures may exceed the kinetic temperatures by several hundreds of Kelvins. This excess energy has an impact on the reaction rates. We have used upper atmospheric OH populations and reaction rate coefficients for OH(<i>v</i>=0...9)+O<sub>3</sub> and OH(<i>v</i>=0...9)+O to estimate the effective (i.e. population weighted) reaction rates for various atmospheric conditions. We have found that the effective rate coefficient for OH(<i>v</i>=0...9)+O<sub>3</sub> can be larger by a factor of up to 1470 than that involving OH in its vibrational ground state only. At altitudes where vibrationally excited states of OH are highly populated, the OH reaction is a minor sink of O<sub>x</sub> and O<sub>3</sub> compared to other reactions involving, e.g., atomic oxygen. Thus the impact of vibrationally excited OH on the ozone or O<sub>x</sub> sink remains small. Among quiescent atmospheres under investigation, the largest while still small (less than 0.1%) effect was found for the polar winter upper stratosphere and mesosphere. The contribution of the reaction of vibrationally excited OH with ozone to the OH sink is largest in the upper polar winter stratosphere (up to 4%), while its effect on the HO<sub>2</sub> source is larger in the lower thermosphere (up to 1.5% for polar winter and 2.5% for midlatitude night conditions). For OH(<i>v</i>=0...9)+O the effective rate coefficients are lower by up to 11% than those involving OH in its vibrational ground state. The effects on the odd oxygen sink are negative and can reach −3% (midlatitudinal nighttime lowermost thermosphere), i.e. neglecting vibrational excitation overestimates the odd oxygen sink. The OH sink is overestimated by up to 10%. After a solar proton event, when upper atmospheric OH can be enhanced by an order of magnitude, the excess relative odd oxygen sink by consideration of vibrational excitation in the reaction of OH(<i>v</i>=0...9)+O<sub>3</sub> is estimated at up to 0.2%, and the OH sink by OH(<i>v</i>=0...9)+O can be reduced by 12% in the thermosphere by vibrational excitation.

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