ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-12-4387-2012 Interactions of meteoric smoke particles with sulphuric acid in the Earth's stratosphere Saunders R. W. 1 Dhomse S. 2 Tian W. S. 3 Chipperfield M. P. 2 Plane J. M. C. 1 School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China 16 05 2012 12 10 4387 4398 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/12/4387/2012/acp-12-4387-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/4387/2012/acp-12-4387-2012.pdf

Nano-sized meteoric smoke particles (MSPs) with iron-magnesium silicate compositions, formed in the upper mesosphere as a result of meteoric ablation, may remove sulphuric acid from the gas-phase above 40 km and may also affect the composition and behaviour of supercooled H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>-H<sub>2</sub>O droplets in the global stratospheric aerosol (Junge) layer. <br><br> This study describes a time-resolved spectroscopic analysis of the evolution of the ferric (Fe<sup>3+</sup>) ion originating from amorphous ferrous (Fe<sup>2+</sup>)-based silicate powders dissolved in varying Wt % sulphuric acid (30–75 %) solutions over a temperature range of 223–295 K. Complete dissolution of the particles was observed under all conditions. The first-order rate coefficient for dissolution decreases at higher Wt % and lower temperature, which is consistent with the increased solution viscosity limiting diffusion of H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> to the particle surfaces. Dissolution under stratospheric conditions should take less than a week, and is much faster than the dissolution of crystalline Fe<sup>2+</sup> compounds. <br><br> The chemistry climate model UMSLIMCAT (based on the UKMO <I>Unified Model</i>) was then used to study the transport of MSPs through the middle atmosphere. A series of model experiments were performed with different uptake coefficients. Setting the concentration of 1.5 nm radius MSPs at 80 km to 3000 cm<sup>−3</sup> (based on rocket-borne charged particle measurements), the model matches the reported Wt % Fe values of 0.5–1.0 in Junge layer sulphate particles, and the MSP optical extinction between 40 and 75 km measured by a satellite-borne spectrometer, if the global meteoric input rate is about 20 tonnes per day. The model indicates that an uptake coefficient ≥0.01 is required to account for the observed two orders of magnitude depletion of H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> vapour above 40 km.

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