ACPD Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions ACPD 1680-7375 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acpd-10-16659-2010 Potential impact of iodinated replacement compounds CF<sub>3</sub>I and CH<sub>3</sub>I on atmospheric ozone: a three-dimensional modeling study Daeok Youn 1 2 Patten K. O. 2 Wuebbles D. J. 2 Huikyo Lee 2 Chul-Whan So 3 Global Environment Center, Environment Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136–791, South Korea Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 105 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 120–749, South Korea 02 07 2010 10 7 16659 16690 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-discuss.net/10/16659/2010/acpd-10-16659-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/16659/2010/acpd-10-16659-2010.pdf

The concept of Ozone Depletion Potentials (ODPs) is extensively used in policy considerations related to concerns about the effects of various halocarbons and other gases on stratospheric ozone. Many of the recent candidate replacement compounds have atmospheric lifetimes shorter than one year in order to limit their environmental effects, especially on stratospheric ozone. Using a three-dimensional global chemistry-transport model (CTM) of the troposphere and the stratosphere, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential effects of several very short-lived iodinated substances, namely iodotrifluoromethane (CF<sub>3</sub>I) and methyl iodide (CH<sub>3</sub>I), on atmospheric ozone. Like other chemicals with extremely short lifetimes, the stratospheric halogen loading and resulting ozone effects from these compounds are strongly dependent on the location of emissions. For CF<sub>3</sub>I, a possible replacement candidate for bromotrifluoromethane (CF<sub>3</sub>Br), ODPs derived by the three-dimensional model are 0.008 with chemical lifetime of 5.03 days and 0.016 with a lifetime of 1.13 days for emissions assumed to be evenly distributed over land surfaces at mid-latitudes and the tropics, respectively. While this is the first time the ODPs have been evaluated with a three-dimensional model, these values are in good agreement with those derived previously. The model calculations suggest that tropical convection could deliver a larger portion of the gas and their breakdown products to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere if emission source is located in the tropics. The resulting ODP for CH<sub>3</sub>I, emitted from mid-latitudes, is 0.017 with lifetime of 13.59 days. The validity of our model iodine chemistry to evaluate ODPs of the iodine species is guaranteed with good qualitative agreement between the model derived distribution of background CH<sub>3</sub>I, based on global source emission fluxes from previous studies, and available observations especially in vertical profiles.

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