Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
DOI
10.1029/2024JD042470
Publication Title
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Volume
130
Issue
21
Pages
e2024JD042470
Abstract
Carbon dioxide isotopologues have been studied thoroughly in the troposphere. In the stratosphere, the minor oxygen CO₂ isotopologues have anomalous abundances due to their exchange reactions with isotopically fractionated ozone, differentiating them from tropospheric CO₂. Previously a model predicted that this anomalous isotopic abundance continues into the mesosphere but lacked verification from experimental observations. Here we use the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer which records infrared transmittance spectra of the Earth's limb from low Earth orbit using solar occultation. These infrared spectra provide measurements of global CO₂ isotopologue volume mixing ratios (VMRs) from the upper troposphere to the lower thermosphere. Data for the O¹³CO, ¹⁷OCO and ¹⁸OCO isotopologues are presented, including seasonal altitude‐latitude VMR distributions. The role of photolysis in the upper atmosphere for ¹⁷OCO and ¹⁸OCO fractionation has been analyzed and found to be "mass independent."
Rights
© 2025. The Authors.
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Data Availability
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Original Publication Citation
English, D., Bernath, P., & Boone, C. (2025). CO₂ isotopologues from the ACE satellite. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(21), Article e2024JD042470. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042470
ORCID
0000-0002-1255-396X (Bernath)
Repository Citation
English, D.; Bernath, P.; and Boone, C., "CO₂ Isotopologues From the ACE Satellite" (2025). Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Publications. 377.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/chemistry_fac_pubs/377
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