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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2024-3139</article-id>
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<article-title>Intended and Unintended Consequences of Atmospheric Methane Oxidation Enhancement</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Horowitz</surname>
<given-names>Hannah Marie</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6845-3917</ext-link>
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<addr-line>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Climate, Meteorology, &amp; Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA</addr-line>
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<day>05</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<volume>2024</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>31</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2024 Hannah Marie Horowitz</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Atmospheric oxidation enhancement (AOE) of methane via either tropospheric hydroxyl radicals (OH) or chlorine (Cl) radicals is being considered as a method to decrease greenhouse gas concentrations. The chemistry involved is coupled; is nonlinear; and affects air quality, other greenhouse gases, and ozone-depleting substances. Here I perform a suite of experiments in a three-dimensional (3D) atmospheric chemistry model representing different OH- and Cl-based atmospheric oxidation enhancement methods, to estimate the effectiveness of each at decreasing greenhouse gases and the impacts on air quality and stratospheric ozone. I find that iron salt aerosol may not be effective at reducing methane on a global scale, depending on the reaction mechanism employed. More work is needed to understand the kinetics of chlorine release from iron salt aerosol and the potential for bromine co-release, which further decreases effectiveness. Hydrogen peroxide&amp;ndash;based approaches can decrease global methane, but the hydrogen peroxide emissions required may be too large to be feasible. I find that limiting emissions to daytime for hydrogen peroxide&amp;ndash;based scenarios has negligible effects. All methods increase surface particulate matter (PM) pollution and in some regions lead to exceedances of annual air quality standards. Cl-based methods decrease ozone air pollution, but OH-based methods increase ozone air pollution in populated areas. While Cl-based methods can increase ozone-depleting substances, I predict minimal changes in stratospheric ozone after 1 year of deployment. The overall impacts of atmospheric oxidation enhancement methods on climate and human health involve multiple competing factors.</p>
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<funding-source>National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine</funding-source>
<award-id>PO-10000845</award-id>
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