{"id":335,"date":"2014-01-13T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-04-02T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:00:52","slug":"chlorine-gas-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/chlorine-gas-in-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlorine gas in the Arctic <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_337\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jin_inBarrow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-337\" alt=\"Georgia Tech graduate student Jin Liao calibrates insrument in Barrow, Alaska. (Credit: Greg Huey)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jin_inBarrow-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jin_inBarrow-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jin_inBarrow-448x300.jpg 448w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jin_inBarrow.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Tech graduate student Jin Liao calibrates insrument in Barrow, Alaska. (Credit: Greg Huey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Scientists measuring atmospheric gases in Alaska have detected surprisingly high levels of chlorine gas (Cl2) &#8211; up to 400 parts per trillion. \u00a0The gas likely results from a light-driven chemical reaction between ground-level ozone and chloride salts in snow and ice. The resulting gas and its breakdown products can have a profound effect on the chemistry of the arctic atmosphere.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo2046.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research article<\/a> published in <i>Nature Geoscience<\/i>\u00a0on <strong>January 12, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Greg Huey (Corresponding Author), School of Earth &amp; Atmospheric Sciences,\u00a0Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ralf Staebler (Contributing Author), Air Quality Processes Section, Environment Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists measuring atmospheric gases in Alaska have detected surprisingly high levels of chlorine gas (Cl2) &#8211; up to 400 parts per trillion. \u00a0The gas likely results from a light-driven chemical reaction between ground-level ozone and chloride salts in snow and ice. The resulting gas and its breakdown products can have a profound effect on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[185,221,869,215],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-arctic","tag-atmosphere","tag-canada-en","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jin_inBarrow.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-5p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}