Ar. Ravishankara et al., OXIDATION OF ATMOSPHERIC REDUCED SULFUR-COMPOUNDS - PERSPECTIVE FROM LABORATORY STUDIES, Philosophical transactions-Royal Society of London. Biological sciences, 352(1350), 1997, pp. 171-181
Results of laboratory experiments which address the course of the OH+D
MS (dimethyl sulphide) reaction in the atmosphere are presented. It is
shown that OH reacts via a complex sequence of reactions to produce C
H3S and other products, and argued that NO3 is unlikely to be an impor
tant oxidizer of DMS in the marine boundary layer because it is very e
fficiently taken up by water droplets. A simplified mechanism for the
oxidation of DMS in the troposphere is presented. This mechanism expla
ins some of the field observations on the end products of DMS oxidatio
n and their variations with temperature.