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THERE is a marked decrease (by one or two orders of magnitude) in the CO mixing ratio from the upper troposphere to the lower stratosphere1. It has been suggested by Seiler and Junge, and by Pressman and Warneck, that recombination with OH provides an effective sink in the stratosphere (CACR Symposium, Heidelberg, September 1969). This note gives a quantitative justification for this suggestion.
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Seiler, W., and Junge, C., Tellus, 21, No. 3 (1969).
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HESSTVEDT, E. Vertical Distribution of CO near the Tropopause. Nature 225, 50 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225050a0
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