%AWang, Xuan%AJacob, Daniel%ADowns, William%AZhai, Shuting%AZhu, Lei%AShah, Viral%AHolmes, Christopher%ASherwen, Tomás%AAlexander, Becky%AEvans, Mathew%AEastham, Sebastian%ANeuman, J.%AVeres, Patrick%AKoenig, Theodore%AVolkamer, Rainer%AHuey, L.%ABannan, Thomas%APercival, Carl%ALee, Ben%AThornton, Joel%BJournal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 18 %D2021%I %JJournal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 18 %K %MOSTI ID: 10311352 %PMedium: X %TGlobal tropospheric halogen (Cl, Br, I) chemistry and its impact on oxidants %XAbstract. We present an updated mechanism for tropospheric halogen (Cl + Br + I) chemistry in the GEOS-Chem global atmospheric chemical transportmodel and apply it to investigate halogen radical cycling and implications for tropospheric oxidants. Improved representation of HOBr heterogeneouschemistry and its pH dependence in our simulation leads to less efficient recycling and mobilization of bromine radicals and enables the model toinclude mechanistic sea salt aerosol debromination without generating excessive BrO. The resulting global mean tropospheric BrO mixingratio is 0.19 ppt (parts per trillion), lower than previous versions of GEOS-Chem. Model BrO shows variable consistency and biases in comparison tosurface and aircraft observations in marine air, which are often near or below the detection limit. The model underestimates the daytimemeasurements of Cl2 and BrCl from the ATom aircraft campaign over the Pacific and Atlantic, which if correct would imply a very largemissing primary source of chlorine radicals. Model IO is highest in the marine boundary layer and uniform in the free troposphere, with a globalmean tropospheric mixing ratio of 0.08 ppt, and shows consistency with surface and aircraft observations. The modeled global meantropospheric concentration of Cl atoms is 630 cm−3, contributing 0.8 % of the global oxidation of methane, 14 % of ethane,8 % of propane, and 7 % of higher alkanes. Halogen chemistry decreases the global tropospheric burden of ozone by 11 %,NOx by 6 %, and OH by 4 %. Most of the ozone decrease is driven by iodine-catalyzed loss. The resulting GEOS-Chem ozonesimulation is unbiased in the Southern Hemisphere but too low in the Northern Hemisphere. %0Journal Article