Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 11729–11738, 2018 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11729-2018 © Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Toward resolving the budget discrepancy of ozone-depleting carbon tetrachloride (CCl4): an analysis of top-down emissions from China Sunyoung Park1,2, Shanlan Li2,3, Jens Mühle4, Simon O’Doherty5, Ray F. Weiss4, Xuekun Fang6, Stefan Reimann7, and Ronald G. Prinn6 1Department of Oceanography Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea 2Kyungpook Institute of Oceanography Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea 3Climate Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Seogwipo, Korea 4Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 5School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 6Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 7Empa, Laboratory for Air Pollution and Environmental Technology, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland Correspondence: Sunyoung Park (
[email protected]) Received: 1 March 2018 – Discussion started: 12 March 2018 Revised: 17 July 2018 – Accepted: 22 July 2018 – Published: 17 August 2018 Abstract. Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) is a first-generation and better regulation strategies to reduce evaporative losses ozone-depleting substance, and its emissive use and produc- of CCl4 occurring at the factory and/or process levels. tion were globally banned by the Montreal Protocol with a 2010 phase-out; however, production and consumption for non-dispersive use as a chemical feedstock and as a process 1 Introduction agent are still allowed. This study uses the high frequency and magnitude of CCl pollution events from an 8-year real- 4 Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) is a long-lived greenhouse gas time atmospheric measurement record obtained at Gosan sta- and an ozone-depleting substance.