https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-222 Preprint. Discussion started: 30 April 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. 1 Trifluoroacetic acid deposition from emissions of HFO-1234yf in India, China, 2 and the Middle East 3 4 Liji M. David*1,2, Mary Barth*3, Lena Höglund-Isaksson4, Pallav Purohit4, Guus J. M. Velders5,6, 5 Sam Glaser1,7, and Akkihebbal. R. Ravishankara*1,2 6 7 1Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA 8 2Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA 9 3Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for 10 Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 11 4Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 12 (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, 2361, Laxenburg, Austria 13 5National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), PO Box 1, 3720 BA 14 Bilthoven, The Netherlands 15 6Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 16 7Currently at Tufts University, Medford, MA 17 18 Address correspondence to:
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[email protected] 20 21 Key points 22 1. The expected concentrations of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) from the degradation of HFO- 23 1234 yf (CF3CF=CH2) emitted now and in the future by India, China, and the Middle East 24 were calculated using GEOS-Chem and WRF-Chem models. 25 2. We conclude that, with the current knowledge of the effects of TFA on humans and 26 ecosystems, the projected emissions through 2040 would not be detrimental.