Abstract
Methyl Bromide, CH{sub 3}Br, is the major organobromine species in the lower atmosphere and is a primary source of bromine in the stratosphere. It has a lifetime of 1.3 years. The IR methyl bromide spectra in the atmospheric window region, 7--13{mu}, was determined using a well tested Coriolis resonance and {ell}-doubling (and {ell}-resonance) computational system. A radiative forcing value of 0.00493 W/m{sup 2}/ppbv was obtained for CH{sub 3}Br and is approximately linear in the background abundance. This value is about 2 percent of the forcing of CFC-11 and about 278 times the forcing of C0{sub 2}, on a per molecule basis. The radiative forcing calculation is used to estimate the global warming potential (GWP) of CH{sub 3}Br. The results give GWPs for CH{sub 3}Br of the order of 13 for an integration period of 20 years and 4 for an integration period of 100 years (assuming C0{sub 2} = 1, following IPCC [1994]). While CH{sub 3}Br has a GWP which is approximately 25 percent of the GWP of CH{sub 4}, the current emission rates are too low to cause serious atmospheric greenhouse heating effects at this time.
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