Climate and Tropospheric Oxidizing Capacity

I read a Climate.Gov blog post attributed to the Climate.Gov Staff. You can access it HERE.  I spent maybe four hours researching the topic separate from the time it takes to publish this article. I know some chemistry both from college and my work in the mining industry but this was intense. There is a paper written about this topic which you can pay to access HERE. I rarely write about things where the reader can not access the full article without paying for it but I am making an exception today for five reasons:

• Climate.gov thought it was important to talk about this when they could not provide the underlying article to their readers.  However, I was able to access and include the Abstract in this article.
• The hydroxyl radical plays a part in cleaning the atmosphere of pollutants including Greenhouse Gases.
• If you search “Hydroxyl” you will find a lot of literature on this topic.
• This dinosaur, your author, was intrigued with what is Hydroxyl and why the symbol was OH and not HO.
• I am interested in Weather Modification to increase precipitation and I thought I needed to know about this.