On the O2(ν′) + O2(ν′) atmospheric reaction: a quasiclassical trajectory study Original Research Article

We report a theoretical study of the title four-atom atmospheric reaction for a wide range of initial vibrational quantum numbers (ν′, ν″). All calculations have employed the quasiclassical trajectory method, and a realistic potential energy surface obtained by using the double many-body expansion (DMBE) method. The implications of the results on a recently proposed hypothesis to explain the ‘ozone deficit’ problem are tentatively assessed.