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30 Mar 2016
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| 30 Mar 2016
Tropospheric mercury vertical profiles between 500 and 10 000 m in central Europe
Andreas Weigelt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Institute of Coastal Research,
Geesthacht, Germany
now at Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Hamburg,
Germany
Ralf Ebinghaus
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Institute of Coastal Research,
Geesthacht, Germany
Nicola Pirrone
National Research Council (CNR), Institute of
Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende, Italy
Johannes Bieser
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Institute of Coastal Research,
Geesthacht, Germany
Deutsches Zentrum
für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Jan Bödewadt
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Institute of Coastal Research,
Geesthacht, Germany
Giulio Esposito
National Research Council (CNR), Institute of
Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende, Italy
Franz Slemr
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry
(MPI-C), Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Peter F. J. van Velthoven
Royal
Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Chemistry and Climate Division,
De Bilt, the Netherlands
Andreas Zahn
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Helmut Ziereis
Deutsches Zentrum
für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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We show the first mercury profile measurements over Europe since 1996. Besides gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) and total gaseous mercury (TGM), the gases CO, SO2, NOx, and O3 were measured from aboard a research aircraft over four European locations. Compared to the boundary layer, the concentration of GEM and TGM in the free troposphere was 10–30% lower. Inside the individual layers no vertical gradient was apparent. Combined with CARIBIC data, a unique profile from 0.4 to 10.5 km is provided.
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