Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4171-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4171-2016
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31 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 31 Mar 2016

Diurnal cycle and multi-decadal trend of formaldehyde in the remote atmosphere near 46° N

Bruno Franco, Eloise A. Marais, Benoît Bovy, Whitney Bader, Bernard Lejeune, Ginette Roland, Christian Servais, and Emmanuel Mahieu

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REanalysis of the TROpospheric Chemical Composition Over the Past 40 years Van het Bolscher, M., Pereira, J., Spessa, A., Dalsoren, S., van Nojie, T., and Szopa, S. http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_GEIA_RETRO.html

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The long-term evolution of HCHO in the remote troposphere is characterized using a 27-year time series of total columns from high-resolution FTIR solar spectra recorded at Jungfraujoch. A parametric model is used to remove the effect of the HCHO diurnal variations for improving the trend determination and the comparison with columns simulated by GEOS-Chem. Sensitivity tests are performed to identify the main drivers of the HCHO seasonal and inter-annual variations, as well as their contribution.
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