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Research article
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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
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Eloise A. Marais
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Benoît Bovy
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Whitney Bader
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Bernard Lejeune
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Ginette Roland
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Christian Servais
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Emmanuel Mahieu
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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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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