Multi-year monitoring of atmospheric total gaseous mercury at a remote high-altitude site (Nam Co, 4730&thinsp;m&thinsp;a.s.l.)  in the inland Tibetan Plateau region

Yin, Xiufeng; Kang, Shichang; de Foy, Benjamin; Ma, Yaoming; Tong, Yindong; Zhang, Wei; Wang, Xuejun; Zhang, Guoshuai; Zhang, Qianggong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10557-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10557-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10557-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 14

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24 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 24 Jul 2018

Multi-year monitoring of atmospheric total gaseous mercury at a remote high-altitude site (Nam Co, 4730 m a.s.l.) in the inland Tibetan Plateau region

Xiufeng Yin, Shichang Kang, Benjamin de Foy, Yaoming Ma, Yindong Tong, Wei Zhang, Xuejun Wang, Guoshuai Zhang, and Qianggong Zhang

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RC1: 'Review of Long-term monitoring of atmospheric TGM at a remote high altitude site (Nam Co, 4730 m a.s.l.) in the inland Tibetan Plateau', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Response to R1', Qianggong ZHANG, 14 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Response to R2', Qianggong ZHANG, 14 Jun 2018
RC3: 'Referee #2 comments: missing references', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Apr 2018
RC4: 'Reviewer#3', Anonymous Referee #3, 17 Apr 2018
- AC3: 'Response to R3', Qianggong ZHANG, 14 Jun 2018

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Total gaseous mercury concentrations were measured at Nam Co Station on the inland Tibetan Plateau for ~ 3 years. The mean concentration of TGM during the entire monitoring period was 1.33 ± 0.24 ng^m-3, ranking it the lowest in China and indicating the pristine atmospheric environment of the inland Tibetan Plateau. Variation of TGM at Nam Co was affected by regional surface reemission, vertical mixing and long-range transported atmospheric mercury, which was associated with the Indian monsoon.