Abundance and sources of atmospheric halocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean

Schoenenberger, Fabian; Henne, Stephan; Hill, Matthias; Vollmer, Martin K.; Kouvarakis, Giorgos; Mihalopoulos, Nikolaos; O'Doherty, Simon; Maione, Michela; Emmenegger, Lukas; Peter, Thomas; Reimann, Stefan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4069-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4069-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4069-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

Research article

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23 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 23 Mar 2018

Abundance and sources of atmospheric halocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean

Fabian Schoenenberger, Stephan Henne, Matthias Hill, Martin K. Vollmer, Giorgos Kouvarakis, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, Simon O'Doherty, Michela Maione, Lukas Emmenegger, Thomas Peter, and Stefan Reimann

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4069-2018-supplement

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Atmospheric inversion results: sources of atmospheric halocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean S. Henne, F. Schönenberger, and S. Reimann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1194645

FLEPXART backward dispersion simulations S. Henne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1194037

R packages for atmospheric emission inversion S. Henne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1194642

Atmospheric Halocarbon Observations at Finokalia, Crete, Greece S. Reimann, F. Schönenberger, M. K. Vollmer, and S. Henne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1186221

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Anthropogenic halocarbon emissions contribute to stratospheric ozone depletion and global warming. We measured atmospheric halocarbons for 6 months on Crete to extend the coverage of the existing observation network to the Eastern Mediterranean. The derived emission estimates showed a contribution of 16.8 % (13.6–23.3 %) and 53.2 % (38.1–84.2 %) of this region to the total HFC and HCFC emissions of the analyzed European domain and a reduction of the underlying uncertainties by 40–80 %.