High-resolution measurements of elemental mercury in surface water for an improved quantitative understanding of the Baltic Sea as a source of atmospheric mercury

Kuss, Joachim; Krüger, Siegfried; Ruickoldt, Johann; Wlost, Klaus-Peter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4361-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4361-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4361-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

Research article

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29 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 29 Mar 2018

High-resolution measurements of elemental mercury in surface water for an improved quantitative understanding of the Baltic Sea as a source of atmospheric mercury

Joachim Kuss, Siegfried Krüger, Johann Ruickoldt, and Klaus-Peter Wlost

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RC1: 'Anonymous review of Kuss et al, 2017, ACPD', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Review of High-resolution measurements of elemental mercury in surface water for an improved quantitative understanding of the Baltic Sea as a source of atmospheric mercury', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jan 2018
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The emission of volatile elemental mercury by the sea is an important source of atmospheric mercury. The light-induced biotic and abiotic transformation of deposited ionic mercury to elemental mercury in surface water is highly variable. On research campaigns in the Baltic Sea a new method was applied to measure elemental mercury at high resolution. The Baltic Sea's mercury emission was subsequently calculated based on the new data and the current knowledge of mercury gas exchange parameters.