Variability in gaseous elemental mercury at Villum Research Station, Station Nord, in North Greenland from 1999 to 2017

Skov, Henrik; Hjorth, Jens; Nordstrøm, Claus; Jensen, Bjarne; Christoffersen, Christel; Bech Poulsen, Maria; Baldtzer Liisberg, Jesper; Beddows, David; Dall'Osto, Manuel; Christensen, Jesper Heile

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13253-2020

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Variability in gaseous elemental mercury at Villum Research Station, Station Nord, in North Greenland from 1999 to 2017

Henrik Skov, Jens Hjorth, Claus Nordstrøm, Bjarne Jensen, Christel Christoffersen, Maria Bech Poulsen, Jesper Baldtzer Liisberg, David Beddows, Manuel Dall'Osto, and Jesper Heile Christensen

Data sets

AMAP CORE - ATMOSPHERIC PART from 1990 to 2015 H. Skov, A. Massling, I. E. Nielsen, C. Nordstrøm, R. Bossi, K. Vorkamp, J. Christensen, M. M. Larsen, K. M. Hansen, J. B. Liisberg, and M. B. Poulsen http://dce2.au.dk/pub/TR101.pdf

Short summary

Mercury is toxic in all its forms. It bioaccumulates in food webs, is ubiquitous in the atmosphere, and atmospheric transport is an important source for this element in the Arctic. Measurements of gaseous elemental mercury have been carried out at the Villum Research Station at Station Nord in northern Greenland since 1999. The measurements are compared with model results from the Danish Eulerian Hemispheric Model. In this way, the dynamics of mercury are investigated.