Atmospheric mercury in the Southern Hemisphere – Part 1: Trend and inter-annual variations in atmospheric mercury at Cape Point, South Africa, in 2007–2017, and on Amsterdam Island in 2012–2017

Slemr, Franz; Martin, Lynwill; Labuschagne, Casper; Mkololo, Thumeka; Angot, Hélène; Magand, Olivier; Dommergue, Aurélien; Garat, Philippe; Ramonet, Michel; Bieser, Johannes

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7683-2020

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02 Jul 2020

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Atmospheric mercury in the Southern Hemisphere – Part 1: Trend and inter-annual variations in atmospheric mercury at Cape Point, South Africa, in 2007–2017, and on Amsterdam Island in 2012–2017

Franz Slemr, Lynwill Martin, Casper Labuschagne, Thumeka Mkololo, Hélène Angot, Olivier Magand, Aurélien Dommergue, Philippe Garat, Michel Ramonet, and Johannes Bieser

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7683-2020-supplement

Data sets

Cape Point data GMOS (Global Mercury observation System) http://sdi.iia.cnr.it/geoint/publicpage/GMOS/gmos_historical.zul

Amsterdam Island GEM data GMOS (Global Mercury observation System) https://gmos.aeris-data.fr/catalogue/

Short summary

Monitoring of atmospheric mercury (Hg) concentrations is an important part of the effectiveness evaluation of the Minamata Convention on Hg. Hg concentrations in 2012–2017 at Cape Point, South Africa, and at Amsterdam Island in the remote Indian Ocean are comparable, and no trend or a slightly downward trend was observed at both stations. Over the 2007–2017 period an upward trend was observed at CPT which was driven mainly by the 2007–2014 data. The trend and its change are discussed.