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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1449-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1449-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Seasonal variation and origins of volatile organic compounds observed during 2 years at a western Mediterranean remote background site (Ersa, Cape Corsica)
Cécile Debevec
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
SAGE – Département Sciences de l'Atmosphère et Génie de l'Environnement, IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, 59000 Lille, France
Stéphane Sauvage
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
SAGE – Département Sciences de l'Atmosphère et Génie de l'Environnement, IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, 59000 Lille, France
Valérie Gros
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE),
Unité Mixte CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, IPSL, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette,
91190, France
Thérèse Salameh
SAGE – Département Sciences de l'Atmosphère et Génie de l'Environnement, IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, 59000 Lille, France
Jean Sciare
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE),
Unité Mixte CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, IPSL, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette,
91190, France
Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre, the Cyprus Institute (CyI),
Nicosia, 2121, Cyprus
François Dulac
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE),
Unité Mixte CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, IPSL, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette,
91190, France
Nadine Locoge
SAGE – Département Sciences de l'Atmosphère et Génie de l'Environnement, IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, 59000 Lille, France
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This study provides a better characterization of the seasonal variations in VOC sources impacting the western Mediterranean region, based on a comprehensive chemical composition measured over 25 months at a representative receptor site (Ersa) and by determining factors controlling their temporal variations. Some insights into dominant drivers for VOC concentration variations in Europe are also provided, built on comparisons of Ersa observations with the concomitant ones of 17 European sites.
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