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© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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05 Mar 2021
Research article |
| 05 Mar 2021
Seasonal patterns of atmospheric mercury in tropical South America as inferred by a continuous total gaseous mercury record at Chacaltaya station (5240 m) in Bolivia
Alkuin Maximilian Koenig
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université
Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France
Olivier Magand
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université
Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France
Paolo Laj
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université
Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France
Marcos Andrade
Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Instituto
de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La
Paz, Bolivia
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Isabel Moreno
Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Instituto
de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La
Paz, Bolivia
Fernando Velarde
Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Instituto
de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La
Paz, Bolivia
Grover Salvatierra
Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Instituto
de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La
Paz, Bolivia
René Gutierrez
Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Instituto
de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La
Paz, Bolivia
Luis Blacutt
Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Instituto
de Investigaciones Físicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La
Paz, Bolivia
Diego Aliaga
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System
Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,
00014, Finland
Thomas Reichler
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT 84112, USA
Karine Sellegri
Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de
Météorologie Physique, UMR 6016, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Olivier Laurent
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Michel Ramonet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Aurélien Dommergue
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université
Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France
Data sets
Widespread reduction in sun-induced fluorescence from the Amazon during the 2015/2016 El Niño G. Koren, E. van Schaik, A. C. Araújo, K. F. Boersma, A. Gärtner, L. Killaars, M. L., Kooreman, B. Kruijt, I. T. van der Laan-Luijkx, C. von Randow, N. E. Smith, and W. Peters https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0408
Short summary
The environmental cycling of atmospheric mercury, a harmful global contaminant, is still not sufficiently constrained, partly due to missing data in remote regions. Here, we address this issue by presenting 20 months of atmospheric mercury measurements, sampled in the Bolivian Andes. We observe a significant seasonal pattern, whose key features we explore. Moreover, we deduce ratios to constrain South American biomass burning mercury emissions and the mercury uptake by the Amazon rainforest.
The environmental cycling of atmospheric mercury, a harmful global contaminant, is still not...
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