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Articles | Volume 24, issue 20
Articles | Volume 24, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11883-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11883-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 20
Research article
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24 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 24 Oct 2024

Investigating carbonyl compounds above the Amazon rainforest using a proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) with NO+ chemical ionization

Akima Ringsdorf, Achim Edtbauer, Bruna Holanda, Christopher Poehlker, Marta O. Sá, Alessandro Araújo, Jürgen Kesselmeier, Jos Lelieveld, and Jonathan Williams

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We show the average height distribution of separately observed aldehydes and ketones over a day and discuss their rainforest-specific sources and sinks as well as their seasonal changes above the Amazon. Ketones have much longer atmospheric lifetimes than aldehydes and thus different implications for atmospheric chemistry. However, they are commonly observed together, which we overcome by measuring with a NO+ chemical ionization mass spectrometer for the first time in the Amazon rainforest.
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