Short-lived organic nitrates in a suburban temperate forest: an indication of efficient assimilation of reactive nitrogen by the biosphere?

Andersen, Simone T.; Sander, Rolf; Dewald, Patrick; Wüst, Laura; Seubert, Tobias; Türk, Gunther N. T. E.; Schuladen, Jan; McGillen, Max R.; Xue, Chaoyang; Mellouki, Abdelwahid; Kukui, Alexandre; Michoud, Vincent; Cirtog, Manuela; Cazaunau, Mathieu; Bauville, Astrid; Bouzidi, Hichem; Formenti, Paola; Denjean, Cyrielle; Etienne, Jean-Claude; Garrouste, Olivier; Cantrell, Christopher; Lelieveld, Jos; Crowley, John N.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5893-2025

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Short-lived organic nitrates in a suburban temperate forest: an indication of efficient assimilation of reactive nitrogen by the biosphere?

Simone T. Andersen, Rolf Sander, Patrick Dewald, Laura Wüst, Tobias Seubert, Gunther N. T. E. Türk, Jan Schuladen, Max R. McGillen, Chaoyang Xue, Abdelwahid Mellouki, Alexandre Kukui, Vincent Michoud, Manuela Cirtog, Mathieu Cazaunau, Astrid Bauville, Hichem Bouzidi, Paola Formenti, Cyrielle Denjean, Jean-Claude Etienne, Olivier Garrouste, Christopher Cantrell, Jos Lelieveld, and John N. Crowley

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Data sets

ACROSS_MPIC_RambForest_5ch-PNs-ANs_10min_L2 Simone T. Andersen and John N. Crowley https://doi.org/10.25326/706

ACROSS_MPIC_RambForest_5ch-NO2_1min_L2 Simone T. Andersen and John N. Crowley https://doi.org/10.25326/705

ACROSS_MPIC_RambForest_O3_10min_L1 John Crowley https://doi.org/10.25326/707

ACROSS_CNRM_RambForest_MTO-1MIN_L2 Cyrielle Denjean https://doi.org/10.25326/437

ACROSS_MPIC_RambForest_ KNO3_10min_L2 Patrick Dewald and John N. Crowley https://doi.org/10.25326/545

ACROSS_LPC2E_Rambforest_OH_L2 Alexandre Kukui https://doi.org/10.25326/510

ACROSS_LPC2E_Rambforest_RO2_L2 Alexandre Kukui https://doi.org/10.25326/509

ACROSS_2022_RambForest_LISA_PTRMS_VOCs_Belowcanopy_10min_20220617 - 20220723 Vincent Michoud et al. https://doi.org/10.25326/685

ACROSS_ICARE_RambForest_NO_L2 Chaoyang Xue et al. https://doi.org/10.25326/512

ACROSS_IMTNE_RambForest_Jvalues_AboveCanopy_L2 Sébastien Dusanter and Marina Jamar https://doi.org/10.25326/774

ACROSS\_Mecca\_model\_output Rolf Sander and Simone Thirstrup Andersen https://doi.org/10.17617/3.NZ3XZG

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Measurements and modelling of reactive nitrogen gases observed in a suburban temperate forest in Rambouillet, France, circa 50 km southwest of Paris in 2022 indicate that the biosphere rapidly scavenges organic nitrates of mixed biogenic and anthropogenic origin, resulting in short lifetimes for, for example, alkyl nitrates and peroxy nitrates.