Global Mercury Observation System – Atmosphere (GMOS-A)
Global Mercury Observation System – Atmosphere (GMOS-A)
Editor(s): N. Pirrone, F. Sprovieri, and R. Ebinghaus
This Special Issue collects results on atmospheric mercury measurements and modelling applications obtained during the EU-funded Project "Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS)" within the 7th framework program. It summarizes original research work about sources, chemistry, transport, and deposition of atmospheric Hg carried out between 2010 and 2015. During the GMOS, a coordinated global observational network for atmospheric Hg was established. As one result the spatial and temporal coverage of atmospheric mercury measurements at remote locations around the globe has been significantly expanded, in particular in the Southern Hemisphere. To date, there are more than 40 monitoring sites participating in the GMOS network involving over 50 research institutions worldwide.

In combination with global mercury deposition measurements carried out at a substantial number of these sites, this unprecedented data base has supported the development and validation of both regional and global atmospheric Hg models.

Research work summarized in this Special Issue has strong ties to the UNEP Global Partnership on Atmospheric Mercury Transport and Fate Research (UNEP F&T), the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollutants (TF HTAP) of the UNECE-LRTAP convention, and GEO Task HE-02: Tracking Pollutants related to Hg and POPs as well as the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP).

The manuscripts within this Special Issue have been selected under three main topic cover issues concerning (a) aircraft Hg measurements focusing on vertical profiles of Hg concentrations over Europe discussing influences of industrial emission sources on Hg levels; (b) atmospheric mercury measurements at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed at high altitude and at sea level locations in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as well as in the equatorial area highlighting seasonal, annual, and spatial changes of Hg levels and total wet deposition fluxes; and (c) regional and global scale modelling applications and results highlighting the atmospheric mercury pattern and process, deposition, and source apportionment.

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30 Mar 2016
Tropospheric mercury vertical profiles between 500 and 10 000 m in central Europe
Andreas Weigelt, Ralf Ebinghaus, Nicola Pirrone, Johannes Bieser, Jan Bödewadt, Giulio Esposito, Franz Slemr, Peter F. J. van Velthoven, Andreas Zahn, and Helmut Ziereis
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4135–4146, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4135-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4135-2016, 2016
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13 Jun 2017
A smart nanofibrous material for adsorbing and detecting elemental mercury in air
Antonella Macagnano, Viviana Perri, Emiliano Zampetti, Andrea Bearzotti, Fabrizio De Cesare, Francesca Sprovieri, and Nicola Pirrone
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 6883–6893, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6883-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6883-2017, 2017
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13 Jun 2017
Multi-model study of mercury dispersion in the atmosphere: vertical and interhemispheric distribution of mercury species
Johannes Bieser, Franz Slemr, Jesse Ambrose, Carl Brenninkmeijer, Steve Brooks, Ashu Dastoor, Francesco DeSimone, Ralf Ebinghaus, Christian N. Gencarelli, Beate Geyer, Lynne E. Gratz, Ian M. Hedgecock, Daniel Jaffe, Paul Kelley, Che-Jen Lin, Lyatt Jaegle, Volker Matthias, Andrei Ryjkov, Noelle E. Selin, Shaojie Song, Oleg Travnikov, Andreas Weigelt, Winston Luke, Xinrong Ren, Andreas Zahn, Xin Yang, Yun Zhu, and Nicola Pirrone
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 6925–6955, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6925-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6925-2017, 2017
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26 Apr 2017
Four years (2011–2015) of total gaseous mercury measurements from the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory
Katie A. Read, Luis M. Neves, Lucy J. Carpenter, Alastair C. Lewis, Zoe L. Fleming, and John Kentisbeer
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 5393–5406, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5393-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5393-2017, 2017
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24 Apr 2017
Multi-model study of mercury dispersion in the atmosphere: atmospheric processes and model evaluation
Oleg Travnikov, Hélène Angot, Paulo Artaxo, Mariantonia Bencardino, Johannes Bieser, Francesco D'Amore, Ashu Dastoor, Francesco De Simone, María del Carmen Diéguez, Aurélien Dommergue, Ralf Ebinghaus, Xin Bin Feng, Christian N. Gencarelli, Ian M. Hedgecock, Olivier Magand, Lynwill Martin, Volker Matthias, Nikolay Mashyanov, Nicola Pirrone, Ramesh Ramachandran, Katie Alana Read, Andrei Ryjkov, Noelle E. Selin, Fabrizio Sena, Shaojie Song, Francesca Sprovieri, Dennis Wip, Ingvar Wängberg, and Xin Yang
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 5271–5295, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5271-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5271-2017, 2017
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22 Feb 2017
Five-year records of mercury wet deposition flux at GMOS sites in the Northern and Southern hemispheres
Francesca Sprovieri, Nicola Pirrone, Mariantonia Bencardino, Francesco D'Amore, Helene Angot, Carlo Barbante, Ernst-Günther Brunke, Flor Arcega-Cabrera, Warren Cairns, Sara Comero, María del Carmen Diéguez, Aurélien Dommergue, Ralf Ebinghaus, Xin Bin Feng, Xuewu Fu, Patricia Elizabeth Garcia, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Ulla Hageström, Katarina Hansson, Milena Horvat, Jože Kotnik, Casper Labuschagne, Olivier Magand, Lynwill Martin, Nikolay Mashyanov, Thumeka Mkololo, John Munthe, Vladimir Obolkin, Martha Ramirez Islas, Fabrizio Sena, Vernon Somerset, Pia Spandow, Massimiliano Vardè, Chavon Walters, Ingvar Wängberg, Andreas Weigelt, Xu Yang, and Hui Zhang
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2689–2708, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2689-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2689-2017, 2017
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15 Feb 2017
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Trend of atmospheric mercury concentrations at Cape Point for 1995–2004 and since 2007
Lynwill G. Martin, Casper Labuschagne, Ernst-Günther Brunke, Andreas Weigelt, Ralf Ebinghaus, and Franz Slemr
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2393–2399, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2393-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2393-2017, 2017
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08 Feb 2017
Particulate-phase mercury emissions from biomass burning and impact on resulting deposition: a modelling assessment
Francesco De Simone, Paulo Artaxo, Mariantonia Bencardino, Sergio Cinnirella, Francesco Carbone, Francesco D'Amore, Aurélien Dommergue, Xin Bin Feng, Christian N. Gencarelli, Ian M. Hedgecock, Matthew S. Landis, Francesca Sprovieri, Noriuki Suzuki, Ingvar Wängberg, and Nicola Pirrone
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 1881–1899, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1881-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1881-2017, 2017
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13 Jan 2017
Sensitivity model study of regional mercury dispersion in the atmosphere
Christian N. Gencarelli, Johannes Bieser, Francesco Carbone, Francesco De Simone, Ian M. Hedgecock, Volker Matthias, Oleg Travnikov, Xin Yang, and Nicola Pirrone
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 627–643, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-627-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-627-2017, 2017
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03 Nov 2016
Mercury emissions of a coal-fired power plant in Germany
Andreas Weigelt, Franz Slemr, Ralf Ebinghaus, Nicola Pirrone, Johannes Bieser, Jan Bödewadt, Giulio Esposito, and Peter F. J. van Velthoven
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 13653–13668, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13653-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13653-2016, 2016
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31 Oct 2016
Airborne mercury species at the Råö background monitoring site in Sweden: distribution of mercury as an effect of long-range transport
Ingvar Wängberg, Michelle G. Nerentorp Mastromonaco, John Munthe, and Katarina Gårdfeldt
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 13379–13387, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13379-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13379-2016, 2016
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26 Oct 2016
Monsoon-facilitated characteristics and transport of atmospheric mercury at a high-altitude background site in southwestern China
Hui Zhang, Xuewu Fu, Che-Jen Lin, Lihai Shang, Yiping Zhang, Xinbin Feng, and Cynthia Lin
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 13131–13148, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13131-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13131-2016, 2016
06 Oct 2016
Current and future levels of mercury atmospheric pollution on a global scale
Jozef M. Pacyna, Oleg Travnikov, Francesco De Simone, Ian M. Hedgecock, Kyrre Sundseth, Elisabeth G. Pacyna, Frits Steenhuisen, Nicola Pirrone, John Munthe, and Karin Kindbom
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 12495–12511, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12495-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12495-2016, 2016
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23 Sep 2016
Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network
Francesca Sprovieri, Nicola Pirrone, Mariantonia Bencardino, Francesco D'Amore, Francesco Carbone, Sergio Cinnirella, Valentino Mannarino, Matthew Landis, Ralf Ebinghaus, Andreas Weigelt, Ernst-Günther Brunke, Casper Labuschagne, Lynwill Martin, John Munthe, Ingvar Wängberg, Paulo Artaxo, Fernando Morais, Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa, Joel Brito, Warren Cairns, Carlo Barbante, María del Carmen Diéguez, Patricia Elizabeth Garcia, Aurélien Dommergue, Helene Angot, Olivier Magand, Henrik Skov, Milena Horvat, Jože Kotnik, Katie Alana Read, Luis Mendes Neves, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Fabrizio Sena, Nikolay Mashyanov, Vladimir Obolkin, Dennis Wip, Xin Bin Feng, Hui Zhang, Xuewu Fu, Ramesh Ramachandran, Daniel Cossa, Joël Knoery, Nicolas Marusczak, Michelle Nerentorp, and Claus Norstrom
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 11915–11935, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11915-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11915-2016, 2016
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19 Sep 2016
Atmospheric wet and litterfall mercury deposition at urban and rural sites in China
Xuewu Fu, Xu Yang, Xiaofang Lang, Jun Zhou, Hui Zhang, Ben Yu, Haiyu Yan, Che-Jen Lin, and Xinbin Feng
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 11547–11562, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11547-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11547-2016, 2016
30 Aug 2016
Chemical cycling and deposition of atmospheric mercury in polar regions: review of recent measurements and comparison with models
Hélène Angot, Ashu Dastoor, Francesco De Simone, Katarina Gårdfeldt, Christian N. Gencarelli, Ian M. Hedgecock, Sarka Langer, Olivier Magand, Michelle N. Mastromonaco, Claus Nordstrøm, Katrine A. Pfaffhuber, Nicola Pirrone, Andrei Ryjkov, Noelle E. Selin, Henrik Skov, Shaojie Song, Francesca Sprovieri, Alexandra Steffen, Kenjiro Toyota, Oleg Travnikov, Xin Yang, and Aurélien Dommergue
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10735–10763, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10735-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10735-2016, 2016
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08 Jul 2016
New insights into the atmospheric mercury cycling in central Antarctica and implications on a continental scale
Hélène Angot, Olivier Magand, Detlev Helmig, Philippe Ricaud, Boris Quennehen, Hubert Gallée, Massimo Del Guasta, Francesca Sprovieri, Nicola Pirrone, Joël Savarino, and Aurélien Dommergue
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 8249–8264, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8249-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8249-2016, 2016
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08 Jul 2016
Multi-year record of atmospheric mercury at Dumont d'Urville, East Antarctic coast: continental outflow and oceanic influences
Hélène Angot, Iris Dion, Nicolas Vogel, Michel Legrand, Olivier Magand, and Aurélien Dommergue
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 8265–8279, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8265-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8265-2016, 2016
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