An incoherent broadband cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer for simultaneous NO3 and N2O5 measurements, integrated into a NOy instrument suite: characterization and first field deployment

Dewald, Patrick; Harb, Sergio; Picquet-Varrault, Bénédicte; Cazaunau, Mathieu; Feingesicht, Maxime; Beltran, Lucas; Michoud, Vincent; Landsheere, Xavier; Pangui, Edouard; Bergé, Antonin; Cantrell, Christopher; Cirtog, Manuela

doi:10.5194/amt-19-7421-2026

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An incoherent broadband cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer for simultaneous NO₃ and N₂O₅ measurements, integrated into a NO_y instrument suite: characterization and first field deployment

Patrick Dewald, Sergio Harb, Bénédicte Picquet-Varrault, Mathieu Cazaunau, Maxime Feingesicht, Lucas Beltran, Vincent Michoud, Xavier Landsheere, Edouard Pangui, Antonin Bergé, Christopher Cantrell, and Manuela Cirtog

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Data underlying the figures of "An incoherent broadband cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer for simultaneous NO3 and N2O5 measurements, integrated into a NOy instrument suite: characterization and first field deployment" Patrick Dewald et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23922481

Short summary

We built an instrument to measure reactive nitrogen compounds in the atmosphere with a focus on the detection of nitrate radicals. They are formed by pollutants such as ozone and nitrogen oxides and are an important nocturnal oxidant of trace gases, thereby indirectly impacting the interconversion of reactive nitrogen and air quality. The instrument’s characterization, performance assessment and the first field deployment are presented.