Atmospheric mercury measurements onboard the CARIBIC passenger  aircraft

Slemr, Franz; Weigelt, Andreas; Ebinghaus, Ralf; Kock, Hans H.; Bödewadt, Jan; Brenninkmeijer, Carl A. M.; Rauthe-Schöch, Armin; Weber, Stefan; Hermann, Markus; Becker, Julia; Zahn, Andreas; Martinsson, Bengt

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2291-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2291-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2291-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 5

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24 May 2016

Research article |

| 24 May 2016

Atmospheric mercury measurements onboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft

Franz Slemr, Andreas Weigelt, Ralf Ebinghaus, Hans H. Kock, Jan Bödewadt, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Armin Rauthe-Schöch, Stefan Weber, Markus Hermann, Julia Becker, Andreas Zahn, and Bengt Martinsson

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RC1: 'amt-2015-376: F. Slemr et al.:Atmospheric mercury measurements onboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft', Anthony Hynes, 15 Feb 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Anthony Hynes', Franz Slemr, 06 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., doi:10.5194/amt-2015-376, 2016, Referee Review', Philip Swartzendruber, 17 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Philip Swartzendruber', Franz Slemr, 06 Apr 2016

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The goal of CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrumented Container) is to carry out regular and detailed observations of atmospheric chemistry at 9–12 km altitude. Mercury has been measured since May 2005 during intercontinental flights between Europe and South and North America, Africa, and Asia. Here we describe the instrument modifications, the post-flight processing of the raw instrument signal, and the fractionation experiments.