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Research article
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24 May 2016
Research article |
| 24 May 2016
Atmospheric mercury measurements onboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft
Franz Slemr
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (MPIC), Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128
Mainz, Germany
Andreas Weigelt
Helmhotz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institut für Küstenforschung,
Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
now at: Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH),
Wüstland 2, 22589 Hamburg, Germany
Ralf Ebinghaus
Helmhotz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institut für Küstenforschung,
Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Hans H. Kock
Helmhotz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institut für Küstenforschung,
Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Jan Bödewadt
Helmhotz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institut für Küstenforschung,
Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (MPIC), Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128
Mainz, Germany
Armin Rauthe-Schöch
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (MPIC), Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128
Mainz, Germany
Stefan Weber
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (MPIC), Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128
Mainz, Germany
now at: Hessisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie (HLUG),
Rheingaustrasse 186, 65203 Wiesbaden, Germany
Markus Hermann
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Permoserstrasse
15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Julia Becker
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe
Institut für Technologie, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344
Leopoldshafen, Germany
Andreas Zahn
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe
Institut für Technologie, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344
Leopoldshafen, Germany
Bengt Martinsson
University of Lund, Division of Nuclear Physics, P.O. Box 118,
22100, Lund, Sweden
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Short summary
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.
The goal of CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an...
