Long-term monitoring of gaseous elementary mercury in background air at the polar station Amderma, Russian Arctic

• Main Author: Pankratov, Fidel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Gaseous elementary mercury; Russian Arctic; Concentration; Arctic; Kara Sea; Amderma; AMAP
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4060211; https://zenodo.org/record/4060211

The produced dataset (in MS Excel format) contains time-series of concentrations of gaseous elementary mercury (GEM, thereafter – mercury) in the background air collected at the Amderma polar station near the Amderma settlement of the Russian Arctic (69,72 deg N; 61,62 deg E; Yugor Peninsula, Russia) from 24th June 2001 until 13th February 2013. The concentrations for mercury are given in ng/m^3. Concentrations were measured in the air at every 30 minute interval using Tekran-2537A instrument. After checking quality of recorded values of the mercury concentration, the average of two consecutive measurements in two channels (average 1 hour measurements) are calculated. Data (as time-series) are grouped into three blocks covering different time periods and adjacent locations. First block covers period from 24th June 2001 to 13th February 2004 (when the analyzer was located at a distance of about 9 km from the coastline of the Kara Sea). Second block covers period from 3th April 2005 to 12th June 2010 (when the analyzer was placed at 2.5 km from the coast). Third block covers period from 15th June 2010 to 10th October 2013 (the analyzer was set up at a distance of 200 m from the coastline of the sea). : AMAP: Mercury in the Arctic Horizon-2020 iCUPE (Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments) project : {"references": ["Pankratov, F., Mahura, A., Pet\u00e4j\u00e4, T., Popov, V., and Masloboev, V.: Elevated atmospheric mercury concentrations at the Russian polar station Amderma during Icelandic volcanoes' eruptions, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2018-1228, 2018."]}