A 2-year record of atmospheric mercury species at a background Southern Hemisphere station on Amsterdam Island
International audience Although essential to fully understand the cycling of mercury at the global scale, mercury species records in the Southern Hemisphere are scarce. Under the framework of the Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS) project, a monitoring station has been set up on Amsterdam Isla...
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International audience Although essential to fully understand the cycling of mercury at the global scale, mercury species records in the Southern Hemisphere are scarce. Under the framework of the Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS) project, a monitoring station has been set up on Amsterdam Island (37 • 48 S, 77 • 34 E) in the remote southern Indian Ocean. For the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, a 2-year record of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM) and particle-bound mercury (PBM) is presented. GEM concentrations were remarkably steady (1.03 ± 0.08 ng m −3) while RGM and PBM concentrations were very low and exhibited a strong variability (mean: 0.34 pg m −3 , range: < detection limit-4.07 pg m −3 and mean: 0.67 pg m −3 , range: < detection limit-12.67 pg m −3 , respectively). Despite the remoteness of the island, wind sector analysis, air mass back trajectories and the observation of radonic storms highlighted a longrange contribution from the southern African continent to the GEM and PBM budgets from July to September during the biomass burning season. Low concentrations of GEM were associated with southerly polar and marine air masses from the remote southern Indian Ocean. This unique data set provides new baseline GEM concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere midlatitudes while mercury speciation along with upcoming wet deposition data will help to improve our understanding of the mercury cycle in the marine boundary layer. |
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A 2-year record of atmospheric mercury species at a background Southern Hemisphere station on Amsterdam Island |
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A 2-year record of atmospheric mercury species at a background Southern Hemisphere station on Amsterdam Island |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-03116021v1 2024-04-28T07:54:30+00:00 A 2-year record of atmospheric mercury species at a background Southern Hemisphere station on Amsterdam Island Angot, H. Barret, M. Magand, O. Ramonet, M. Dommergue, A. Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE) Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG) Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) ICOS-RAMCES (ICOS-RAMCES) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) 2014 https://hal.science/hal-03116021 https://hal.science/hal-03116021/document https://hal.science/hal-03116021/file/acp-14-11461-2014.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-11461-2014 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-14-11461-2014 hal-03116021 https://hal.science/hal-03116021 https://hal.science/hal-03116021/document https://hal.science/hal-03116021/file/acp-14-11461-2014.pdf doi:10.5194/acp-14-11461-2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://hal.science/hal-03116021 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2014, 14 (20), pp.11461-11473. ⟨10.5194/acp-14-11461-2014⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2014 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-11461-2014 2024-04-05T00:38:39Z International audience Although essential to fully understand the cycling of mercury at the global scale, mercury species records in the Southern Hemisphere are scarce. Under the framework of the Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS) project, a monitoring station has been set up on Amsterdam Island (37 • 48 S, 77 • 34 E) in the remote southern Indian Ocean. For the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, a 2-year record of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM) and particle-bound mercury (PBM) is presented. GEM concentrations were remarkably steady (1.03 ± 0.08 ng m −3) while RGM and PBM concentrations were very low and exhibited a strong variability (mean: 0.34 pg m −3 , range: < detection limit-4.07 pg m −3 and mean: 0.67 pg m −3 , range: < detection limit-12.67 pg m −3 , respectively). Despite the remoteness of the island, wind sector analysis, air mass back trajectories and the observation of radonic storms highlighted a longrange contribution from the southern African continent to the GEM and PBM budgets from July to September during the biomass burning season. Low concentrations of GEM were associated with southerly polar and marine air masses from the remote southern Indian Ocean. This unique data set provides new baseline GEM concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere midlatitudes while mercury speciation along with upcoming wet deposition data will help to improve our understanding of the mercury cycle in the marine boundary layer. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amsterdam Island Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14 20 11461 11473 |