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Results from the first national UK inter-laboratory calibration for very short-lived halocarbons |
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C. E. Jones, S. J. Andrews, L. J. Carpenter, C. Hogan, F. E. Hopkins, J. C. Laube, A. D. Robinson, T. G. Spain, S. D. Archer, N. R. P. Harris, P. D. Nightingale, S. J. O'Doherty, D. E. Oram, J. A. Pyle, J. H. Butler, B. D. Hall |
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Englisch
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1867-1381
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In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ; 4, no. 5 ; Nr. 4, no. 5 (2011-05-12), S.865-874 |
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250001980
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copernicus.org/amt-4-865-2011.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
Very short-lived halocarbons (VSLH) such as CH3I, CH2Br2 and
CHBr3 provide an important source of reactive halogens to the
atmosphere, however high spatial and seasonal variability in their ambient
mixing ratios and sea-air fluxes gives rise to considerable uncertainty in
global scale emission estimates. One solution to improve global flux
estimates is to combine the multitude of individually published datasets to
produce a database of collated global halocarbon observations. Some progress
towards this has already been achieved through the HalOcAt (Halocarbons in
the Ocean and Atmosphere) database initiative, but the absence of a common
calibration scale for very short-lived halocarbons makes it difficult to
distinguish true environmental variations from artefacts arising from
differences between calibration methodologies. As such, the lack of
inter-calibrations for both air and seawater measurements of very
short-lived halocarbons has been identified as a major limitation to current
estimations of the global scale impact of these reactive trace gases. Here
we present the key findings from the first national UK inter-laboratory
comparison for calibrations of the halocarbons CH3I, CH2Br2
and CHBr3. The aim of this inter-calibration was to provide
transparency between halocarbon calibrations from major UK research
institutions, an important step towards enabling all measurements from these
institutions to be treated as one coherent integrated dataset for global
source term parameterisations. |
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