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Mercury in the Arctic tundra snowpack: temporal and spatial concentration patterns and trace gas exchanges
Yannick Agnan
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, UMR Metis, 75252 Paris, France
Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno,
Nevada 89523, USA
Thomas A. Douglas
US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, PO Box
35170, Fort Wainwright, Alaska 99709, USA
Detlev Helmig
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Jacques Hueber
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Daniel Obrist
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno,
Nevada 89523, USA
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Short summary
In this study, we investigated mercury dynamics in an interior arctic tundra at Toolik Field Station (200 km from the Arctic Ocean) during two full snow seasons. We continuously measured atmospheric, snow gas phase, and soil pores mercury concentrations. We observed consistent concentration declines from the atmosphere to snowpack to soils, indicating that soils are continuous sinks of mercury. We suggest that interior arctic snowpacks may be negligible sources of mercury.
In this study, we investigated mercury dynamics in an interior arctic tundra at Toolik Field...
