%0 journal article
%@ 1680-7316
%A Weigelt, A., Ebinghaus, R., Pirrone, N., Bieser, J., Boedewadt, J., Esposito, G., Slemr, F., Velthoven, P.F.J.van, Zahn, A., Ziereis, H.

%D 2016
%J Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
%N 6
%P 4135-4146 
%R doi:10.5194/acp-16-4135-2016
%T Tropospheric mercury vertical profiles between 500 and 10 000 m in central Europe
%U https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4135-2016
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%X No vertical gradient was found inside the well-mixed boundary layer (variation of less than 0.1 ng m−3) at different sites, with GEM varying from location to location between 1.4 and 1.6 ng m−3 (standard temperature and pressure, STP: T  =  273.15 K, p  =  1013.25 hPa). At all locations GEM dropped to 1.3 ng m−3 (STP) when entering the free troposphere and remained constant at higher altitudes. The combination of the vertical profile, measured on 21 August 2013 over Leipzig, Germany, with the CARIBIC measurements during ascent and descent to Frankfurt Airport, Germany, taken at approximately the same time, provide a unique central European vertical profile from inside the boundary layer (550 m a.s.l) to the upper free troposphere (10 500 m a.s.l.) and show a fairly constant free-tropospheric TGM concentration of 1.3 ng m−3 (STP).