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@ARTICLE{Bujok:647,
author = {Bujok, A. A. and Tan, V. and Klein, E. and Nopper, R. and
Bauer, R. and Engel, A. and Gerhards, M.-T. and Afchine, A.
and MacKenna, A. R. and Schmidt, U. and Wienhold, F. and
Fischer, H.},
title = {{GHOST} - a novel airborne gas chromatograph for in situ
measurements of long-lived tracers in the lower stratosphere
: method und {A}pplications},
journal = {Journal of atmospheric chemistry},
volume = {39},
issn = {0167-7764},
address = {Dordrecht [u.a.]},
publisher = {Springer Science + Business Media B.V},
reportid = {PreJuSER-647},
pages = {37 - 64},
year = {2001},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {A novel fully-automated airborne gas chromatograph for in
situ measurements of long-lived stratospheric tracers has
been developed, combining the high selectivity of a megabore
PLOT capillary column with recently developed sampling and
separation techniques. The Gas cHromatograph for the
Observation of Stratospheric Tracers (GHOST) has been
successfully operated during three STREAM campaigns
(Stratosphere TRoposphere Experiment by Airborne
Measurement) onboard a Cessna Citation II aircraft in two
different modes: Either N2O and CF2Cl2 (CFC-12) or CFC-12
and CFCl3 (CFC-11) have been measured simultaneously, with a
time resolution of 2 min for both modes. Under flight
conditions the instrument precision (1 sigma) for these
species is better than $0.9\%,$ and the accuracy (1 sigma)
is better than $2.0\%$ of the tropospheric values of all
measured compounds. The detection limits (3 sigma) are below
28 ppb for N2O, 14 ppt for CFC-12, and 8 ppt for CFC-11,
respectively, i.e., well below $10\%$ of the tropospheric
values of all measured compounds. Post-mission optimization
of the chromatographic separation showed a possible
enhancement of the time resolution by up to a factor of 2,
associated with a comparable increase in precision and
detection limit. As test of actual performance of GHOST
results from an in-flight N2O intercomparison with a tunable
diode laser absorption spectrometer (TDLAS) are presented.
They yield an excellent agreement between both instruments.
Furthermore, on the basis of the hitherto most extensive set
of upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric data, the
relative stratospheric N2O lifetime is re-assessed. When
referenced to the WMO reference CFC-11 lifetime of 45 +/- 7
years an N2O lifetime of 91 +/- 15 years is derived, a value
substantially smaller than the WMO reference lifetime of 120
years. Moreover, this value implies a stratospheric N2O sink
strength of 16.3 +/- 2.7 Tg (N) yr(-1) which is $30\%$
larger than previous estimates.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-I},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB47},
pnm = {Stratosphärische Chemie},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK71},
shelfmark = {Environmental Sciences / Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric
Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000168190200003},
doi = {10.1023/A:1010789715871},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/647},
}