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Investigation of the formaldehyde differential absorption cross section at high and low spectral resolution in the simulation chamber SAPHIR
Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre (ICG-II: Troposphäre), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Abstract. The results from a simulation chamber study on the formaldehyde (HCHO) absorption cross section in the UV spectral region are presented. We performed 5 experiments at ambient HCHO concentrations with simultaneous measurements of two DOAS instruments in the atmosphere simulation chamber SAPHIR in Jülich. The two instruments differ in their spectral resolution, one working at 0.2 nm (broad-band, BB-DOAS), the other at 2.7 pm (high-resolution, HR-DOAS). Both instruments use dedicated multi reflection cells to achieve long light path lengths of 960 m and 2240 m, respectively, inside the chamber.
During three experiments HCHO was injected into the clean chamber by thermolysis of well defined amounts of para-formaldehyde reaching mixing rations of 40 ppbV at maximum. The HCHO concentration calculated from the injection and the chamber volume agrees with the BB-DOAS measured value when the absorption cross section of Meller and Moortgat (2000) was used for data evaluation. In two further experiments we produced HCHO
Based on the BB-DOAS measurements we could deduce a high-resolution cross section for HCHO which was not measured directly so far.
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Citation: Brauers, T., Bossmeyer, J., Dorn, H.-P., Schlosser, E., Tillmann, R., Wegener, R., and Wahner, A.: Investigation of the formaldehyde differential absorption cross section at high and low spectral resolution in the simulation chamber SAPHIR, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 2991-3012, 2007. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
