ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-11-6735-2011 1997–2007 CO trend at the high Alpine site Jungfraujoch: a comparison between NDIR surface in situ and FTIR remote sensing observations Dils B. 1 Cui J. 2 Henne S. 3 Mahieu E. 4 Steinbacher M. 3 De Mazière M. 1 Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium 13 07 2011 11 13 6735 6748 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/6735/2011/acp-11-6735-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/6735/2011/acp-11-6735-2011.pdf

Within the atmospheric research community, there is a strong interest in integrated datasets, combining data from several instrumentations. This integration is complicated by the different characteristics of the datasets, inherent to the measurement techniques. Here we have compared two carbon monoxide time series (1997 till 2007) acquired at the high-Alpine research station Jungfraujoch (3580 m above sea level), with two well-established measurement techniques, namely in situ surface concentration measurements using Non-Dispersive Infrared Absorption technology (NDIR), and ground-based remote sensing measurements using solar absorption Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometry (FTIR). The profile information available in the FTIR signal allowed us to extract an independent layer with a top height of 7.18 km above sea level, appropriate for comparison with our in situ measurements. We show that, even if both techniques are able to measure free troposphere CO concentrations, the datasets exhibit marked differences in their overall trends (−3.21 ± 0.03 ppb year<sup>−1</sup> for NDIR vs. −0.8 ± 0.4 ppb year<sup>−1</sup> for FTIR). Removing measurements that are polluted by uprising boundary layer air has a strong impact on the NDIR trend (now −2.62 ± 0.03 ppb year<sup>−1</sup>), but its difference with FTIR remains significant. Using the LAGRANTO trajectory model, we show that both measurement techniques are influenced by different source regions and therefore are likely subject to exhibit significant differences in their overall trend behaviour. However the observation that the NDIR-FTIR trend difference is as significant before as after 2001 is at odds with available emission databases which claim a significant Asian CO increase after 2001 only.

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