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Fate of Mercury in the Arctic 39<br />

3.6 Flux measurements of reactive gaseous mercury by relaxed eddy accumulation<br />

Figure 3 Relaxed eddy accumulation system deployed on a tower support pole at NOAA CMDL, Barrow Alaska.<br />

The photo is toward Point Barrow, with the system oriented northeast, in the direction of prevailing<br />

winds coming from the Beaufort Sea, approximately 2 km from the station. NOAA CMDL is<br />

approximately 9 m above sea level, with a flat terrain profile. Metek Sonic anemometer mounted<br />

independently on 1 side of the support. 3 original heating mantels mounted behind the sonic<br />

anemometer. The two heating mantels to the right are for up and down channels, the heating cap to<br />

the left is for mid channel denuders. Original heating caps could warm the denuders to 50 0 C above<br />

ambient such that typical temperatures were 20 0 C. Black neoprene air hoses go to the black box that<br />

will be buried in the snow to hold the REA switches and other components warm. From left to right<br />

in the photo, S. Brooks, NOAA, M. Goodsite, NERI and M. Landis, US EPA. REA control system<br />

from Metsupport, Denmark. Courtesy of S. Lindberg, ORNL.<br />

Relaxed eddy accumulation, REA, is a micrometeorological method for trace gas flux<br />

determination. All micrometeorological systems require the measurement of the turbulent<br />

component of air and the measurement of the trace gas of interest. REA “relaxes” the requirement<br />

for instantaneous gas analysis by preferentially collecting air over time into some type of<br />

accumulator and analysing the trace gas in the collected sample after the sampling period.

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