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This chapter introduces the Hungarian atmospheric greenhouse gas monitoring stations, their environment, monitoring program, and instrumentation. Quality of the measurements is discussed using the results of interlaboratory comparisons and independent parallel measurements. Study on the spatial representativeness of the measurements leads to the revelation that only the early afternoon measurements can be used for studies other than investigation of diurnal variations. The early afternoon carbon dioxide data may be representative for 200,000–300,000 km2, and they can characterize the average boundary layer mixing ratio with a reasonable accuracy. Finally, the chapter lists the major international projects, in which the Hungarian monitoring sites participate, the databases, where their data are accessible, and the projects, which support or supported the monitoring activity.
Citation: Haszpra, L., Barcza, Z., Szilágyi, I., 2010: Atmospheric trends and fluctuations – History and sites of atmospheric greenhouse gas monitoring in Hungary. In: Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective (Ed.: Haszpra, L.), pp. 9–27.
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Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmissions of Air Pollutants in Europe (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme – EMEP).
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During the years, Hungarian atmospheric greenhouse gas monitoring received significant financial support from the US–Hungarian Scientific and Technological Joint Fund (J.F. 162, J.F. 504), the European Commission (AEROCARB – EVK2-CT-1999-00013, CHIOTTO – EVK2-CT-2002-00163, CarboEurope-IP – GOCE-CT-2003-505572, IMECC – RII3 026188), the European Union INTERREG IIIB CADSES program (5D038), as well as from Hungarian funding organizations (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – T7282, T042941, CK77550, Hungarian Ministry of Economy and Transport – GVOP-3.2.1.-2004-04-0107/3.0, Hungarian Ministry for Environment – 027739-01/2001, K0441482001, K-36-02-00010H). The authors thank Pat Lang, Tom Conway, and Molly Heller at NOAA ESRL Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gases group for the analyses and logistics of the flask samples. The authors also thank Michel Ramonet, Martina Schmidt, and their colleagues at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, for the analyses of the aircraft air samples.
In addition to original material, this chapter also contains, mostly updated, sections and figures from Haszpra (1999b) and Haszpra et al. (2001, 2008).
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Haszpra, L., Barcza, Z., Szilágyi, I. (2011). History and Sites of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Monitoring in Hungary. In: Haszpra, L. (eds) Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9950-1_2
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