Technical Note: A fully automated purge and trap GC-MS system for quantification of volatile organic compound (VOC) fluxes between the ocean and atmosphere

Andrews, S. J.; Hackenberg, S. C.; Carpenter, L. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-313-2015

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-313-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-313-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Technical note

|

23 Apr 2015

Technical note |

| 23 Apr 2015

Technical Note: A fully automated purge and trap GC-MS system for quantification of volatile organic compound (VOC) fluxes between the ocean and atmosphere

S. J. Andrews, S. C. Hackenberg, and L. J. Carpenter

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RC C1348: 'Review of os-2014-80: A fully automated purge and trap-GC-MS system for quantification of volatile organic compound (VOC) fluxes between the ocean and atmosphere, S. J. Andrews, S. C. Hackenberg, and L. J. Carpenter', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Feb 2015
- AC C1350: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Stephen Andrews, 21 Feb 2015
RC C1360: 'Review of os-2014-80', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Feb 2015
- AC C1414: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Stephen Andrews, 13 Mar 2015

Short summary

The oceans are a key source of a number of atmospherically important volatile gases. The accurate and robust determination of trace gases in seawater is a significant analytical challenge. Here we describe a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer based purge and trap system that was developed for the fully automated analysis of dissolved very short-lived species (VSLS) in seawater sampled from a research ship.