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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
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
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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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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.
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