TY - JOUR N2 - Ambient concentrations of CO, as well as NOx and O3, were measured as a part of the PARADE campaign conducted at the Taunus Observatory on the summit of the Kleiner Feldberg between the 8th of August and 9th of September 2011. These measurements were made in an effort to provide insight into the characteristics of the effects of both biogenic and anthropogenic emissions on atmospheric chemistry in the rural south-western German environment. The overall average CO concentration was found to be 100.3±18.1 ppbv (within the range of 71 to 180 ppbv), determined from 10-min averages during the summer season. The background CO concentration was estimated to be ~90 ppbv. CO and NOx showed bimodal diurnal variations with peaks in the late morning (10:00-12:00 UTC) and in the late afternoon (17:00-20:00 UTC). Strong correlations between CO and NOx indicated that vehicular emission was the major contributor to the notable CO plumes observed at the sampling site. Both local meteorology and backward trajectory analyses suggest that CO plumes were associated with anthropogenically polluted air masses transferred by an advection to the site from densely populated city sites. Furthermore, a good linear correlation of R2 = 0.54 between CO and O3 (∆O3/∆CO=0.560±0.016 ppbv/ppbv) was observed, in good agreement with previous observations L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/90298/PDF/Journal10178-VolumeXXII%20Issue1_03.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/90298 PY - 2015 IS - No 1 EP - 38 DO - 10.1515/mms-2015-0001 KW - Trace gas measurements KW - atmospheric CO KW - QCL sensor KW - sources relation KW - sources identification A1 - Li, Jingsong A1 - Reiffs, Andreas A1 - Parchatka, Uwe A1 - Fischer, Horst PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation VL - vol. 22 DA - 2015[2015.01.01 AD - 2015.12.31 AD] T1 - In Situ Measurements of Atmospheric CO And Its Correlation With Nox And O3 at a Rural Mountain Site SP - 25 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/90298 T2 - Metrology and Measurement Systems ER -