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Atmospheric Environment 36 (2002) 2619–2628 Measurements of hydrogen peroxide and formaldehyde exchange between the atmosphere and surface snow at Summit, Greenland a, a a a Hans-Werner Jacobi *, Markus M. Frey , Manuel A. Hutterli , Roger C. Bales , Otto Schremsb c c d , Nicolas J. Cullen , Konrad Steffen , Cathi Koehler a Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210011, 1133 E. North Campus Dr., Tucson, AZ 85721-0011, USA b Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany c CIRES, CB 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA d Manchester High School, Earth and Space Science, Manchester, CT 06040, USA Received 6 June 2001; received in revised form 7 September 2001; accepted 17 September 2001 Abstract Tower-based measurements of hydrogen peroxide (H O ) and formaldehyde (HCHO) exchange were performed 2 2 above the snowpack of the Greenland ice sheet. H2O2 and HCHO fluxes were measured continuously between 16 June and 7 July 2000, at the Summit Environmental Observatory. The fluxes were determined using coil scrubber-aqueous phase fluorometry systems together with micrometeorological techniques. Both compounds exhibit strong diel cycles in the observed concentrations as well as in the fluxes with emission from the snow during the day and the evening and