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In autumn 1994, a large-scale atmospheric dispersion experiment, the European Tracer Experiment (ETEX) (Graziani et al., 1998; Archer et al., 1997), was carried out. From a site in Brittany, France, a controlled release of an inactive non-depositing tracer gas, a perfluoro-carbon (PFC) compound, was performed for a period of 12 hours starting on October 23 at 16 UTC. The release rate was 7.9 g/s.
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Sørensen, J.H., Rasmussen, A., Ellermann, T., Lyck, E. (2000). Evidence For Mesoscale Influence On Long-Range Dispersion. In: Gryning, SE., Batchvarova, E. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4153-0_27
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