Arctic warming by abundant fine sea salt aerosols from blowing snow

X Gong, J Zhang, B Croft, X Yang, MM Frey… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Arctic warms nearly four times faster than the global average, and aerosols play an
increasingly important role in Arctic climate change. In the Arctic, sea salt is a major aerosol …

A central arctic extreme aerosol event triggered by a warm air-mass intrusion

L Dada, H Angot, I Beck, A Baccarini… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Frequency and intensity of warm and moist air-mass intrusions into the Arctic have
increased over the past decades and have been related to sea ice melt. During our year …

Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom

M Ardyna, DS Hamilton, T Harmel, L Lacour… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Summertime wildfire activity is increasing in boreal forest and tundra ecosystems in the
Northern Hemisphere. However, the impact of long range transport and deposition of wildfire …

[HTML][HTML] Ice-nucleating particles in northern Greenland: annual cycles, biological contribution and parameterizations

KCH Sze, H Wex, M Hartmann, H Skov… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) can initiate ice formation in clouds at temperatures above-
38∘ C through heterogeneous ice nucleation. As a result, INPs affect cloud microphysical …

Increased aerosol concentrations in the High Arctic attributable to changing atmospheric transport patterns

JB Pernov, D Beddows, DC Thomas… - npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
The Arctic environment has changed profoundly in recent decades. Aerosol particles are
involved in numerous feedback mechanisms in the Arctic, eg, aerosol-cloud/radiation …

Year-round trace gas measurements in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC expedition

H Angot, B Blomquist, D Howard, S Archer, L Bariteau… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the key role of the Arctic in the global Earth system, year-round in-situ atmospheric
composition observations within the Arctic are sparse and mostly rely on measurements at …

[HTML][HTML] A full year of aerosol size distribution data from the central Arctic under an extreme positive Arctic Oscillation: insights from the Multidisciplinary drifting …

M Boyer, D Aliaga, JB Pernov, H Angot… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The Arctic environment is rapidly changing due to accelerated warming in the region. The
warming trend is driving a decline in sea ice extent, which thereby enhances feedback loops …

Elucidating the present-day chemical composition, seasonality and source regions of climate-relevant aerosols across the Arctic land surface

V Moschos, J Schmale, W Aas, S Becagli… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Arctic is warming two to three times faster than the global average, and the role of
aerosols is not well constrained. Aerosol number concentrations can be very low in remote …

Arctic spring and summertime aerosol optical depth baseline from long-term observations and model reanalyses–Part 1: Climatology and trend

P **an, J Zhang, NT O'Neill, TD Toth… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We present an Arctic aerosol optical depth (AOD) climatology and trend analysis for 2003–
2019 spring and summertime periods derived from a combination of multi-agency aerosol …

Investigating processes influencing simulation of local Arctic wintertime anthropogenic pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska, during ALPACA-2022

N Brett, KS Law, SR Arnold… - Atmospheric …, 2025 - acp.copernicus.org
Lagrangian tracer simulations are deployed to investigate processes influencing vertical and
horizontal dispersion of anthropogenic pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska, during the Alaskan …