Processes controlling the composition and abundance of Arctic aerosol

MD Willis, WR Leaitch, JPD Abbatt - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic region is a harbinger of global change and is warming at a rate higher than the
global average. While Arctic warming is driven by increases in anthropogenic greenhouse …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic atmospheric mercury: Sources and changes

A Dastoor, SJ Wilson, O Travnikov, A Ryjkov… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global anthropogenic and legacy mercury (Hg) emissions are the main sources of Arctic Hg
contamination, primarily transported there via the atmosphere. This review summarizes the …

Black carbon in the Arctic: the underestimated role of gas flaring and residential combustion emissions

A Stohl, Z Klimont, S Eckhardt… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Arctic haze is a seasonal phenomenon with high concentrations of accumulation-mode
aerosols occurring in the Arctic in winter and early spring. Chemistry transport models and …

Climate response to regional radiative forcing during the twentieth century

D Shindell, G Faluvegi - Nature Geoscience, 2009 - nature.com
Regional climate change can arise from three different effects: regional changes to the
amount of radiative heating that reaches the Earth's surface, an inhomogeneous response to …

Characteristics of atmospheric transport into the Arctic troposphere

A Stohl - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART was used to construct a global data
set of 1.4 million continuous trajectories. At the model start, particles were distributed …

Arctic haze: current trends and knowledge gaps

PK Quinn, G Shaw, E Andrews, EG Dutton… - Tellus B: Chemical …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Trend analyses were performed on several indicators of Arctic haze using data from sites
located in the North American, Norwegian, Finnish and Russian Arctic for the spring months …

Sources of carbonaceous aerosols and deposited black carbon in the Arctic in winter-spring: implications for radiative forcing

Q Wang, DJ Jacob, JA Fisher, J Mao… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
We use a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem CTM) to interpret observations of
black carbon (BC) and organic aerosol (OA) from the NASA ARCTAS aircraft campaign over …

Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies

PK Quinn, TS Bates, E Baum… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
Several short-lived pollutants known to impact Arctic climate may be contributing to the
accelerated rates of warming observed in this region relative to the global annually …

Arctic smoke–record high air pollution levels in the European Arctic due to agricultural fires in Eastern Europe in spring 2006

A Stohl, T Berg, JF Burkhart, AM Fjǽraa… - Atmospheric …, 2007 - acp.copernicus.org
In spring 2006, the European Arctic was abnormally warm, setting new historical
temperature records. During this warm period, smoke from agricultural fires in Eastern …

The Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) mission: design, execution, and first results

DJ Jacob, JH Crawford, H Maring… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
The NASA Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and
Satellites (ARCTAS) mission was conducted in two 3-week deployments based in Alaska …