Space‐based observations for understanding changes in the arctic‐boreal zone

BN Duncan, LE Ott, JB Abshire, L Brucker… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Observations taken over the last few decades indicate that dramatic changes are occurring
in the Arctic‐Boreal Zone (ABZ), which are having significant impacts on ABZ inhabitants …

Arctic tropospheric ozone: assessment of current knowledge and model performance

CH Whaley, KS Law, JL Hjorth, H Skov… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
As the third most important greenhouse gas (GHG) after CO 2 and methane, tropospheric
ozone (O 3) is also an air pollutant causing damage to human health and ecosystems. This …

Local Arctic air pollution: A neglected but serious problem

J Schmale, SR Arnold, KS Law, T Thorp… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Air pollution in the Arctic caused by local emission sources is a challenge that is important
but often overlooked. Local Arctic air pollution can be severe and significantly exceed air …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite-based estimates of nitrogen oxide and methane emissions from gas flaring and oil production activities in Sakha Republic, Russia

I Ialongo, N Stepanova, J Hakkarainen, H Virta… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Crude oil production activities and associated petroleum gas (APG) flaring are responsible
for significant air polluting and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and have negative effects …

Gas flaring: a review focused on its analysis from space

M Faruolo, A Caseiro, T Lacava… - IEEE geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article represents the current state of the art in analyzing gas flaring (GF) from space.
GF is a prominent source of air pollution, with significant global and local impacts. Its …

The abundance and sources of ice nucleating particles within Alaskan ice fog

E Lill, EJ Costa, K Barry, JA Mirrielees… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field campaign
included deployment of a suite of atmospheric measurements in January–February 2022 …

Satellite‐observed changes in Mexico's offshore gas flaring activity linked to oil/gas regulations

Y Zhang, R Gautam, D Zavala‐Araiza… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Gas flaring is a commonly used practice in the oil and gas sector that leads to key air
pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions. Here we use multipollutant (NO2, SO2) satellite …

Evaluation of CESM1 (WACCM) free-running and specified dynamics atmospheric composition simulations using global multispecies satellite data records

L Froidevaux, DE Kinnison, R Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We have analyzed near-global stratospheric data (and mesospheric data as well for H 2 O)
in terms of absolute abundances, variability, and trends for O 3, H 2 O, HCl, N 2 O, and HNO …

Exploring the endocrine activity of air pollutants associated with unconventional oil and gas extraction

AL Bolden, K Schultz, KE Pelch, CF Kwiatkowski - Environmental health, 2018 - Springer
Background In the last decade unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction has rapidly
proliferated throughout the United States (US) and the world. This occurred largely because …

Spaceborne NO2 observations are sensitive to coal mining and processing in the largest coal basin of Russia

LD Labzovskii, DA Belikov, A Damiani - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Coal use exacerbates several major environmental problems including build-up of
greenhouse gases and air quality deterioration. Although Kuzbass (Siberia) is one of the …