INterContinental Atmospheric Transport of anthropogenic Pollutants to the Arctic (INCATPA)

• Main Authors: Hayley Hung, Alexandra Steffen, Amanda Cole, Ashu Dastoor, Ed Sverko, Jianmin Ma, John Norman Westgate, Tom Harner, Yi-Fan Li
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: PCBs; Circumpolar region; Mercury; Atmosphere; Arctic; Persistent organic pollutants; Pesticides; Amderma; Canada; Fairbanks; Little Fox Lakes; Norway; Nunavut; Ny-Ålesund; Pacific; Yukon; AMAP; Barrow; Climate change; International Polar Year; IPY; Ny Ålesund; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:1dad0bdd2433bddc23356bb801549f1075edb04eba223b5f84aa9a02ee2704b1

Air monitoring of POPs and Hg has taken place at Alert, Nunavut, Canada and Ny Ålesund, Norway since the 1990s under the Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) of Canada and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), respectively. Through the International Polar Year (IPY) INCATPA project,...