Where does the optically detectable aerosol in the European Arctic come from?

• Main Authors: Stock, Maria, Ritter, Christoph, Aaltonen, Veijo, Aas, Wenche, Handorf, Dörthe, Herber, Andreas, Treffeisen, Renate, Dethloff, Klaus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; North Atlantic; Sodankylä; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34958/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34958/1/TellusB-21450.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43223; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43223.d001

In this paper we pose the question where the source regions of the aerosol which occurs in the European Arctic are located. Long-term aerosol optical depth (AOD) data from Ny-Alesund and Sodankylä as well as short data from a campaign on a Russian drifting station were analysed by air backtrajectori...