Aerosol black carbon in the European Arctic: Measurements at Zeppelin station, www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/6775/2012/ Atmos

• Main Authors: K Eleftheriadis, S Vratolis, S Nyeki
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Lesund; Svalbard; black carbon
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1052.1984; http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/black-carbon/eleftheriadis-2009-bc-european-arctic.pdf

[1] An aerosol black carbon (BC) data set from ongoing measurements at Zeppelin station (474 m asl), near Ny-Å lesund (10 m asl), Svalbard is reported for the period 1998 -2007. Annual average and median BC concentrations were 39 and 27 ng m À3 , respectively, while monthly averages ranged from a maximum $80 ng m À3 in February/ March to a minimum 0 -10 ng m À3 from June to September. BC concentrations were calibrated by elemental carbon thermo-optical analysis. PSCF trajectory analysis indicated that BC concentrations at Zeppelin were mainly influenced by source regions in northern and central Russia. Since 2001, a small decreasing trend in BC concentration (À9.5 ng m À3 per decade) for the period to 2007 has been observed which is, however, similar to the detection limit.