Pollution transported to the Arctic during the POLARCAT-France spring and summer campaigns: source regions and aerosol properties

• Main Authors: Quennehen, Boris, Schwarzenboeck, Alfons, Matsuki, Atsushi, Schmale, Julia, Sodemann, Harald, Ancellet, Gérard, Schneider, Johannes, Stohl, Andreas, Pelon, Jacques, Law, Kathy S.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de météorologie physique (LaMP), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Organization of Frontier Science and Innovation Kanazawa (O-FSI), Kanazawa University (KU), Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Zürich (IAC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), TROPO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Arctic; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Kiruna; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00675357

Within the frame of the POLARCAT-France campaign, part of the 4th International Polar Year, the French research aircraft ATR-42 was deployed at Kiruna, Sweden and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland in April and July 2008, respectively. The aim of the campaigns was to characterise pollution plumes of different...