An 800-year high-resolution black carbon ice core record from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Osmont, Dimitri, Wendl, Isabel A., Schmidely, Loïc, Sigl, Michael, Vega, Carmen P., Isaksson, Elisabeth, Schwikowski, Margit
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Lomonosovfonna; Svalbard; albedo; black carbon; Greenland ice cores; ice core; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12777-2018; https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/18/12777/2018/

Produced by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and biomass, black carbon (BC) contributes to Arctic warming by reducing snow albedo and thus triggering a snow-albedo feedback leading to increased snowmelt. Therefore, it is of high importance to assess past BC emissions to better understand and...