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

• Main Authors: Hung, Hayley, Cole, Amanda, Dastoor, Ashu, Harner, Tom, Li, Yi-Fan, Ma, Jianmin, Steffen, Alexandra, Sverko, Ed, Westgate, John Norman
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Atmosphere; Circumpolar region; Mercury; PCBs; Persistent organic pollutants POPs; Pesticides; International Polar Year-Intercontinental Atmospheric Transport of Anthropogenic Pollutants to the Arctic; Nunavut; Yukon; Ny-Ålesund; Fairbanks; Canada; Pacific; Norway; Tagish; Amderma; Little Fox Lakes; AMAP; Barrow; Climate change; International Polar Year; IPY; Ny Ålesund; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/11406; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=11406

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,...