Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic
Sub-micrometer particle size distributions measured during four summer cruises of the Swedish icebreaker Oden 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2008 were combined with dimethyl sulfide gas data, back trajectories, and daily maps of pack ice cover in order to investigate source areas and aerosol formation proces...
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ftleibnizopen:oai:oai.leibnizopen.de:uBN2DYsBBwLIz6xGY-Cr 2023-11-05T03:37:59+01:00 Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic Heintzenberg, J. Leck, C. Tunved, P. 2015 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.34657/1203 https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/318 eng eng München : European Geopyhsical Union CC BY 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Volume 15, Issue 11, Page 6487-6502 aerosol formation algorithm arctic environment energy balance ice cover particle size size distribution 550 article Text 2015 ftleibnizopen https://doi.org/10.34657/1203 2023-10-08T23:17:17Z Sub-micrometer particle size distributions measured during four summer cruises of the Swedish icebreaker Oden 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2008 were combined with dimethyl sulfide gas data, back trajectories, and daily maps of pack ice cover in order to investigate source areas and aerosol formation processes of the boundary layer aerosol in the central Arctic. With a clustering algorithm, potential aerosol source areas were explored. Clustering of particle size distributions together with back trajectories delineated five potential source regions and three different aerosol types that covered most of the Arctic Basin: marine, newly formed and aged particles over the pack ice. Most of the pack ice area with < 15% of open water under the trajectories exhibited the aged aerosol type with only one major mode around 40 nm. For newly formed particles to occur, two conditions had to be fulfilled over the pack ice: the air had spent 10 days while traveling over ever more contiguous ice and had traveled over less than 30% open water during the last 5 days. Additionally, the air had experienced more open water (at least twice as much as in the cases of aged aerosol) during the last 4 days before arrival in heavy ice conditions at Oden. Thus we hypothesize that these two conditions were essential factors for the formation of ultrafine particles over the central Arctic pack ice. In a comparison the Oden data with summer size distribution data from Alert, Nunavut, and Mt. Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, we confirmed the Oden findings with respect to particle sources over the central Arctic. Future more frequent broken-ice or open water patches in summer will spur biological activity in surface water promoting the formation of biological particles. Thereby low clouds and fogs and subsequently the surface energy balance and ice melt may be affected. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Basin Arctic Nunavut oden Spitsbergen LeibnizOpen (The Leibniz Association) |
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Sub-micrometer particle size distributions measured during four summer cruises of the Swedish icebreaker Oden 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2008 were combined with dimethyl sulfide gas data, back trajectories, and daily maps of pack ice cover in order to investigate source areas and aerosol formation processes of the boundary layer aerosol in the central Arctic. With a clustering algorithm, potential aerosol source areas were explored. Clustering of particle size distributions together with back trajectories delineated five potential source regions and three different aerosol types that covered most of the Arctic Basin: marine, newly formed and aged particles over the pack ice. Most of the pack ice area with < 15% of open water under the trajectories exhibited the aged aerosol type with only one major mode around 40 nm. For newly formed particles to occur, two conditions had to be fulfilled over the pack ice: the air had spent 10 days while traveling over ever more contiguous ice and had traveled over less than 30% open water during the last 5 days. Additionally, the air had experienced more open water (at least twice as much as in the cases of aged aerosol) during the last 4 days before arrival in heavy ice conditions at Oden. Thus we hypothesize that these two conditions were essential factors for the formation of ultrafine particles over the central Arctic pack ice. In a comparison the Oden data with summer size distribution data from Alert, Nunavut, and Mt. Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, we confirmed the Oden findings with respect to particle sources over the central Arctic. Future more frequent broken-ice or open water patches in summer will spur biological activity in surface water promoting the formation of biological particles. Thereby low clouds and fogs and subsequently the surface energy balance and ice melt may be affected. publishedVersion |
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Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic |
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Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic |
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Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic |
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Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic |
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Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic |
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potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer arctic |
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München : European Geopyhsical Union |
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2015 |
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Arctic Basin Arctic Nunavut oden Spitsbergen |
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Volume 15, Issue 11, Page 6487-6502 |
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