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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: geo; hist; Arctic; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Kiruna; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/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 origins as they are transported to the Arctic. This study is focusing on the physical, chemical and optical properties of aerosol particles transported to remote Arctic regions.