Anthropogenic and forest fire pollution aerosol transported to the Arctic: observations from the POLARCAT-France spring campaign

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Quennehen, Boris, Schwarzenboeck, Alfons, Matsuki, A., Burkhart, J. F., Stohl, A., Ancellet, Gérard, Law, Kathy S.
• Other Authors: 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), 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), Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: geo; envir; Aitken; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-6437-2012; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00668101/file/acp-12-6437-2012.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00668101

During the POLARCAT-France airborne measurement campaign in spring 2008, several pollution plumes transported from mid-latitude regions were encountered. The study presented here focuses on air masses from two different geographic origins (Europe and Asia) and from 2 different source types (anthropo...