A North American Arctic Aerosol Climatology using Ground-based Sunphotometry

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Bokoye, Amadou I., Royer, Alain, O'Neill, N.T., McArthur, L.J. Bruce
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2002
• Subjects: aerosols; sunphotometer; aerosol optical depth; aérosols; photomètre solaire; épaisseur optique des aerosols; Arctic; Bonanza; Arctique*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63763

The Arctic is known as a key area for the detection of climate changes and atmospheric pollution on a global scale. In this paper we describe a new Canadian sunphotometer network called AEROCAN, whose primary mandate is to establish a climatology of atmospheric aerosols. This network is part of AERO...