Comparison of measurements of aerosol elemental carbon at Wrangel Island, USSR, and Barrow, Alaska

• Main Authors: Polissar, A. V., Kapustin, V. N., Hansen, A. D. A.
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy., United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1991
• Subjects: Europe; Elements; Aerosols; Nonmetals; Usa 540120* > Environment; Atmospheric > Chemicals Monitoring & Transport > (1990-); Evaluation; Alaska; Sampling; Asia; Colloids; Dispersions; Ussr; North America; 54 Environmental Sciences; Carbon; Comparative Evaluations; Environmental Transport; Sols; Developed Countries; Arctic Haze; Mass Transfer; Arctic; Wrangel Island; Barrow; black carbon
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1085713/

During the winter and spring seasons of 1989 and 1990, we collected samples of the background aerosol at Wrangel Island in the eastern Soviet Arctic. The samples were analyzed by optical transmission to determine the concentration of aerosol black'' carbon (BC), with results ranging from 5...