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Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign |
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H. Bian, P. R. Colarco, M. Chin, G. Chen, J. M. Rodriguez, Q. Liang, D. Blake, D. A. Chu, A. Silva, A. S. Darmenov, G. Diskin, H. E. Fuelberg, G. Huey, Y. Kondo, J. E. Nielsen, X. Pan, A. Wisthaler |
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Englisch
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1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 13, no. 9 ; Nr. 13, no. 9 (2013-05-07), S.4707-4721 |
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250018636
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copernicus.org/acp-13-4707-2013.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
We use the NASA GEOS-5 transport model with tagged tracers to investigate
the contributions of different regional sources of CO and black carbon (BC)
to their concentrations in the Western Arctic (i.e., 50–90° N and
190–320° E) in spring and summer 2008. The model is evaluated by
comparing the results with airborne measurements of CO and BC from the NASA
Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and
Satellites (ARCTAS) field campaigns to demonstrate the strengths and
limitations of our simulations. We also examine the reliability of tagged CO
tracers in characterizing air mass origins using the measured fossil fuel
tracer of dichloromethane and the biomass burning tracer of acetonitrile.
Our tagged CO simulations suggest that most of the enhanced CO
concentrations (above background level from CH4 production) observed
during April originate from Asian anthropogenic emissions. Boreal biomass
burning emissions and Asian anthropogenic emissions are of similar
importance in July domain wise, although the biomass burning CO fraction is
much larger in the area of the ARCTAS field experiments. The fraction of CO
from Asian anthropogenic emissions is larger in spring than in summer.
European sources make up no more than 10% of CO levels in the campaign
domain during either period. Comparisons of CO concentrations along the
flight tracks with regional averages from GEOS-5 show that the along-track
measurements are representative of the concentrations within the large
domain of the Western Arctic in April but not in July. |
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