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Arctic smoke – aerosol characteristics during a record smoke event in the European Arctic and its radiative impact |
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R. Treffeisen, P. Tunved, J. Ström, A. Herber, J. Bareiss, A. Helbig, R. S. Stone, W. Hoyningen-Huene, R. Krejci, A. Stohl, R. Neuber |
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Englisch
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1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 7, no. 11 ; Nr. 7, no. 11 (2007-06-14), S.3035-3053 |
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250005045
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/acp-7-3035-2007.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| In early May 2006 a record high air pollution event was observed at
Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen. An atypical weather pattern established a
pathway for the rapid transport of biomass burning aerosols from
agricultural fires in Eastern Europe to the Arctic. Atmospheric stability
was such that the smoke was constrained to low levels, within 2 km of the
surface during the transport. A description of this smoke event in terms of
transport and main aerosol characteristics can be found in Stohl et al. (2007). This study puts emphasis on the radiative effect of the smoke. The
aerosol number size distribution was characterised by lognormal parameters
as having an accumulation mode centered around 165–185 nm and almost 1.6 for
geometric standard deviation of the mode. Nucleation and small Aitken mode
particles were almost completely suppressed within the smoke plume measured
at Ny-Ålesund. Chemical and microphysical aerosol information obtained
at Mt. Zeppelin (474 m a.s.l) was used to derive input parameters for a
one-dimensional radiation transfer model to explore the radiative effects of
the smoke. The daily mean heating rate calculated on 2 May 2006 for the
average size distribution and measured chemical composition reached 0.55 K day−1 at 0.5 km altitude for the assumed external mixture of the
aerosols but showing much higher heating rates for an internal mixture (1.7 K day−1). In comparison a case study for March 2000 showed that the
local climatic effects due to Arctic haze, using a regional climate model,
HIRHAM, amounts to a maximum of 0.3 K day−1 of heating at 2 km altitude
(Treffeisen et al., 2005). |
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