Wildfires in northern Eurasia affect the budget of black carbon in the  Arctic – a 12-year retrospective synopsis (2002–2013)

Evangeliou, N.; Balkanski, Y.; Hao, W. M.; Petkov, A.; Silverstein, R. P.; Corley, R.; Nordgren, B. L.; Urbanski, S. P.; Eckhardt, S.; Stohl, A.; Tunved, P.; Crepinsek, S.; Jefferson, A.; Sharma, S.; Nøjgaard, J. K.; Skov, H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7587-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7587-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7587-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

Research article

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21 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 21 Jun 2016

Wildfires in northern Eurasia affect the budget of black carbon in the Arctic – a 12-year retrospective synopsis (2002–2013)

N. Evangeliou, Y. Balkanski, W. M. Hao, A. Petkov, R. P. Silverstein, R. Corley, B. L. Nordgren, S. P. Urbanski, S. Eckhardt, A. Stohl, P. Tunved, S. Crepinsek, A. Jefferson, S. Sharma, J. K. Nøjgaard, and H. Skov

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SC1: 'Different emission inventories', Anina Gilgen, 16 Mar 2016
- SC2: 'Interactive comment on “Wildfires in Northern Eurasia affect the budget of black carbon in the Arctic. A 12-year retrospective synopsis (2002–2013).”', Nikolaos Evangeliou, 16 Mar 2016
RC1: 'Review: Wildfires in Northern Eurasia affect the budget of black carbon in the Arctic. A 12-year retrospective synopsis (2002–2013).', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Mar 2016
- AC2: 'Response to #1 reviewers' comments', Nikolaos Evangeliou, 05 May 2016
RC2: 'Review of "Wildfires in Northern Eurasia affect the budget of black carbon in the Arctic. A 12-year retrospective synopsis (2002–2013).” by N. Evangeliou et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'Response to #2 reviewers' comments', Nikolaos Evangeliou, 05 May 2016
AC1: 'Response to #1 reviewers' comments', Nikolaos Evangeliou, 05 May 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Nikolaos Evangeliou on behalf of the Authors (05 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 May 2016) by Federico Fierli

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 May 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (27 May 2016) by Federico Fierli

AR by Nikolaos Evangeliou on behalf of the Authors (02 Jun 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this study, we focused on how vegetation fires that occurred in northern Eurasia during the period 2002–2013 influenced the budget of BC in the Arctic. An average area of 250 000 km² yr⁻¹ was burned in northern Eurasia and the global emissions of BC ranged between 8.0 and 9.5 Tg yr⁻¹, while 102 ± 29 kt yr⁻¹ BC from biomass burning was deposited on the Arctic. About 46 % of the Arctic BC from vegetation fires originated from Siberia, 6 % from Kazakhstan, 5 % from Europe, and about 1 % from Mon