The influence of local oil exploration and regional wildfires on summer 2015 aerosol over the North Slope of Alaska

Creamean, Jessie M.; Maahn, Maximilian; de Boer, Gijs; McComiskey, Allison; Sedlacek, Arthur J.; Feng, Yan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-555-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-555-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-555-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

Research article

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18 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 18 Jan 2018

The influence of local oil exploration and regional wildfires on summer 2015 aerosol over the North Slope of Alaska

Jessie M. Creamean, Maximilian Maahn, Gijs de Boer, Allison McComiskey, Arthur J. Sedlacek, and Yan Feng

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RC1: 'comments on Creamean et al., 2017', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Aug 2017
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Jessie Creamean, 17 Oct 2017
RC2: 'Review of Creamean et al., 2017', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Jessie Creamean, 17 Oct 2017
RC3: 'Comments on Creamean et al., 2017 –Anonymous referee 3', Anonymous Referee #3, 15 Aug 2017
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer 3', Jessie Creamean, 17 Oct 2017

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

AR by Jessie Creamean on behalf of the Authors (19 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Oct 2017) by Anja Schmidt

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Nov 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (20 Nov 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (24 Nov 2017) by Anja Schmidt

AR by Jessie Creamean on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Dec 2017) by Anja Schmidt

AR by Jessie Creamean on behalf of the Authors (07 Dec 2017)

Short summary

We report on airborne observations from the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program's Fifth Airborne Carbon Measurements (ACME-V) campaign along the North Slope of Alaska during the summer of 2015. We show how local oil extraction activities, 2015's central Alaskan wildfires, and, to a lesser extent, long-range transport introduce aerosols and trace gases higher in concentration than previously reported in Arctic haze measurements to the North Slope.