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Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1393-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1393-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Research article
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01 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2019

Open fires in Greenland in summer 2017: transport, deposition and radiative effects of BC, OC and BrC emissions

Nikolaos Evangeliou, Arve Kylling, Sabine Eckhardt, Viktor Myroniuk, Kerstin Stebel, Ronan Paugam, Sergiy Zibtsev, and Andreas Stohl

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We simulated the peatland fires that burned in Greenland in summer 2017. Using satellite data, we estimated that the total burned area was 2345 ha, the fuel amount consumed 117 kt C and the emissions of BC, OC and BrC 23.5, 731 and 141 t, respectively. About 30 % of the emissions were deposited on snow or ice surfaces. This caused a maximum albedo change of 0.007 and a surface radiative forcing of 0.03–0.04 W m−2, with local maxima of up to 0.63–0.77 W m−2. Overall, the fires had a small impact.
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