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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10545-2020
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Vertical profiles of light absorption and scattering associated with black carbon particle fractions in the springtime Arctic above 79° N
W. Richard Leaitch
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
John K. Kodros
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
now at: Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE), Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Patras, Greece
Megan D. Willis
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
now at: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Sarah Hanna
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
now at: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Hannes Schulz
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Elisabeth Andrews
CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO, USA
Heiko Bozem
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Julia Burkart
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
now at: Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Peter Hoor
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Felicia Kolonjari
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
John A. Ogren
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO, USA
Sangeeta Sharma
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
now at: Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada
Knut von Salzen
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Allan K. Bertram
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Andreas Herber
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Jonathan P. D. Abbatt
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jeffrey R. Pierce
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Short summary
Black carbon is a factor in the warming of the Arctic atmosphere due to its ability to absorb light, but the uncertainty is high and few observations have been made in the high Arctic above 80° N. We combine airborne and ground-based observations in the springtime Arctic, at and above 80° N, with simulations from a global model to show that light absorption by black carbon may be much larger than modelled. However, the uncertainty remains high.
Black carbon is a factor in the warming of the Arctic atmosphere due to its ability to absorb...
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