Long-term time series of Arctic tropospheric BrO derived from UV–VIS satellite remote sensing and its relation to first-year sea ice

Bougoudis, Ilias; Blechschmidt, Anne-Marlene; Richter, Andreas; Seo, Sora; Burrows, John Philip; Theys, Nicolas; Rinke, Annette

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11869-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11869-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11869-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

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22 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 22 Oct 2020

Long-term time series of Arctic tropospheric BrO derived from UV–VIS satellite remote sensing and its relation to first-year sea ice

Ilias Bougoudis, Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt, Andreas Richter, Sora Seo, John Philip Burrows, Nicolas Theys, and Annette Rinke

Data sets

Climatologies of Geometric and Tropospheric BrO Vertical Column Densities derived from multiple UV-Vis Satellite Remote Sensors for Polar Spring over the Arctic I. Bougoudis, A.-M. Blechschmidt, A. Richter, S. Seo, and J. P. Burrows https://doi. pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.906046

EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age M. Tschudi,W. N. Meier, J. S. Stewart, C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik https://doi.org/10.5067/UTAV7490FEPB

Short summary

A 22-year (1996 to 2017) consistent Arctic tropospheric BrO dataset derived from four satellite remote sensing instruments is presented. An increase in tropospheric BrO VCDs over this period, and especially during polar springs, can be seen. Comparisons of tropospheric BrO VCDs with first-year sea ice reveal a moderate spatial and temporal correlation between the two, suggesting that the increase in first-year sea ice in the Arctic has an impact on tropospheric BrO abundancies.