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Atmospheric composition in the European Arctic and 30 years of the Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-Ålesund
Stephen M. Platt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Øystein Hov
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Henrik Mohns Plass 1, 0371 Oslo,
Norway
Torunn Berg
Department of
Chemistry, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Knut Breivik
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Sabine Eckhardt
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, NCSR “Demokritos” – Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and
Technology, Energy and Safety, 15310
Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Evangeliou
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Markus Fiebig
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Rebecca Fisher
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, TW20 0EY, UK
Georg Hansen
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Hans-Christen Hansson
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Jost Heintzenberg
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstrasse. 15,
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Ove Hermansen
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Dominic Heslin-Rees
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Kim Holmén
NPI – Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, P. O. Box 6606 Langnes, 9296
Tromsø, Norway
Stephen Hudson
NPI – Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, P. O. Box 6606 Langnes, 9296
Tromsø, Norway
Roland Kallenborn
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Radovan Krejci
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Terje Krognes
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Steinar Larssen
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
David Lowry
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, TW20 0EY, UK
Cathrine Lund Myhre
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Chris Lunder
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Euan Nisbet
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, TW20 0EY, UK
Pernilla B. Nizzetto
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Ki-Tae Park
KOPRI – Korea Polar Research Institute, 26, Songdo Mirae-ro,
Yeonsu-Gu, Incheon 21990, Republic of Korea
Christina A. Pedersen
NPI – Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, P. O. Box 6606 Langnes, 9296
Tromsø, Norway
Katrine Aspmo Pfaffhuber
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Thomas Röckmann
IMAU – Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht,
Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.011, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Norbert Schmidbauer
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Sverre Solberg
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Andreas Stohl
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
now at: Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of
Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Johan Ström
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Tove Svendby
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Peter Tunved
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Kjersti Tørnkvist
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Carina van der Veen
IMAU – Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht,
Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.011, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Stergios Vratolis
Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, NCSR “Demokritos” – Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and
Technology, Energy and Safety, 15310
Athens, Greece
Young Jun Yoon
KOPRI – Korea Polar Research Institute, 26, Songdo Mirae-ro,
Yeonsu-Gu, Incheon 21990, Republic of Korea
Karl Espen Yttri
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Paul Zieger
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Wenche Aas
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Kjetil Tørseth
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller,
Norway
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Short summary
Here we detail the history of the Zeppelin Observatory, a unique global background site and one of only a few in the high Arctic. We present long-term time series of up to 30 years of atmospheric components and atmospheric transport phenomena. Many of these time series are important to our understanding of Arctic and global atmospheric composition change. Finally, we discuss the future of the Zeppelin Observatory and emerging areas of future research on the Arctic atmosphere.
Here we detail the history of the Zeppelin Observatory, a unique global background site and one...
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