Siberian Arctic black carbon: gas flaring and wildfire impact

Popovicheva, Olga B.; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Kobelev, Vasilii O.; Chichaeva, Marina A.; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Gregorič, Asta; Kasimov, Nikolay S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5983-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5983-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5983-2022

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Articles | Volume 22, issue 9

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06 May 2022

Research article |

| 06 May 2022

Siberian Arctic black carbon: gas flaring and wildfire impact

Olga B. Popovicheva, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Vasilii O. Kobelev, Marina A. Chichaeva, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Asta Gregorič, and Nikolay S. Kasimov

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FLEXPART products for BC measurements (ECLIPSEv6-CAMS) N. Evangeliou https://niflheim.nilu.no/NikolaosPY/Bely_2020_cams.py

FLEXPART products for BC measurements (ECLIPSEv6-Huang-CAMS) N. Evangeliou https://niflheim.nilu.no/NikolaosPY/Bely_2020_huang_cams.py

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Measurements of black carbon (BC) combined with atmospheric transport modeling reveal that gas flaring from oil and gas extraction in Kazakhstan, Volga-Ural, Komi, Nenets and western Siberia contributes the largest share of surface BC in the Russian Arctic dominating over domestic, industrial and traffic sectors. Pollution episodes show an increasing trend in concentration levels and frequency as the station is in the Siberian gateway of the highest anthropogenic pollution to the Russian Arctic.