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Research article |
| 29 Feb 2024
| 29 Feb 2024
Composition and sources of carbonaceous aerosol in the European Arctic at Zeppelin Observatory, Svalbard (2017 to 2020)
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Are Bäcklund
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Franz Conen
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Sabine Eckhardt
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Nikolaos Evangeliou
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Markus Fiebig
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Anne Kasper-Giebl
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
Avram Gold
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Hans Gundersen
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Cathrine Lund Myhre
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Stephen Matthew Platt
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
David Simpson
EMEP MSC-W, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
Jason D. Surratt
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Sönke Szidat
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Martin Rauber
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Kjetil Tørseth
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Martin Album Ytre-Eide
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
Zhenfa Zhang
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Wenche Aas
NILU, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
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Short summary
We discuss carbonaceous aerosol (CA) observed at the high Arctic Zeppelin Observatory (2017 to 2020). We find that organic aerosol is a significant fraction of the Arctic aerosol, though less than sea salt aerosol and mineral dust, as well as non-sea-salt sulfate, originating mainly from anthropogenic sources in winter and from natural sources in summer, emphasizing the importance of wildfires for biogenic secondary organic aerosol and primary biological aerosol particles observed in the Arctic.
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