Articles | Volume 24, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5863-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-5863-2024
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23 May 2024
Research article |  | 23 May 2024

Surface snow bromide and nitrate at Eureka, Canada, in early spring and implications for polar boundary layer chemistry

Xin Yang, Kimberly Strong, Alison S. Criscitiello, Marta Santos-Garcia, Kristof Bognar, Xiaoyi Zhao, Pierre Fogal, Kaley A. Walker, Sara M. Morris, and Peter Effertz

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Snow chemical compositions, salinity, surface ozone, BrO and meteorology data at Eureka, Canada in spring of 2018/19 (Version 1.0) Xin Yang and Kimberly Strong https://doi.org/10.5285/5b75a1dc-6f24-43bc-b93a-c1dcf633f12a

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This study uses snow samples collected from a Canadian high Arctic site, Eureka, to demonstrate that surface snow in early spring is a net sink of atmospheric bromine and nitrogen. Surface snow bromide and nitrate are significantly correlated, indicating the oxidation of reactive nitrogen is accelerated by reactive bromine. In addition, we show evidence that snow photochemical release of reactive bromine is very weak, and its emission flux is much smaller than the deposition flux of bromide.
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