Characteristics of atmospheric transport into the Arctic troposphere
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The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART was used to construct a global data set of 1.4 million continuous trajectories. At the model start, particles were distributed homogeneously in the atmosphere and were then transported for 5.5 years using both resolved winds from European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts analyses and parameterized turbulent and convective transport. On the basis of this data set, a climatology of transport in and to the Arctic was developed. It was found that the time air resides continuously north of 70°N, called its Arctic age, is highest near the surface in the North American sector of the Arctic. North of 80°N and near the surface, the mean Arctic age of air is about 1 week in winter and 2 weeks in summer. It decreases rapidly with altitude to about 3 days in the upper troposphere. In the most isolated regions of the Arctic, air is exposed to continuous darkness for, on average, 10–14 days in December. Transport from the stratosphere to the lower troposphere is much slower in the Arctic than in the middle latitudes. In the central Arctic, for instance, the probability that air near the surface was transported from the stratosphere within 10 days is only about 1% in winter and 0.3% in summer. Air pollution can be transported into the Arctic along three different pathways: low‐level transport followed by ascent in the Arctic, low‐level transport alone, and uplift outside the Arctic, followed by descent in the Arctic. Only this last…
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The highest atmospheric concentration of pollutants occurs in the once pristine and particularly vulnerable ecosystems of northern Siberia.
“we know that the highest atmospheric concentration of pollutants occurs in the once pristine and particularly vulnerable ecosystems of northern Siberia (Stohl, 2006; Arnold et al ., 2016).”
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The wintertime Arctic boundary layer circulation pattern facilitates transportation and accumulation of air pollutants from lower latitudes into the Arctic.
“This circulation pattern is typical of the wintertime Arctic boundary layer, which facilitates transportation and accumulation of air pollutants from lower latitudes into the Arctic (Stohl, 2006; Arnold et al ., 2016).”
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- Authors
- Stohl, A.
- Affiliations
- NILU (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Stohl, A.
- ORCID
- Stohl, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2006-06-09
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- D11
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2086888682
- Cited by
- 767
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 13.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Keywords
- Arctic troposphere, atmospheric transport, stratosphere-troposphere exchange, air mass back trajectories, black carbon, forest fires, anthropogenic emissions, emission sensitivity, long-range transport
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