Biomass burning in Siberia and Kazakhstan as an important source for haze over the Alaskan Arctic in April 2008
Abstract
During the ARCPAC (Aerosol, Radiation, and Cloud Processes affecting Arctic Climate) airborne field experiment in April 2008 in northern Alaska, about 50 plumes were encountered with the NOAA WP‐3 aircraft between the surface and 6.5 km. Onboard measurements and the transport model FLEXPART showed that most of the plumes were emitted by forest fires in southern Siberia‐Lake Baikal area and by agricultural burning in Kazakhstan‐southern Russia. Unexpectedly, these biomass burning plumes were the dominant aerosol and gas‐phase features encountered in this area during April. The influence on the plumes from sources other than burning was small. The chemical characteristics of plumes from the two source regions were different, with higher enhancements relative to CO for most gas and aerosol species from the agricultural fires. In 2008, the fire season started earlier than usual in Siberia, which may have resulted in unusually efficient transport of biomass burning emissions into the Arctic.
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Boreal wildfires and agricultural fires are another source of air pollutants in the Arctic.
“Boreal wild fi res and agricultural fi res (crop burning) are another source of air pollutants in the Arctic (Warneke et al., 2009).”
From Local Arctic Air Pollution: A Neglected but Serious Problem (2018) · cites this paper as Warneke et al., 2009
While fires lead to increases in PM concentrations in the Arctic, such events tend to result from fires occurring at lower latitudes in Eurasia, particularly in Eastern Europe and Siberia, with subsequent transport of pollutants northward.
“While fi res lead to increases in PM concentrations in the Arctic (Warneke et al., 2009; Yttri et al., 2014), such events tend to result from fi res occurring at lower latitudes in Eurasia, particularly in Eastern Europe and Siberia, with subsequent transport of pollutants northward (Paris et al., 2009; Stohl et al., 2007).”
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- Authors
- Warneke, C., Bahreini, R., Brioude, J., Brock, C. A., de Gouw, J. A., Fahey, D. W., Froyd, K. D., Holloway, J. S., Middlebrook, A., Miller, L., Montzka, S., Murphy, D. M., Peischl, J., Ryerson, T. B., Schwarz, J. P., Spackman, J. R., & Veres, P.
- Affiliations
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
- NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (US)
- Chemical Sciences Division NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Boulder Colorado USA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W1952525616
- Cited by
- 260
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- FWCI
- 19.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Keywords
- biomass burning, haze, Arctic aerosols, agricultural burning, Lake Baikal, Kazakhstan, long-range transport, FLEXPART, fire season timing, carbon monoxide
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