Aspects of Atmospheric Pollution in Siberia

Baklanov, Alexander; Penenko, Vladimir; Mahura, Alexander; Виноградова, А. А.; Elansky, N. F.; Tsvetova, Elena; Rigina, Olga; Maksimenkov, L. O.; Nuterman, Roman; Погарский, Ф. А.; Zakey, A. S.

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“…Such sites will be critical for understanding how Arctic environmental change and changes in local sources affect future Arctic air pollutant abundances in the coming years and decades. Surface sites are most sensitive to local and Eurasian emissions (Baklanov et al, 2013), and so provide much less information on transport of pollution from North American and Asian sources. Models display diverse and often poor skill in simulating Arctic pollution enhancements both at the surface and throughout the depth of the Arctic troposphere Monks et al, 2015;Eckhardt et al, 2015;Figs.…”

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Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade

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The Arctic is a sentinel of global change. This region is influenced by multiple physical and socio-economic drivers and feedbacks, impacting both the natural and human environment. Air pollution is one such driver that impacts Arctic climate change, ecosystems and health but significant uncertainties still surround quantification of these effects. Arctic air pollution includes harmful trace gases (e.g. tropospheric ozone) and particles (e.g. black carbon, sulphate) and toxic substances (e.g. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) that can be transported to the Arctic from emission sources located far outside the region, or emitted within the Arctic from activities including shipping, power production, and other industrial activities. This paper qualitatively summarizes the complex science issues motivating the creation of a new international initiative, PACES (air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies). Approaches for coordinated, international and interdisciplinary research on this topic are described with the goal to improve predictive capability via new understanding about sources, processes, feedbacks and impacts of Arctic air pollution. Overarching research actions are outlined, in which we describe our recommendations for 1) the development of trans-disciplinary approaches combining social and economic research with investigation of the chemical and physical aspects Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade of Arctic air pollution; 2) increasing the quality and quantity of observations in the Arctic using long-term monitoring and intensive field studies, both at the surface and throughout the troposphere; and 3) developing improved predictive capability across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Domain Editor-in-Chief

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“…However previous results for anthropogenic black carbon (BC) are also available (Vinogradova and Veremeichik 2013a, b). The forward trajectory approach was applied for two major anthropogenic source regions for the central Arctic, namely the Kola Peninsula and the Norilsk region-situated in the Russian sub-Arctic/boreal region (Vinogradova et al 2008a, b, c;Baklanov et al 2013). The decadal averaged spatial distributions of forward trajectories and pollution characteristics from each source for selected months were calculated in each cell of spatial grid (1°× 1°) and mapped ( Fig.…”

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“…At high latitudes, higher fluxes onto the surface may be observed during spring and fall as a result of higher precipitation frequency (mainly in the liquid form) in combination with still (or already) considerable concentrations of heavy metals in the air. For the forecasts, it is important that the cleaner air at the place will not guarantee the safer surface environment there (Baklanov et al 2013). Although HM concentrations in air, water, and soil within the Arctic region do not exceed maximum permissible concentrations (MPC), the detected Pb and Cd amounts in muscles, livers, and kidneys of Arctic reindeers, predatory animals, and birds often exceed their MPC as a result of HM deposition in natural food chains (AMAP 1998(AMAP , 2015Soinienen et al 2005;Van Oostdam et al 2005).…”

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Aeolian and Ice Transport of Matter (Including Pollutants) in the Arctic

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“…Large industrial complexes may lead to local forest diebacks, as has been observed in the Kola region (e.g. Nöjd and Kauppi, 1995;Tikkanen, 1995;Kukkola et al, 1997) and in some regions of Siberia (Baklanov et al, 2013). Societal transformations may lead to abandoning of agricultural land or deterioration of previously managed forests.…”

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Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): Towards holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the Northern Eurasian region

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The Northern Eurasian regions and Arctic Ocean will very likely undergo substantial changes during the next decades. The arctic-boreal natural environments play a crucial role in the global climate via the albedo change, carbon sources and sinks, as well as atmospheric aerosol production via biogenic volatile organic compounds. Furthermore, it is expected that the global trade activities, demographic movement and use of natural resources will be increasing in the Arctic regions. There is a need for a novel research approach, which not only identifies and tackles the relevant multi-disciplinary research questions, but is also able to make a holistic system analysis of the expected feedbacks. In this paper, we introduce the research agenda of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary and international program started in 2012 (<a href="https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/"target="_blank">https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/</a>). PEEX is setting a research approach where large-scale research topics are investigated from a system perspective and which aims to fill the key gaps in our understanding of the feedbacks and interactions between the land&#8211;atmosphere&#8211;aquatic&#8211;society continuum in the Northern Eurasian region. We introduce here the state of the art of the key topics in the PEEX research agenda and give the future prospects of the research which we see relevant in this context.</p>

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Aspects of Atmospheric Pollution in Siberia

Cited by 14 publications

References 55 publications

Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade

Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade

Aeolian and Ice Transport of Matter (Including Pollutants) in the Arctic

Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): Towards holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the Northern Eurasian region

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