“…For the Atmospheric system, the recent progress in understanding the Northern Eurasian Arctic -boreal land atmospheric system and the aspects of the megacity air quality (section 3.2) are dealing with atmospheric composition changes (Q4), key feedbacks between climate and air quality (Q5), and synoptic scale weather (Q6). Recent results demonstrate improved quantification of the carbon balance and CO2 fluxes and concentrations due to land use changes (Pulliainen et al, 2017, Karelin et al, 2017, Rakitin et al, 2018, Alekseychik et al 2017, forest fires in Siberia, and new understanding of aerosol sources and properties in the Arctic environment and across the Northern Eurasia. However, most of the results deal with atmospheric aerosol chemistry and physics in boreal and Arctic environments originating from measurements in the few flagship stations in Finland and Russia (Kerminen et al, 2018, Freud et al, 2017, Östrom et al, 2017, Kalogridis et al, 2018, Bondur and Ginzburg 2016c,d, Bondur and Gordo, 2018Mikhailov et al, 2017, Breider et al, 2017, indicating the need for a comprehensive station network in the PEEX region.…”