Data · dataset · 2026
Measured and modeled trends of seven tropospheric pollutants in the high Arctic from 1999 to 2022
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The long-term trends and seasonality of many tropospheric pollutants are not well characterized in the high Arctic due to a dearth of trace-gas measurements in this remote region.
Description
In this study, the inter- and intra-annual variabilities of carbon monoxide (CO), acetylene (C2H2), ethane (C2H6), methanol (CH3OH), formaldehyde (H2CO), formic acid (HCOOH), and peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) in the high Arctic region were derived from the total column time-series of ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) measurements at Eureka, Nunavut (80.05 degrees N, 86.42 degrees W, 2006-2020) and Thule, Greenland (76.53 degrees N, 68.74 degrees W, 1999-2022).
Consistent seasonal cycles were observed in the FTIR measurements at both sites for all species. Negative trends were observed for CO, C2H2, and CH3OH at both sites, and for HCOOH at Eureka. Positive trends were detected for C2H6 and H2CO at both sites, and for PAN at Eureka.
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Additionally, a 19-year simulation was performed using the novel GEOS-Chem High Performance model v14.1.1 for the period of 2003-2021. The model was able to reproduce the observed seasonality of all gases, but all species showed negative biases relative to observations, and CH3OH was found to have a particularly large bias of approximately -70% relative to the FTIR measurements. The GEOS-Chem modeled trends broadly agreed with observations for all species except C2H6, H2CO, and PAN, which were found to have opposite trends in the model.
For some species, the measurement-model differences are suspected to be the result of errors or underestimations in the emissions inventories used in the simulation.
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- data.ucar.edu /dataset/measured-and-modeled-trends-of-seven-tropospheric-poll… ↗
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Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Simulation 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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