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Convective forcing of mercury and ozone in the Arctic boundary layer induced by leads in sea ice

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  • Christopher W. Moore

    (Desert Research Institute)

  • Daniel Obrist

    (Desert Research Institute)

  • Alexandra Steffen

    (Air Quality Processes Research Section, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada)

  • Ralf M. Staebler

    (Air Quality Processes Research Section, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada)

  • Thomas A. Douglas

    (US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory)

  • Andreas Richter

    (Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen 28359, Germany)

  • Son V. Nghiem

    (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Sea-ice leads (open water channels), which increase with an ongoing shift from perennial to seasonal sea ice, are shown to initiate convection in the Arctic boundary layer, thus supplying ozone and gaseous mercury to the surface and possibly leading to additional pollution effects.

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  • Christopher W. Moore & Daniel Obrist & Alexandra Steffen & Ralf M. Staebler & Thomas A. Douglas & Andreas Richter & Son V. Nghiem, 2014. "Convective forcing of mercury and ozone in the Arctic boundary layer induced by leads in sea ice," Nature, Nature, vol. 506(7486), pages 81-84, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:506:y:2014:i:7486:d:10.1038_nature12924
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12924
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    1. Fange Yue & Hélène Angot & Byron Blomquist & Julia Schmale & Clara J. M. Hoppe & Ruibo Lei & Matthew D. Shupe & Liyang Zhan & Jian Ren & Hailong Liu & Ivo Beck & Dean Howard & Tuija Jokinen & Tiia Lau, 2023. "The Marginal Ice Zone as a dominant source region of atmospheric mercury during central Arctic summertime," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-13, December.
    2. Beatriz Ferreira Araujo & Stefan Osterwalder & Natalie Szponar & Domenica Lee & Mariia V. Petrova & Jakob Boyd Pernov & Shaddy Ahmed & Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida & Laure Laffont & Roman Teisserenc &, 2022. "Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.

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