Sources and Radiative Absorption of Water-Soluble Brown Carbon in the High Arctic Atmosphere

Siyao Yue; Srinivas Bikkina; Meng Gao; Leonard A. Barrie; Kimitaka Kawamura; Pingqing Fu

doi:10.1029/2019GL085318

Sources and Radiative Absorption of Water-Soluble Brown Carbon in the High Arctic Atmosphere

Siyao Yue
, Srinivas Bikkina
, Meng Gao
, Leonard A. Barrie
, Kimitaka Kawamura
, Pingqing Fu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Brown carbon (BrC) is a source of light-absorbing aerosols. The Arctic is more sensitive to emissions of light-absorbing aerosols than lower latitudes. Knowledge of BrC in a historical period is beneficial to understand its role in a changing climate. Here, we present measurement of water-soluble BrC (WS-BrC) for the Arctic aerosols during late winter-late spring in 1991. Mass absorption coefficient (0.07 ± 0.04 M/m) and efficiency (0.41 ± 0.21 m²/g) at 365 nm of WS-BrC were lower than those in polluted urban and rural regions. WS-BrC was mainly from biomass burning/combustion (dark winter to mid-March) and marine sources connected with photochemical gas to particle conversion (after polar sunrise to June). Solar radiative absorption of WS-BrC relative to elemental carbon was 5% on average in February to April and surged to 34% after mid-May. This study helps in understanding the role of BrC in the Arctic climate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14881-14891
Number of pages	11
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	46
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085318
Publication status	Published - 28 Dec 2019

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