Arctic air pollution: Origins and impacts

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5818, 2007, Pages 1537-1540

  Law, Kathy S ^a   Stohl, Andreas ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; OZONE; SNOW;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CARBON EMISSION; FOREST FIRE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; OZONE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 33947395562     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137695     Document Type: Review

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57. This work was supported by the Norwegian Research Council and the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in the framework of the Polar Study Using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Modeling of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport (POLARCAT) project. We thank the POLARCAT community for the exchange of ideas. We also appreciate the discussions with colleagues during and after a workshop organized by J. Hansen on Arctic climate and air pollution held in New York in January 2007.