Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Mar 2022)
Atmospheric composition in the European Arctic and 30 years of the Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-Ålesund
- S. M. Platt,
- Ø. Hov,
- T. Berg,
- K. Breivik,
- S. Eckhardt,
- K. Eleftheriadis,
- N. Evangeliou,
- M. Fiebig,
- R. Fisher,
- G. Hansen,
- H.-C. Hansson,
- J. Heintzenberg,
- O. Hermansen,
- D. Heslin-Rees,
- K. Holmén,
- S. Hudson,
- R. Kallenborn,
- R. Krejci,
- T. Krognes,
- S. Larssen,
- D. Lowry,
- C. Lund Myhre,
- C. Lunder,
- E. Nisbet,
- P. B. Nizetto,
- K.-T. Park,
- C. A. Pedersen,
- K. Aspmo Pfaffhuber,
- T. Röckmann,
- N. Schmidbauer,
- S. Solberg,
- A. Stohl,
- A. Stohl,
- J. Ström,
- T. Svendby,
- P. Tunved,
- K. Tørnkvist,
- C. van der Veen,
- S. Vratolis,
- Y. J. Yoon,
- K. E. Yttri,
- P. Zieger,
- W. Aas,
- K. Tørseth
Affiliations
- S. M. Platt
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- Ø. Hov
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Henrik Mohns Plass 1, 0371 Oslo, Norway
- T. Berg
- Department of Chemistry, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
- K. Breivik
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- S. Eckhardt
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- K. Eleftheriadis
- Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, NCSR “Demokritos” – Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy and Safety, 15310 Athens, Greece
- N. Evangeliou
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- M. Fiebig
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- R. Fisher
- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EY, UK
- G. Hansen
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- H.-C. Hansson
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- J. Heintzenberg
- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstrasse. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- O. Hermansen
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- D. Heslin-Rees
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- K. Holmén
- NPI – Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, P. O. Box 6606 Langnes, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
- S. Hudson
- NPI – Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, P. O. Box 6606 Langnes, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
- R. Kallenborn
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- R. Krejci
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- T. Krognes
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- S. Larssen
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- D. Lowry
- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EY, UK
- C. Lund Myhre
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- C. Lunder
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- E. Nisbet
- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EY, UK
- P. B. Nizetto
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- K.-T. Park
- KOPRI – Korea Polar Research Institute, 26, Songdo Mirae-ro, Yeonsu-Gu, Incheon 21990, Republic of Korea
- C. A. Pedersen
- NPI – Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, P. O. Box 6606 Langnes, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
- K. Aspmo Pfaffhuber
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- T. Röckmann
- IMAU – Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.011, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
- N. Schmidbauer
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- S. Solberg
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- A. Stohl
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- A. Stohl
- now at: Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- J. Ström
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- T. Svendby
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- P. Tunved
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- K. Tørnkvist
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- C. van der Veen
- IMAU – Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.011, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
- S. Vratolis
- Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, NCSR “Demokritos” – Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy and Safety, 15310 Athens, Greece
- Y. J. Yoon
- KOPRI – Korea Polar Research Institute, 26, Songdo Mirae-ro, Yeonsu-Gu, Incheon 21990, Republic of Korea
- K. E. Yttri
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- P. Zieger
- Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- W. Aas
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- K. Tørseth
- NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P. O. Box 100, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3321-2022
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 22
pp. 3321 – 3369
Abstract
The Zeppelin Observatory (78.90∘ N, 11.88∘ E) is located on Zeppelin Mountain at 472 m a.s.l. on Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Established in 1989, the observatory is part of Ny-Ålesund Research Station and an important atmospheric measurement site, one of only a few in the high Arctic, and a part of several European and global monitoring programmes and research infrastructures, notably the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP); the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP); the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW); the Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRIS); the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) network; and the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS). The observatory is jointly operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Stockholm University, and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). Here we detail the establishment of the Zeppelin Observatory including historical measurements of atmospheric composition in the European Arctic leading to its construction. We present a history of the measurements at the observatory and review the current state of the European Arctic atmosphere, including results from trends in greenhouse gases, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), other traces gases, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals, aerosols and Arctic haze, and atmospheric transport phenomena, and provide an outline of future research directions.
