Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

A central arctic extreme aerosol event triggered by a warm air-mass intrusion

  • Lubna Dada,
  • Hélène Angot,
  • Ivo Beck,
  • Andrea Baccarini,
  • Lauriane L. J. Quéléver,
  • Matthew Boyer,
  • Tiia Laurila,
  • Zoé Brasseur,
  • Gina Jozef,
  • Gijs de Boer,
  • Matthew D. Shupe,
  • Silvia Henning,
  • Silvia Bucci,
  • Marina Dütsch,
  • Andreas Stohl,
  • Tuukka Petäjä,
  • Kaspar R. Daellenbach,
  • Tuija Jokinen,
  • Julia Schmale

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32872-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Warm and moist air-mass intrusions into the Arctic are more frequent than the past decades. Here, the authors show that warm air mass intrusions from northern Eurasia inject record amounts of aerosols into the central Arctic Ocean strongly impacting atmospheric chemistry and cloud properties.