Nature Communications (Feb 2022)
Black carbon footprint of human presence in Antarctica
- Raúl R. Cordero,
- Edgardo Sepúlveda,
- Sarah Feron,
- Alessandro Damiani,
- Francisco Fernandoy,
- Steven Neshyba,
- Penny M. Rowe,
- Valentina Asencio,
- Jorge Carrasco,
- Juan A. Alfonso,
- Pedro Llanillo,
- Paul Wachter,
- Gunther Seckmeyer,
- Marina Stepanova,
- Juan M. Carrera,
- Jose Jorquera,
- Chenghao Wang,
- Avni Malhotra,
- Jacob Dana,
- Alia L. Khan,
- Gino Casassa
Affiliations
- Raúl R. Cordero
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Bernardo O’Higgins
- Edgardo Sepúlveda
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Bernardo O’Higgins
- Sarah Feron
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Bernardo O’Higgins
- Alessandro Damiani
- Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University
- Francisco Fernandoy
- Universidad Andrés Bello
- Steven Neshyba
- University of Puget Sound, Department of Chemistry
- Penny M. Rowe
- NorthWest Research Associates
- Valentina Asencio
- Select Carbon Pty Ltd
- Jorge Carrasco
- University of Magallanes
- Juan A. Alfonso
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC), Apartado
- Pedro Llanillo
- Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)
- Paul Wachter
- German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)
- Gunther Seckmeyer
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Marina Stepanova
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Bernardo O’Higgins
- Juan M. Carrera
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Bernardo O’Higgins
- Jose Jorquera
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Av. Bernardo O’Higgins
- Chenghao Wang
- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
- Avni Malhotra
- University of Zurich
- Jacob Dana
- Western Washington University
- Alia L. Khan
- Western Washington University
- Gino Casassa
- University of Magallanes
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28560-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
The snow surrounding research facilities and shore tourist-landing sites in Antarctica was found to be darker than elsewhere in the continent, which suggests that local emissions of black carbon are accelerating seasonal snowmelt in impacted regions.
