ARCTAS

Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites

Home Pages: https://www.espo.nasa.gov/arctas/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/arctas/

Platform/Location/Time:
DC8 - Cold Lake, Canada, 6/18-7/13
DC8 - Fairbanks, AK, 4/1-4/19

Overall Goal:
ARCTAS has four major scientific themes:

1. Long range transport of pollution to the Arctic including arctic haze, tropospheric ozone, and persistent pollutants such as mercury;
2. Boreal forest fires and their implications for atmospheric composition and climate;
3. Aerosol radiative forcing from arctic haze, boreal fires, surface deposited black carbon, and other perturbations;
4. Chemical processes with focus on ozone, aerosols, mercury, and halogens.

What we studied:
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1. Optical properties of Arctic pollution, including biomass burning smoke:
   
2. Aging of Arctic biomass burning smoke:
   
3. Cloud/Aerosol interactions:
   
4. Microphysical and optical properties of urban aerosol in the Los Angeles Airport (LAX) area:
   

+ Access the LARGE Publications list associated with ARCTAS

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