Aerospace monitoring of smoke aerosol over the European part of Russia in the period of massive forest and peatbog fires in July–August of 2010

Interannual and seasonal variations in the aerosol optical depth of the atmosphere in two regions of Spitsbergen (2002–2018)

“…Studies by various authors have shown that the Arctic atmosphere is appreciably affected by outflows of different types of aerosols (e.g., smoke, industrial, sulfate and organic) from Eurasia and North America. The most powerful effect is due to smoke from forest fires that cover large areas of the boreal zone (e.g., Chubarova et al, 2012;Sitnov et al, 2013;Zhuravleva et al, 2017). The long-range transport of smoke plumes leads to considerable pollution of the Arctic atmosphere (Stohl et al, 2006;Stone et al, 2008;Eck et al, D. M. Kabanov et al: Interannual and seasonal variations in the aerosol optical depth over Spitsbergen 2009; Vinogradova et al, 2015).…”

“…The most powerful effect is due to smoke from forest fires that cover large areas of the boreal zone (e.g., Chubarova et al, 2012;Sitnov et al, 2013;Zhuravleva et al, 2017). The long-range transport of smoke plumes leads to considerable pollution of the Arctic atmosphere (Stohl et al, 2006;Stone et al, 2008;Eck et al, D. M. Kabanov et al: Interannual and seasonal variations in the aerosol optical depth over Spitsbergen 2009; Vinogradova et al, 2015). These episodes are short in duration (1-3 d) and rare because they depend on the product of the probabilities of two independent events: (a) a fire in any area of boreal zone and (b) the fact that the trajectory of air transport from a fire's center arrives at a given region of the Arctic.…”

Russian National Report: Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

“…Ground-based monitoring air pollution data in Moscow region were also examined [Gorchakov et al, 2014b]. Some aspects of European Russia smoke screening are discussed [Sitnov et al, 2012a[Sitnov et al, , 2012b. Preliminary results of Moscow region air pollution studies are outlined .…”

“…Variations of the characteristics of atmospheric aerosol due to forest fires have been investigated and discussed in [163][164][165][166][167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180]. In the central regions of Yakutia, during the peak phase of fire activity, the АОТ values were measured to have increased manifold compared with the peak background values, and burning products were found at a distance of up to 3 thousand kilometers from the fire source, according to [64,65].…”

Impact of a Strong Biomass Burning Event on the Radiative Forcing in the Arctic

“…Since in our case the average τ 550 is 0.64 the results seem to be complementary. On the other hand, a study from Sitnov et al (2013) . As RF surf is a function of both solar zenith angle (Stone et al, 2008) and surface albedo (Carslaw et al, 2010) that might explain the reported differences.…”