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1 Carbon Monoxide and Ozone measurements in the Canadian High Arctic
using infrared emission spectroscopy Tran, Sophie1 , Z. Mariani2, E. Lutsch1, S. Conway1, M. Palm3, P. Rowe4, G. Manney5, L. Millan6 and K. Strong1 1 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 2 Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Section, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada 3 Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany 4 Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA 5 Department of Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NW, USA 6 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA Eureka, NU Image: Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Outline Context and motivation Instrument and measurement site Results for: Carbon Monoxide Ozone Conclusions Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Context and motivation Rapid climate change in the Arctic  importance to improve our knowledge about processes driving these changes, including the atmospheric composition. High Arctic  prolonged periods of total darkness in the winter and continuous daylight in the summer. Polar night To monitor and measure atmospheric composition, ground-based stations are equipped with Fourier Transform Spectrometers (FTS). However, most of them use the Sun as a light source… which leads to a measurement gap during polar night. FTIR measurements from 2007 to 2010 at Eureka (80°N), Nunavut, Canada. (Courtesy of Rodica Lindenmaier) Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Context and motivation During December 1992 and February 1993, Notholt at al. performed the first FTIR measurements to utilize the moon as the infrared source during the polar night at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen (78.9°N, 11.9°E) to obtain the column densities of several trace gases. Zenith column densities (mol cm-2): Measurements were taken for about a week around full moon. (Notholt et al., 1993) They could also monitor the seasonal cycles of certain trace gases  However, the measurements depend on the moon’s phases and more than half of the polar night can not be documented. (Notholt et al., 1997) Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Context and motivation In addition to documenting the atmospheric composition during the polar night, it’s also important to have good data coverage during the rest of the year. Example of trace gas total columns measured by the 125HR from 2010 to 2015: measurement gaps are due to polar night, weather, reduced on-site operations, instrument issues CO O3 CH4 N2O Need to have complementary measurements to assure the best data coverage through the year Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

6 Retrievals of trace gas column densities
Infrared emission spectroscopy E-AERI = Extended-range Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) with 1cm-1 resolution Measurements of accurately calibrated downwelling infrared thermal emission from the atmosphere Extended wavelength range covers cm-1 (3-25 µm) to investigate the IR surface cooling in the Arctic High sensitivity to tropospheric trace gases Measurements are independent of sunlight Retrievals of trace gas column densities Retrieval windows Using new SFIT4 retrieval algorithm (before: SFIT2 v393_MP Emission Add-on) Can currently retrieve CO, CH4, N2O, and O3 Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Measurement sites PEARL - Ridge Lab PEARL = Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory in Eureka, Nunavut (80.05°N, 86.42°W) 610 m 10 m PEARL - 0PAL Ridge Lab Instruments: E-AERI from Oct 2008 to Sept 2009 125HR Bruker from 2006 to 2015 altitude Instruments: P-AERI from 2006 to Feb 2009 E-AERI from 2011 to 2015 0PAL Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Timeseries of column densities for several trace gases Gaps in the dataset are due to cloudy days, no data recorded or no convergence in the retrieval Time series combining two datasets: P-AERI: 2006 to 2009 E-AERI: 2008 to 2015 Measurements of trace gas even during the polar night CO O3 CH4 N2O Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Carbon monoxide AERI 125HR Clear seasonal cycle of CO Identification of CO enhancements periods Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Carbon monoxide Biomass burning event in 2014 125HR data: courtesy from E. Lutsch (paper in preparation) 125HR 125HR 125HR CO AERI  Two main biomass burning events occurred in August 2014, also observed by the AERI instrument (Flexpart model) Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Ozone AERI 125HR Clear seasonal cycle of ozone Good correlation between AERI and 125HR Ozone depletion events in 2007 and 2011 are recorded on both datasets Ozone enhancement event in winter Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

12 Tropopause height Anti-correlation between the tropopause height and ozone total columns Combined with high ozone amount in the atmosphere on January (2012) Exceptional ozone enhancement event during the polar night at Eureka in 2012 Source ozone maps: Environment Canada Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Ozone depletion Ozone depletion events identified in 2007 and 2011 at Eureka (Rösevall et al., 2007 ; Kuttippurath et al., 2009; Manney et al., 2011; Lindenmaier et al., 2012) Ozone depletion event occurred from February 7 to February 22, 2016  During the polar night Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Conclusions Use of infrared emission spectroscopy to document the polar night atmospheric trace gas composition and is a great complement to the solar-viewing instruments Clear seasonal cycle of CO and ozone with maximum column densities in winter-early spring due to the absence of photochemical destruction Identification of carbon monoxide enhancements due to biomass burning plumes reaching PEARL in the summer Observation of stratospheric influence on ozone column densities in January 2012 in the Arctic even though the tropopause height seems to drive the ozone amount measured by the AERI Ozone depletion can be monitored using ground-based instrument during the winter Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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Acknowledgements CANDAC and PEARL are supported by: ARIF, AIF/NSRIT, CFCAS, CFI, CSA, EC, GOC-IPY, NSERC, OIT, ORF, INAC, and PCSP Logistical and operational support at Eureka: CANDAC operators Team at the EC Weather Station PEARL site manager Pierre Fogal CANDAC/PEARL PI James R. Drummond CANDAC data manager Yan Tsehtik Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaigns supported by: CSA, EC, NSERC, and NSTP PI Kaley Walker Special thanks to Pierre Fogal, Paul Loewen, Mike Maurice, Peter McGovern and Kaley Walker for assistance with ACE Validation Campaigns. Sophie Tran – CAP 2016, June 15th

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