Aerosols in Polar Atmospheres
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The climate and the atmospheric environment are irreversibly changing due to growing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in polar regions. The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land that is warming much faster than the rest of the planet. The Antarctic continent and its surrounded Southern Ocean are within the most near-pristine aerosol environments on our planet Earth. Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are an ensemble of regions with substantial spatial heterogeneity across marine, terrestrial, and freshwater biomes, with productivity and biodiversity patchiness super-imposed on strong environmental gradients.
Our ability to monitor polar aerosols and their role in cloud formation is limited by remoteness and sea-ice coverage, but an oversimplification of two broad natural sources governing the aerosol population in the polar regions - sea spray aerosol and non-sea salt sulfate - has been challenged in a recent intensification in aerosol measurement field campaigns. The local atmospheric composition of polar regions is remarkably different, investigating the geographical variation in surface types across these regions is the key to understanding local aerosols sources and processes.
This Collection aims to broaden our knowledge of the relevant physical, chemical, and biological components of polar atmospheric and climate science, with a particular focus on regional atmospheric aerosol composition. We invite Original Research and Review articles addressing primary and secondary aerosol response to warming and changes in the polar regions.
Editors
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Manuel Dall´Osto, PhD
Institute of Marine Science (ICM), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
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Eija Asmi, PhD
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
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Tuija Jokinen, PhD
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Manuel Dall´Osto, PhD, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Dr. Manuel Dall´Osto is a scientist at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His current research is focused on ocean-atmosphere interactions, in particular the multidisciplinary application of polar atmospheric science, marine biogeochemistry and microbial ecology techniques to examine the potential of changing environments on marine aerosol emissions (focusing in particular on polar regions) strongly regulating our changing climate.
Eija Asmi, PhD, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
Dr. Eija Asmi is a senior scientist and a head of group “Aerosols and Climate” at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). She has >20 years of research experience during which she has published about 100 peer-reviewed publications focusing on experimental aerosol research. Her current research interests are aerosols and their sources at polar regions, and climate impacts of those aerosols on snow- and ice-covered areas via clouds, surface albedo and snow- and ice-processes, aiming at improved process-level understanding on atmosphere-cryosphere interactions. She is particularly interested in the light-absorbing components of the aerosol and does research at both polar regions, and the glaciers.
Tuija Jokinen, PhD, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Dr. Tuija Jokinen is an assistant professor at the environmental observations department at the Cyprus Institute since 2021. She completed her studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland including a Ph.D. in physics and M.Sc. in analytical chemistry. She has a long history in working with chemical ionization - atmospheric pressure interface - time of flight mass spectrometers (CI-APi-TOF) and she specializes in field observations of aerosol precursor gases and sub 10 nm particle measurements. She has led, participated and published several expeditions from the Arctic to the Antarctica, focused on the formation of nanoparticles and how aerosols and climate change may affect the polar regions. Her most current work handles with the observations of gas phase halogens, mercury and aerosol precursors from The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) campaign in the Central Arctic.
