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High Latitude Dust Transport Altitude Pattern Revealed from Deposition on Snow, Svalbard

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Authors

KAVAN Jan LÁSKA Kamil NAWROT Adam WAWRZYNIAK Tomasz

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Atmosphere
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121318
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121318
Keywords High Latitude Dust; snow; altitude; Svalbard; Arctic
Description High Latitude Dust (HLD) deposition in the surface snow layer in two distant locations in Svalbard (Hornsund and Pyramiden) were collected during the June/July 2019 field campaign and examined in the laboratory. Despite the differences in their climate and topography, both locations are characterised by very similar spatial patterns of the deposition. On the one hand, strong linear negative relationship between the altitude of the sample taken and its concentration was found in low altitude (below 300 m a.s.l.), suggesting a strong influence of local HLD sources. On the other hand, almost constant concentrations were found at higher elevated sampling sites (above 300 m a.s.l.). This suggests a predominantly long-range transport in high altitude areas. The importance of local sources in the lower altitude corresponds well with the generally higher concentrations of HLD in the Pyramiden area. This region has a drier, continental climate and more deglaciated bare land surfaces, which favour more sediment to be uplifted in comparison with the more maritime climate of Hornsund area in the southern part of Svalbard. The spatial division between the local and long-range transport is supported by the proportion of certain lithophile elements in the altitude gradient.
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