Air quality monitoring in communities of the Canadian Arctic during the high shipping season with a focus on local and marine  pollution

Aliabadi, A. A.; Staebler, R. M.; Sharma, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2651-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2651-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2651-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

Research article

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09 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 09 Mar 2015

Air quality monitoring in communities of the Canadian Arctic during the high shipping season with a focus on local and marine pollution

A. A. Aliabadi, R. M. Staebler, and S. Sharma

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RC C10293: 'Referee comment on the manuscript of Aliabadi et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Dec 2014
RC C10998: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Jan 2015
AC C11593: 'Author responses: reviewer comments, response to reviewer comments, and highlighted changes in the manuscript', Amir Abbas Aliabadi, 26 Jan 2015

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Short summary

In an effort to characterize the effect of shipping on Arctic air quality during the 2013 shipping season, air-quality monitoring stations were installed in Cape Dorset and Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, to measure NOx, SO2, PM2.5, O3, and BC. Results indicate that on the order of 5--25% of local cumulative exposure to these pollutants is due to ship emissions. This approach is complementary to pollution measurements at the source and has wider applications for the impact of traffic on air quality.