Sea ice as a source of sea salt aerosol to Greenland ice cores: a model-based study

Rhodes, Rachael H.; Yang, Xin; Wolff, Eric W.; McConnell, Joseph R.; Frey, Markus M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9417-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 15

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9417-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9417-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 15

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07 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 07 Aug 2017

Sea ice as a source of sea salt aerosol to Greenland ice cores: a model-based study

Rachael H. Rhodes, Xin Yang, Eric W. Wolff, Joseph R. McConnell, and Markus M. Frey

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9417-2017-supplement

Data sets

Core Atmospheric Measurements at Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory, Arctic Data Center R. Bales https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/urn:uuid:e9136a64-661f-470d-9b3a-72f31d54d066

Salinity profiles of snow on sea ice in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica) during austral winter 2013, NERC – Polar Data Centre M. M. Frey https://doi.org/10.5285/c0261633-fd14-4d45-a58d-72998816c4cd

EBAS database Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) http://ebas.nilu.no/

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Sea salt aerosol comes from the open ocean or the sea ice surface. In the polar regions, this opens up the possibility of reconstructing sea ice history using sea salt recorded in ice cores. We use a chemical transport model to demonstrate that the sea ice source of aerosol is important in the Arctic. For the first time, we simulate realistic Greenland ice core sea salt in a process-based model. The importance of the sea ice source increases from south to north across the Greenland ice sheet.