Assessing the impact of shipping emissions on air pollution in the Canadian Arctic and northern regions: current and future modelled scenarios

Gong, Wanmin; Beagley, Stephen R.; Cousineau, Sophie; Sassi, Mourad; Munoz-Alpizar, Rodrigo; Ménard, Sylvain; Racine, Jacinthe; Zhang, Junhua; Chen, Jack; Morrison, Heather; Sharma, Sangeeta; Huang, Lin; Bellavance, Pascal; Ly, Jim; Izdebski, Paul; Lyons, Lynn; Holt, Richard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16653-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16653-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16653-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 22

Research article

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26 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 26 Nov 2018

Assessing the impact of shipping emissions on air pollution in the Canadian Arctic and northern regions: current and future modelled scenarios

Wanmin Gong, Stephen R. Beagley, Sophie Cousineau, Mourad Sassi, Rodrigo Munoz-Alpizar, Sylvain Ménard, Jacinthe Racine, Junhua Zhang, Jack Chen, Heather Morrison, Sangeeta Sharma, Lin Huang, Pascal Bellavance, Jim Ly, Paul Izdebski, Lynn Lyons, and Richard Holt

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16653-2018-supplement

Data sets

National Air Pollution Surveillance network data ECCC https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1b36a356-defd-4813-acea-47bc3abd859b

World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases data WMO http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/wdcgg/cgi-bin/wdcgg/catalogue.cgi?&order=country

Model code and software

GEM-MACH-Arctic rev1484+ (Version v1.0.0), Zenodo S. R. Beagley, W. Gong, and GEM-MACH Development Team https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1487978

gemdyn and rpnphy repositories Canadian Meteorological Centre https://github.com/mfvalin?tab=repositories

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The navigability of the Arctic Ocean is increasing with the warming in recent years. Using model simulations at a much finer resolution than previous pan-Arctic studies, the impact of marine shipping emissions on air pollution in the Canadian Arctic is assessed for present (2010) and projected levels in 2030. The study found that shipping emissions have a local-to-regional impact in the Arctic at the current level; the impact will increase significantly in a projected business-as-usual scenario.