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The Impact of Black Carbon on Arctic Climate - Atmospheric Chemistry

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8. Pyro-Cb:<br />

Injecti<strong>on</strong> into<br />

stratosphere<br />

6. Fast transport<br />

in free troposphere<br />

with multiple aerosol<br />

removal events<br />

4. Slow descent into polar dome<br />

5. Slow mixing into polar dome<br />

Tropopause<br />

9. Top <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Greenland<br />

does not receive<br />

low-level transport<br />

Polar Dome<br />

1. Lifting at <strong>Arctic</strong> fr<strong>on</strong>t,<br />

BC depositi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> snow<br />

<strong>Arctic</strong> sources<br />

pollute directly<br />

3. Low-level transport<br />

North America<br />

Greenland<br />

7. Agricultural fires<br />

can emit aerosols into<br />

free troposphere with<br />

little removal<br />

Eurasia<br />

2. Lifting at low<br />

latitudes<br />

removes most<br />

aerosols outside<br />

the <strong>Arctic</strong><br />

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