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Description

The Arctic is warming faster than any other place on Earth, with sea ice declining rapidly and sources of sea spray and biogenic aerosol emissions changing by consequence. Utqiagvik is at the forefront of this change, abutting one of the largest areas of sea ice loss. This change will have far-reaching impacts to both the environment and the community. Because this change has happened largely in the last decade, now is an important time to both document that change and to continue a data record that will allow for a characterization of the New Arctic, as climate is already altering the Arctic landscape forever. The longest and most complete record of aerosol properties in the American Arctic is that of Utqiagvik, making this unique location serve as a regional record of changes in atmospheric aerosol properties. This dataset includes aerosol particle number size distribution measurements (Freud et al., 2017) collected intermittently between 2007-2021.

Date Collected

• 2007 to 2021

Date Issued

• 2026

Authors

• Andrews, Elizabeth
• Bates, Tim
• Leaitch, W. Richard
• Quinn, Patricia K.
• Saha, Sourita
• Upchurch, Lucia

Principal Investigator

• Russell, Lynn M.

Co Principal Investigator

• Thiemens, Mark H.

Contributors

• Burgener, Ross
• Thomas, Bryan

Funding

National Science Foundation Project Number 2127737

Geographics

• Arctic
• Utqiaġvik (Alaska)

Topics

• Atmospheric sciences
• Domain: Earth sciences
• Domain: Environmental sciences
• Particle number size distribution (PNSD)

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• image
• text

Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Lucia Upchurch: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1351-6332

Identifier: Lynn M. Russell: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6108-2375

Identifier: Mark Thiemens: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1822-6070

Identifier: Patricia Quinn: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0337-4895

Identifier: Richard Leaitch: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1503-5639

Identifier: Sourita Saha: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4229-6893

Identifier: Tim Bates: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1894-8791

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Software

• Wiedensohler, A., Birmili, W., Nowak, A., Sonntag, A., Weinhold, K., Merkel, M., Wehner, B., Tuch, T., Pfeifer, S., Fiebig, M., Fjäraa, A. M., Asmi, E., Sellegri, K., Depuy, R., Venzac, H., Villani, P., Laj, P., Aalto, P., Ogren, J. A., Swietlicki, E., Williams, P., Roldin, P., Quincey, P., Hüglin, C., Fierz-Schmidhauser, R., Gysel, M., Weingartner, E., Riccobono, F., Santos, S., Grüning, C., Faloon, K., Beddows, D., Harrison, R., Monahan, C., Jennings, S. G., O'Dowd, C. D., Marinoni, A., Horn, H.-G., Keck, L., Jiang, J., Scheckman, J., McMurry, P. H., Deng, Z., Zhao, C. S., Moerman, M., Henzing, B., de Leeuw, G., Löschau, G., and Bastian, S. (2012): Mobility particle size spectrometers: harmonization of technical standards and data structure to facilitate high quality long-term observations of atmospheric particle number size distributions, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 657–685. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-657-2012

Related data

• Russell, Lynn M.; Saha, Sourita; Thomas, Bryan; Burgener, Ross; Andrews, Elizabeth; Thiemens, Mark H.; Quinn, Patricia; Upchurch, Lucia; Leaitch, W. Richard (2024). Aerosol Measurements at Utqiagvik, Alaska, from 2022 to 2027 for Sustaining The Utqiagvik Aerosol Record of Decades (STUARD). UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0W66KZF

Collection image

• Image credit: Ross Burgener. "Station from the sampling tower."