Surface snow bromide and nitrate at Eureka, Canada in early spring and implications for polar boundary layer chemistry
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Abstract
This study explores the role of snowpack in polar boundary layer chemistry, especially as a direct source of reactive bromine (BrOX=BrO+Br) and nitrogen (NOX=NO+NO2) in the Arctic springtime. Surface snow samples were collected daily from a Canadian high Arctic location at Eureka, Nunavut (80°N, 86°W) from the end of February to the end of March in 2018 and 2019. The snow was sampled at several sites representing distinct environments: sea ice, inland close to sea level, and a hilltop ~600 m above sea level. At all sites, snow sodium and chloride concentrations increase by almost tenfold from the top 0.2 cm down to a depth of ~1.5 cm. Surface snow bromide at sea level is significantly enriched, indicating a net sink of atmospheric bromine. Moreover, surface snow bromide at sea level has an increasing trend over the measurement period, with mean slopes of 0.024 mM d-1 in the 0-0.2 cm layer and 0.016 mM d-1 in the 0.2-0.5 cm layer. Surface snow nitrate at sea level also shows a significant increasing trend, with mean slopes of 0.27, 0.20, and 0.07 mM d-1 in the top 0.2 cm, 0.2-0.5 cm, and 0.5-1.5 cm layers, respectively. Using these trends, an integrated net deposition flux of bromide of (1.01±0.48)×107 molecules cm-2 s-1 and an integrated net deposition flux of nitrate of (2.6±0.37)×108 molecules cm-2 s-1 were derived. In addition, the surface snow nitrate and bromide at inland sites were found to be significantly correlated (R=0.48-0.76) with the [NO3-]/[Br-] ratio of 4-7 indicating a possible acceleration effect of reactive bromine in atmospheric NOX-to-nitrate conversion. This is the first time such an effect has been seen in snow chemistry data obtained with a sampling frequency as short as one day.BrO partial column (0-4 km) data measured by MAX-DOAS show a decreasing trend in March 2019, which agrees with the derived surface snow bromide deposition flux. This indicates that bromine in the Eureka atmosphere and surface snow did not reach a photochemical equilibrium state and that the photochemical release flux of reactive bromine from snow must be a weak process and smaller than the derived bromide deposition flux of ~1×107 molecules cm-2 s-1.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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