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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2019 year, number 6

Black carbon in surface air in the Pechora-Ilych nature reserve: measurements and sources

A.A. Vinogradova1, V.M. Kopeikin1, N.S. Smirnov2, A.V. Vasileva1, Yu.A. Ivanova1
1A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2Pechoro-Ilychskiy Gosudarstvennyy Prirodnyy Zapovednik, Komi Republic, Troitsko-Pechorskij r-n, pos. Yaksha, Russia
Keywords: атмосфера, приземный слой, загрязнение, черный углерод, непрерывный мониторинг, Печоро-Илычский заповедник, антропогенные источники, Black carbon, in surface air, Pechora-Ilych nature reserve, measurements and sources

Abstract

The new data on the surface atmospheric black carbon (BC) concentration derived from continuous daily sampling during October 2017 - March 2018, that is, cold half year without wildfires as BC sources, in the remote area of Pechora-Ilych Nature Biosphere Reserve are analyzed. Average BC concentrations (with standard deviations) are equal to (296 ± 172) and (175 ± 82) ng/m3 for settlement Yaksha and in its neighborhood, respectively. Monthly average BC concentrations measured are compared with related monthly average satellite data (https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/). A good agreement between them may be regarded as their inter-calibration and confirms the reliability of both result types. The analysis of air mass trajectories at the observation point shows the main anthropogenic BC sources to be situated at a distances of less than 500 km in industrial areas of the Central Urals, gas and oil production areas of Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, towns and settlements of Perm region, Udmurtia, and Komi Republic.