Short-term Climate Characteristics at Ny-lesund over the Arctic Tundra Area

Based on the Germany Koldwey Station's 1994-2003 conventional ob-servation hourly data,this paper conducts a statistical analysis on the short-termclimate characteristics for an arctic tundra region(Ny-lesund island)where ourfirst arctic expedition station(Huanghe Station)was located.Affected by theNorth Atlantic warming current,this area has a humid temperate climate,andthe air temperature at Ny-lesund rose above 0℃ even during deep winter sea-son during our research period.The wind speed in this area was low and appearedmost at southeast direction.We find that the temperature at Ny-lesund rose inthe faster rate(0.68℃/10 a)than those at the whole Arctic area.Comparedwith the floating ices where our expedition conducted in the Arctic,Ny-lesundwas warmer and more humid and had lower wind speed.Comparison of the nearsurface air temperature derived by NCEP/NCAR reanalysis to the conventionalmeasurements conducted at the Koldwey site in Ny-lesund area shows a good a-greement for winter season and a significant difference for summer season.     

Characteristics of carbonaceous aerosol in a two-week campaign at Ny-lesund

The concentrations of organic carbon(OC)and elemental carbon(EC)in total suspended particle(TSP)were investigated at Ny-Alesund,Svalbard in atwo-week campaign.The levels of OC and EC are 0.86±0.27μgm~(-3)(mean±standard deviation)and 0.19±0.10μgm~(-3),respectively.Back trajectory analy-sis of air masses arriving at Ny-lesund reveals that long-range transport of pol-luted air play insignificant role in OC and EC levels,to which the potential influ-ence of the local contamination were ascribed.The average OC/EC ratio is 5.41,suggesting the presence of the secondary organic aerosols.The estimated second-ary organic carbon(SOC)in TSP is 0.59μg/m~3,accounting for 64% of the totalorganic carbon.