Sea salt aerosol production and bromine release: Role of snow on sea ice

Details Sea salt aerosol production and bromine release: Role of snow on sea ice Sea salt aerosol production and bromine release: Role of snow on sea ice

Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3516815y&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 16, CiteID L16815

Physics

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Troposphere: Composition And Chemistry, Cryosphere: Snow (1827, 1863), Cryosphere: Sea Ice (4540), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Air/Sea Constituent Fluxes (3339, 4504)

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Snow lying on sea ice could be a potentially important source of sea salt aerosol, as small snow particles, rich in salts, can be easily lifted into the air though blowing-snow events. Using a measured distribution of snow salinity on Antarctic sea ice and a blowing snow sublimation parameterization, we derive a method for estimating sea salt aerosol production, and bromine release, during blowing-snow events. Compared with sea salt aerosol production rates from the open ocean, we find that the aerosol production rate from snow can be more than an order of magnitude larger per unit area under typical weather conditions. The large sea ice cover may thus enhance the supply of sea salt to the polar lower atmosphere. This is consistent with observations of sea salt aerosol seasonality and with the ice-core record. This large emission of sea salt from snow also implies an additional tropospheric bromine source in these regions.

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