Description
Surface snow samples were collected daily from a Canadian high Arctic location at Eureka, Nunavut (80N, 86W) from the end of February to the end of March in 2018 and 2019. The snow samples were collected at several sites representing distinct environments: sea ice, inland close to sea level, and a hilltop ~600 m above sea level. Ion Chromatography (IC) analysis was performed for most of the snow samples. Snow salinity measurement is mainly for surface snow. Surface ozone was measured at sea level (from the Zero Altitude PEARL Auxiliary Laboratory (0PAL)) and lower tropospheric BrO (0-4 km) was measured by MAX-DOAS instrument (at ~610 m located at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL)). This study was supported by the UK NERC Arctic office via two UK-Canada bursary programs: "The role of tundra snowpack chemistry in the boundary layer bromine budget at Eureka, Canada" (2018), and "A second investigation of the role of tundra snowpack chemistry in the boundary layer 'bromine explosion'" (2019). The Eureka MAX-DOAS BrO measurements made at the PEARL Ridge Laboratory by CANDAC was primarily supported by NSERC, CSA, and ECCC.
Data Citation
Yang, X., & Strong, K. (2024). Snow chemical compositions, salinity, surface ozone, BrO and meteorology data at Eureka, Canada in spring of 2018/19 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/5b75a1dc-6f24-43bc-b93a-c1dcf633f12a
| Date made available | 5 Apr 2024 |
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| Publisher | NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre |
| Date of data production | 25 Feb 2018 - 31 Mar 2019 |
| Geographical coverage | Onshore site, Eureka, Nunavut, Canada |
| Geospatial point | 80.00358, -86.11908Show on map |