Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high latitude dust sources

O Meinander… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Dust particles from high latitudes have a potentially large local, regional, and global
significance to climate and the environment as short-lived climate forcers, air pollutants, and …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution OSL dating of loess in Adventdalen, Svalbard: Late Holocene dust activity and permafrost development

CF Rasmussen, HH Christiansen, JP Buylaert… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
There is considerable uncertainty over the nature and causes of Holocene dust activity in the
Arctic, and its links to climatic changes. Loess deposits act as near-source archives of dust …

High ice-nucleating particle concentrations associated with Arctic haze in springtime cold-air outbreaks

EN Raif, SL Barr, MD Tarn, JB McQuaid… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
The global variation in ice-nucleating particle (INP) concentrations is an important modulator
of the cloud-phase feedback, where the albedo of mixed-phase clouds increases in a …

Annual and seasonal variability in high latitude dust deposition, West Greenland

MAJ van Soest, JE Bullard, C Prater… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High latitude regions (≥ 50° N and≥ 40° S) are thought to contribute substantially to
contemporary global dust emissions which can influence biogeochemical cycling as well as …

Impacts of anthropogenic activities and glacial processes on the distribution of chemical elements in Billefjord, Svalbard, Arctic

J Souza-Kasprzyk, L Kozak, P Niedzielski - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Arctic region is undergoing rapid and extensive transformations due to global climate
change. This study investigated the spatial distribution of 31 chemical elements in eight …

Sedimentary environment of basal Ediacaran barite growth on Baltica in E. Finnmark, N. Norway, and subsequent dissolution/reprecipitation

AHN Rice, S Viehmann, Y Peng, H Bao - Precambrian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Basal Ediacaran barite, which has mass-anomalous depleted 17 O, supporting Snowball
Earth models, likely grew in shallow-marine settings, but sedimentological constraints lack …

Quantification of the effect of loess admixture on soil hydrological properties in sandy slope deposits

F Yang, DG Rossiter, Y He, V Karius, GL Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The admixture of loess in soils formed in sandy parent materials has considerable impact on
pedogenesis and soil ecological functions. This study aimed to evaluate these effects on soil …

Diurnal and seasonal source‐proximal dust concentrations in complex terrain, West Greenland

JE Bullard, C Prater, MC Baddock… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diurnal and seasonal cycles of aeolian activity are well‐constrained for low latitude dust
source regions and provide valuable insights into relationships between dust emissions and …

[PDF][PDF] Dust in Svalbard: local sources versus long-range transported dust (SVALDUST)

B Di Mauro, D Cappelletti, B Moroni, M Mazzola… - SESS report, 2022 - academia.edu
Dust particles are commonly defined according to their size, including clay-sized (< 4 μm),
siltsized (4–62.5 μm) or sand-sized (62.5 μm–2 mm) material (UNCCD 2022). Giant dust …

[PDF][PDF] Sources of the aeolian material in periglacial conditions based on quartz grain analysis, Ebba Valley, Svalbard

KG Rymer, L Wachecka-Kotkowska - Quaestiones Geographicae, 2024 - sciendo.com
The research conducted in this study is an attempt to quantitatively and qualitatively
supplement the still insufficient knowledge on aeolian processes under polar conditions …