Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) – concept and initial results
Open Access
- 22 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Copernicus GmbH in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Vol. 20 (14), 8551-8592
- https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8551-2020
Abstract
The role of polar regions is increasing in terms of megatrends such as globalization, new transport routes, demography, and the use of natural resources with consequent effects on regional and transported pollutant concentrations. We set up the ERA-PLANET Strand 4 project “iCUPE – integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments” to provide novel insights and observational data on global grand challenges with an Arctic focus. We utilize an integrated approach combining in situ observations, satellite remote sensing Earth observations (EOs), and multi-scale modeling to synthesize data from comprehensive long-term measurements, intensive campaigns, and satellites to deliver data products, metrics, and indicators to stakeholders concerning the environmental status, availability, and extraction of natural resources in the polar areas. The iCUPE work consists of thematic state-of-the-art research and the provision of novel data in atmospheric pollution, local sources and transboundary transport, the characterization of arctic surfaces and their changes, an assessment of the concentrations and impacts of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants and their cycling, the quantification of emissions from natural resource extraction, and the validation and optimization of satellite Earth observation (EO) data streams. In this paper we introduce the iCUPE project and summarize initial results arising out of the integration of comprehensive in situ observations, satellite remote sensing, and multi-scale modeling in the Arctic context.Keywords
Funding Information
- H2020 Research Infrastructures
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- Academy of Finland (NANOBIOMASS (decision number 307537), SA-MOSAiC (decision number 333397), "Community Resilience to Boreal Environmental change: Assessing Risks from fire and disease" (decision number 334792))
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Ingvar Kamprad Chair)
This publication has 173 references indexed in Scilit:
- Recommendations for reporting "black carbon" measurementsAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013
- Ground-Based Hyperspectral Characterization of Alaska Tundra Vegetation along Environmental GradientsRemote Sensing, 2013
- Emissions, Fate and Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Arctic in a Changing Global ClimateEnvironmental Science & Technology, 2013
- A statistical proxy for sulphuric acid concentrationAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011
- Arctic organic aerosol measurements show particles from mixed combustion in spring haze and from frost flowers in winterGeophysical Research Letters, 2010
- An important contribution to springtime Arctic aerosol from biomass burning in RussiaGeophysical Research Letters, 2010
- Aerosol black carbon in the European Arctic: Measurements at Zeppelin station, Ny‐Ålesund, Svalbard from 1998–2007Geophysical Research Letters, 2009
- Coal burning leaves toxic heavy metal legacy in the ArcticProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008
- Arctic air pollution: An overview of current knowledgeAtmospheric Environment (1967), 1986
- Optical properties of snowReviews of Geophysics, 1982