NETCARE 2015 POLAR6 aircraft campaign

This campaign took place in April 2015, with a focus on the characterization of ice clouds and pollutant levels, including black carbon, across the Arctic. The campaign was again a collaboration between NETCARE scientists and The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Along with the POLAR 6, the POLAR 5 made the trans-Arctic passage with an intent to characterize sea ice levels. The campaign started in Longyearben, Spitzbergen and was to have continued in Station Nord, Greenland, but bad weather at the start required researchers to skip science activities in Station Nord and to carry on to Alert and Eureka, Nunavut and then to Inuvik, NWT.

           The instrumentation was similar to what was deployed in the summer of 2014, but with specific changes to better characterize the optical properties of the particles and the character of the ice clouds.   Close to 10 science flights were performed, with some measurements also performed on the ferry flights between stations.



           Institutions Involved:



           ● Environment and Climate Change Canada

           ● University of Toronto

           ● University of British Columbia

           ● University of Calgary

           ● Alfred Wegener Institute

           ● University of Mainz

           ● Max Planck Institute

           ● University of Quebec at Montreal



           Data sets:



           ● Atmospheric gas phase species

           ● Atmospheric aerosol particle size and number density

           ● Atmospheric aerosol particle composition

           ● Numbers of ice cloud forming particles

           ● Aircraft data and meteorology