Knowledge Domain: Atmospheric Science

Editor-in-Chief

Detlev Helmig, Principal, Boulder Air Consulting, CO, USA

Elementa's Atmospheric Science Domain is dedicated to research on the impacts of human activities and the natural state of the Earth’s atmosphere. Elementa invites original research manuscripts that investigate chemical and physical atmospheric properties encompassing natural processes, perturbations, and assessment of future conditions.

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Ice nucleating particle sources and transports between the Central and Southern Arctic regions during winter cold air outbreaks

Paul J. DeMott; Benjamin E. Swanson; Jessie M. Creamean; Yutaka Tobo; Thomas C. J. Hill; Kevin R. Barry; Ivo F. Beck; Gabriel P. Frietas; Dominic Heslin-Rees; Christian P. Lackner; Julia Schmale; Radovan Krejci; Paul Zieger; Bart Geerts; Sonia M. Kreidenweis

Characteristics and effects of aerosols during blowing snow events in the central Arctic

Nora Bergner; Benjamin Heutte; Ivo Beck; Jakob B. Pernov; Hélène Angot; Stephen R. Arnold; Matthew Boyer; Jessie M. Creamean; Ronny Engelmann; Markus M. Frey; Xianda Gong; Silvia Henning; Tamora James; Tuija Jokinen; Gina Jozef; Markku Kulmala; Tiia Laurila; Michael Lonardi; Amy R. Macfarlane; Sergey Y. Matrosov; Jessica A. Mirrielees; Tuukka Petäjä; Kerri A. Pratt; Lauriane L. J. Quéléver; Martin Schneebeli; Janek Uin; Jian Wang; Julia Schmale

Direct observation of Arctic Sea salt aerosol production from blowing snow and modeling over a changing sea ice environment

Ananth Ranjithkumar; Eliza Duncan; Xin Yang; Daniel G. Partridge; Thomas Lachlan-Cope; Xianda Gong; Kouichi Nishimura; Markus M. Frey

Methane and volatile organic compounds and their influence on air quality in Boulder, Colorado

Detlev Helmig; Gabriel Greenberg; Jacques Hueber; Brendan Blanchard; Jashan Chopra; Susan Simoncic; Hélène Angot; Lisa S. Darby; John Ortega; Dani Caputi

Driving factors of CO 2 emissions in southeast China: Comparative study of long-term trends, short-term fluctuations, and spatial variations

Yimin Huang; Weisheng Lin; Yuan Wang; Huafang Luo; Lin Zhu; Yanmin He; Feng Wang; Wen-ting Lai; Rui Shi

Methane emission rate estimates of offshore oil platforms in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Afshan Khaleghi; Katlyn MacKay; Andrea Darlington; Lesley A. James; David Risk

Surface ocean-lower atmospheric processes in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and future directions

Ashwini Kumar; Susann Tegtmeier; Sheryl Oliveira Fernandes; Haimanti Biswas; Imran Girach; M. K. Roxy; Siby Kurian; Christa A. Marandino; V. V. S. S. Sarma; Damodar M. Shenoy

Single-blind detection, localization, and quantification of methane emissions using continuous path-integrated column measurements

Nathan Blume; Timothy G. Pernini; Jeremy T. Dobler; T. Scott Zaccheo; Doug McGregor; Clay Bell

Influence of open ocean biogeochemistry on aerosol and clouds: Recent findings and perspectives

Karine Sellegri; Rafel Simó; Bingbing Wang; Peter A. Alpert; Katye Altieri; Susannah Burrows; Frances E. Hopkins; Ilan Koren; Isabel L. McCoy; Jurgita Ovadnevaite; Matthew Salter; Julia Schmale

Evaluation of the Coupled Arctic Forecast System’s representation of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer vertical structure during MOSAiC

Gina Jozef; John J. Cassano; Amy Solomon; Janet Intrieri; Gijs de Boer

Characteristics and sources of fluorescent aerosols in the central Arctic Ocean

Ivo Beck; Alireza Moallemi; Benjamin Heutte; Jakob Boyd Pernov; Nora Bergner; Margarida Rolo; Lauriane L. J. Quéléver; Tiia Laurila; Matthew Boyer; Tuija Jokinen; Hélène Angot; Clara J. M. Hoppe; Oliver Müller; Jessie Creamean; Markus M. Frey; Gabriel Freitas; Julika Zinke; Matt Salter; Paul Zieger; Jessica A. Mirrielees; Hailey E. Kempf; Andrew P. Ault; Kerri A. Pratt; Martin Gysel-Beer; Silvia Henning; Christian Tatzelt; Julia Schmale

A model-based study of the dynamics of Arctic low-level jet events for the MOSAiC drift

Günther Heinemann; Lukas Schefczyk; Rolf Zentek

Tethered balloon measurements reveal enhanced aerosol occurrence aloft interacting with Arctic low-level clouds

Christian Pilz; John J. Cassano; Gijs de Boer; Benjamin Kirbus; Michael Lonardi; Mira Pöhlker; Matthew D. Shupe; Holger Siebert; Manfred Wendisch; Birgit Wehner

European air quality in view of the WHO 2021 guideline levels: Effect of emission reductions on air pollution exposure

Philipp Franke; Anne Caroline Lange; Brendan Steffens; Andrea Pozzer; Andreas Wahner; Astrid Kiendler-Scharr

CO 2 fluxes of vegetation in the Greenbelt of Ontario and increased net ecosystem emissions associated with its removal

Sabrina Madsen; Dien Wu; Md Abdul Halim; Debra Wunch

Detection, localization, and quantification of single-source methane emissions on oil and gas production sites using point-in-space continuous monitoring systems

William S. Daniels; Meng Jia; Dorit M. Hammerling

Snow thermal conductivity and conductive flux in the Central Arctic: Estimates from observations and implications for models

Anne Sledd; Matthew D. Shupe; Amy Solomon; Christopher J. Cox; Donald Perovich; Ruibo Lei

Lifetimes and timescales of tropospheric ozone

Michael J. Prather; Xin Zhu

Science, international law, and policy across the air–sea interface

Erik van Doorn; Christa A. Marandino; Andrew J. Peters; Melita Keywood