Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3309-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3309-2019
Brief communication
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11 Dec 2019
Brief communication |  | 11 Dec 2019

Brief communication: An alternative method for estimating the scavenging efficiency of black carbon by meltwater over sea ice

Tingfeng Dou, Zhiheng Du, Shutong Li, Yulan Zhang, Qi Zhang, Mingju Hao, Chuanjin Li, Biao Tian, Minghu Ding, and Cunde Xiao

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The meltwater scavenging coefficient (MSC) determines the BC enrichment in the surface layer of melting snow and therefore modulates the BC-snow-albedo feedbacks. This study presents a new method for MSC estimation over the sea-ice area in Arctic. Using this new method, we analyze the spatial variability of MSC in the western Arctic and demonstrate that the value in Canada Basin (23.6 % ± 2.1 %) ≈ that in Greenland (23.0 % ± 12.5 %) > that in Chukchi Sea (17.9 % ± 5.0 %) > that in Elson Lagoon (14.5 % ± 2.6 %).