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ATMOPOL
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definition: Short Title: ATMOPOL Project URL: http://www.unis.no/staff_homepages/RolandK/ATMOPOL.htm Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=76 The project aims at establishing a long-term Arctic-Antarctic network of monitoring stations for atmospheric monitoring of anthropogenic pollution. Based upon the long and excellent experiences with different scientific groups performing air monitoring within the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), an expanded network will be established including all AMAP stations and all major Antarctic "year-around" research stations. As an integrated project within the "International Polar Year 2007-08" initiative, the ATMOPOL co-operation intend to: - Establish a long-term coordinated international Arctic-Antarctic contaminant programme. - Develop and implement a joint sampling and monitoring strategy as an official guideline for all participating stations. - Support bi-polar international atmospheric research with high-quality data on atmospheric long-range transport of contaminants (sources, pathways and fate). - Support future risk assessment of contaminants for Polar Regions based on effects of relevant contamination levels and polar organisms Based upon the well-established experiences of circum-Arctic atmospheric contaminant monitoring in the Arctic under the AMAP umbrella, a bi-polar atmospheric contaminant network will be established and maintained. In conjunction with the polar network of atmospheric monitoring stations for air pollution, surface-based and satellite instrumentation will be utilised to provide the characterization of the Arctic atmospheric-water-ice cycle. Together with numerical weather prediction and chemical transport model calculations, simultaneous measurements of pollutants at various locations in the Arctic and Antarctic will enhance our understanding of chemical transport and distribution as well as their long-term atmospheric trends. In addition to investigating t…