ABSTRACT
The atmospheric transport of industrial pollutants and other mid-latitude substances to the Arctic closely parallels the transport of continental materials to the oceans. In 1978, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a workshop, which produced a report, “Tropospheric Transport of Pollutants and Other Substances to the Ocean.” This chapter reviews the progress that has been made since that report was issued, with respect to regional and local processes influencing atmospheric transport and exchange of particulate substances to selected places at the arctic surface. More general surveys of larger scale transport to the Arctic are collected in special volumes edited by Schnell [1] and Rahn [2]. In addition, we present results of an analysis of the diurnal variation of CO2, temperature, and dew point temperature for the summer of 1986 at Barrow, Alaska.
