Capturing black carbon aerosol emissions in Alaska

(a) Map of the aerosol sampling stations in Alaska, (b) daily sum of fire radiative power from MODIS active fires in 2013 Alaska (Mouteva et al 2015).

Figure (a) Map of the CARVE aerosol sampling stations in Alaska, (b) daily sum of fire radiative power from MODIS active fires in 2013 Alaska (from Mouteva et al 2015).

This data set provides measurements of the isotopic composition of black carbon and organic carbon aerosols collected at two locations in interior Alaska during the summer of 2013, as part of NASA's Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE). The delta14C end member of fire aerosol was derived and linked to soil elemental and isotopic composition in Alaskan boreal forests. Soil and aerosol measurements were used to estimate average depth of burn in Alaska during the summer of 2013.

Data Acknowledgements
Authors: Mouteva, G.O., C.I. Czimczik, S.M. Fahrni, E.B. Wiggins, B.M. Rogers, S. Veraverbeke, X. Xu, G.M. Santos, J. Henderson, C.E. Miller, and J.T. Randerson.
Data Set DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1340
Data center: ORNL DAAC
Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS