Greenfjord climate change project – NIRS Station

Greenlandic Fjord ecosystems during climate change: Socio-cultural and environmental interactions - Global warming is causing changes in emissions in the fjord systems of southern Greenland, such as marine emissions from algal blooms, terrestrial vegetation, glacial dust and long-range transport of biomass burning aerosols from remote areas e.g., Canada. At the same time human activities in the area cause emissions from traffic, domestic activities and in particular animal herding. The deployment of two high volume Digitel samplers for the sampling of PM10 and PM2.5 atmospheric particles will help us to define the chemical composition of the atmosphere. A number of chemical analyses will be performed in order to characterize the organic and inorganic fraction of aerosol. The high sampling flow rate allowed us to have a one-day sampling analysis collecting enough aerosol mass for different types of analyses.