Scientific publications reporting results of atmospheric research and monitoring carried out on Sable Island (arranged chronologically by topic).

Ozone

Export of North American ozone pollution to the North Atlantic Ocean. 1993. D.D. Parrish, J.S. Holloway, M. Trainer, P.C. Murphy, G.L. Forbes & F.C. Fehsenfeld. Science 259: 1436-1439.

Carbon Monoxide and Light Alkanes as Tropospheric Tracers of Anthropogenic Ozone. 1993. D.D. Parrish. In The Tropospheric Chemistry of Ozone in the Polar Regions, H. Niki & K.H. Becker, ed., Springer-Verlag Publishing Co., 155.

The local photochemical environment and ozone production and loss at Sable Island, N.S. derived from measurements made during the North Atlantic Regional Experiment 1993 Summer Intensive. 1994. M.A. Carroll, T. Wang, G.M. Alber, K.A. Duderstadt, M.S. Sillman, A. Markevitch, K.R. Owens, F. Marsik, D.D. Parrish, J. Holloway, F.C. Fehsenfeld, J.A. Ogren, G. Forbes, N. Blake, D.R. Blake, J.T. Merrill & J.L. Moody. Presented to the American Geophysical Union.

Relationship of ozone and carbon monoxide over North America. 1994. Chin, M., D.J. Jacob, J.W. Munger, D.D. Parrish & B.G. Doddridge. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 14,565.

The role of anthropogenic emissions of NOx on tropospheric ozone over the North Atlantic Ocean: A three-dimensional, global model study. 1996. C.S. Atherton, S. Grotch, D.D. Parrish, J.E. Penner & J.J. Walton. Atmospheric Environment 30: 1739-1749.

Transport and processing of O3 and O3 precursors over the North Atlantic: An overview of the 1993 North Atlantic Regional Experiment (NARE) summer intensive. 1996. F.C. Fehsenfeld, P. Daum, W.R. Leaitch, M. Trainer, D.D. Parrish & G. Hubler. Journal of Geophysical Research 101: 28,877.

Meteorological mechanisms for transporting ozone over the western North Atlantic Ocean: a case study for August 24-29, 1993. 1996. J.L. Moody, J.C. Davenport, J.T. Merrill, S.J. Oltmans, D.D. Parrish, J.S. Holloway, H. Levy II, G.L. Forbes, M.Trainer & M. Buhr. Journal of Geophysical Research 101: 29,213- 29,277.

The influence of springtime weather systems on vertical ozone distributions over three North American sites. 1998. O.R. Cooper, J.L. Moody, J.C. Davenport, S.J. Oltmans, B.J. Johnson, X. Chen, P.B. Shepson & J.T. Merrill. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 22,001-22,013.

Photochemical production and loss rates of ozone at Sable Island, Nova Scotia during the North Atlantic Regional Experiment (NARE) 1993 summer intensive. 1998. K.A. Duderstadt, M.A.Carroll, S. Sillman, T. Wang, G. Albercook, L. Geng, D.D. Parrish, J.S. Holloway, F.C. Fehsenfeld, D R. Blake, N J. Blake & G. Forbes. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 13,531-13,555.

Relationships between ozone and carbon monoxide at surface sites in the North Atlantic Region. 1998. D.D. Parrish, M. Trainer, J.S. Holloway, J.E. Yee, M.S. Warshawsky, F.C. Fehsenfeld, G.L. Forbes & J.L. Moody. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 13,357-13,376.

Sources of ozone over the North Atlantic and transatlantic transport of pollution: a global model perspective. 2001. Q. Li, D.J. Jacob, I. Bey, R.M. Yantosca, B.D. Field, H. Liu, J.A. Logan, A.M. Fiore, R.V. Martin & B.N. Duncan. IGACtivities Newsletter 24.

Transatlantic transport of pollution and its effects on surface ozone in Europe and North America. 2002. Q. Li, D.J. Jacob, I. Bey, P.I. Palmer, B.N. Duncan, B.D. Field, R.V. Martin, A.M. Fiore, R.M. Yantosca, D.D. Parrish, P.G. Simmonds & S.J. Oltmans. Journal of Geophysical Research 107 (D13) 4166, doi: 10.1029/2001JD001422.

 

Aerosol

Aerosol optical depth over Canada and the link with synoptic air mass types. A. Smirnov, N.T. O'Neill, A. Royer, A. Tarussov & B. McArthur. Journal of Geophysical Research 101(D14): 19,299-19,318

Satellite measurements of tropospheric aerosols. 1983. M. Griggs. Proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission A of the COSPAR Twenty-fourth Plenary Meeting, Ottawa, May 1982.

Control of the wavelength dependence of aerosol light scattering by the ratio of coarse to fine particles. 1994. J.A. Ogren, B.A. Bodhaine & G.L. Forbes. Proc. Fourth Int. Aerosol Conf., Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 1994, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Contribution of carbonaceous aerosol to light scattering and hygroscopic growth in polluted continental air measured at Sable Island, Nova Scotia. 1997. M.H. Bergin, L.M. McInnes, J.A. Ogren & S.E. Schwartz. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1997 (abstract and poster presentation by M.H. Bergin).

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Aerosol Single-Scattering Albedo. 1997. P.J. Sheridan, M.H. Bergin & J.A. Ogren. Presented at the 1997 Fall AGU meeting, Dec. 8-12, 1997, San Francisco.

Aerosol Radiative Properties Downwind of North America: Dependence on Airmass Trajectory. 1997. J.A. Ogren, J.M. Harris & G.L. Forbes. Presented at the 1997 Fall AGU meeting, Dec. 8-12, 1997, San Francisco.

Surface Submicron Aerosol Chemical Composition: What Fraction is Not Sulfate? 2000. P.K. Quinn, T.S. Bates, T.L. Miller, D.J. Coffman, J.E. Johnson, J.M. Harris, J.A. Ogren, G. Forbes, T.L. Anderson, D.S. Covert & M.J. Rood. Journal of Geophysical Research 105(D5): 6785-6805.

Characterization of atmospheric aerosols across Canada from a ground-based sunphotometer network: AEROCAN. 2001. A.I. Bokoye, A. Royer, N.T. O'Neill, P.Cliche, G. Fedosejevs, P.M. Teillet & L.J.B. McArthur. 2001. Journal of Atmosphere-Ocean 39(4): 429-456.

Variability of aerosol optical properties at four North American surface monitoring sites. 2002. D.J. Delene & J.A. Ogren. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 59: 1135-1150.

Carbon dioxide

Eddy correlation measurement of sea-air CO//2 flux. 1978. E.P. Jones & S.D. Smith. NATO Conf. on Turbul. Fluxes Through The Sea Surf, Wave Dyn, and Predict, Marseille, Fr, Sep 12-16 1977 Publ by Plenum Press (NATO Conf Ser 5 Air-Sea Interact Vol.1), New York, NY and London, Engl, pages 137-149.

Trends of atmospheric CO2 over Canadian WMO background stations at ocean weather station P, Sable Island, and Alert. 1984. C.S. Wong, Y.H. Chan, J.S. Page, R.D. Bellegay & K.G. Pettit. 1984. Journal of Geophysical Research 89: 9527-9539.

Surface measurements of carbon dioxide and methane at Alert during an Arctic haze event in April. 1986. N.B.A. Trivett, D.E.J. Worthy & K.A. Brice. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 9: 383-397.

Trends and seasonal cycles of atmospheric CO2 over Alert, Sable Island, and Cape St. James, as analyzed by forward stepwise regression technique. 1989. N.B.A. Trivett & K. Higuchi. In: W.P. Elliot ed., The Statistical Treatment of CO2 Data Records. Air Resources Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Atmospheric CO2 records from sites in the AES air sampling network. 1994. N.B.A. Trivett, V.C. Hudec & C.S. Wong. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.

Variations of atmospheric carbon dioxide at Alert and Sable Island, Canada. 1998. Y.S. Chung. Atmospheric Environment Service, Toronto, Canada. Atmospheric Environment 22: 383-394

The North American Influence on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Observations at Sable Island, Canada. D.E.J. Worthy, K. Higuchi, N.B.A. Trivett, D. Ernst & G. Forbes. Submitted to Tellus.

Atmospheric dynamics

Spectra of humidity, temperature, and wind over the sea at Sable Island, Nova Scotia. 1984. S.D. Smith & R.J. Anderson. Journal of Geophysical Research 89: 2029-2040.

Boundary layer studies of winds over islands with applications to surface wind data from Grindstone Island and Sable Island. 1985. J.L. Walmsley, P.A. Taylor & J.R. Salmon. International Workshop on Offshore Winds and Icing. October 1985.

A study of boundary layer winds on Sable Island. 1986. J.L. Walmsley & J.R. Salmon. European Wind Energy Association Conference and Exhibition. October 1986.

Canadian Atlantic Storms Program: The Meteorological Field Project. 1987. R.E. Stewart, R.W. Shaw & G.A. Isaac. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 68: 338-345.

On theoretical wind speed and temperature profiles over the sea with applications to data from Sable Island, Nova Scotia. 1988. J.L. Walmsley. Atmosphere-Ocean 26(2): 203-233.

Organic contaminants

Hexachlorocyclohexanes in the North American atmosphere. 2004.  Shen, L., F. Wania, Y.D. Lei, C. Teixeira, D.C.G. Muir & T.F. Bidleman. Environmental Science and Technology 38: 965-975.

Organic contaminants in the Northwest Atlantic atmosphere at Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 1988-89. 1992. T.F. Bidleman, W.E. Cotham, R.F. Addison & M.E. Zinck. Chemosphere 24: 1389-1412.

Spatial and temporal variability of nonmethane hydrocarbon mixing ratios and their relation to photochemical lifetime. 1998. B.T. Jobson, D.D. Parrish, P. Goldan, W. Kuster, F.C. Fehsenfeld, D.R. Blake, N.J. Blake & H. Niki. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 13,557.

 

Combustion Emissions

Ground-based measurements of NOx and total reactive nitrogen (NOy) at Sable Island, Nova Scotia during the NARE 1993 summer intensive. 1994. T. Wang, M.A. Carroll, G.M. Alber, A. Markevitch, K.R. Owens, K.A. Duderstadt, F. Marsik, D.D. Parrish, J. Holloway, F.C. Fehsenfeld, J.A. Ogren, G. Forbes, N. Blake, D.R. Blake, J.T. Merrill & J.L. Moody. Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 75, Nov. 1, 1994, paper A11B-8.

Episodic removal of NOy species from the marine boundary layer over the North Atlantic. 1996. J.M. Roberts, D.D. Parrish, R.B. Norton, S.B. Bertman, J.S. Holloway, M. Trainer, F.C. Fehsenfeld, M.A. Carroll, G.M. Albercock, T. Wang & G. Forbes. Journal of Geophysical Research 101: 28,947-28,960.