Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) – concept and initial results

Tuukka Petäjä (1) , Ella-Maria Duplissy (1) , Ksenia Tabakova (1) , Julia Schmale (2, 3) , Barbara Altstädter (4) , Gérard Ancellet (5) , Mikhail Arshinov (6) , Yurii Balin (6) , Urs Baltensperger (2) , Jens Bange (7) , Alison Beamish (8) , Boris Belan (6) , Antoine Berchet (9, 10) , Rossana Bossi (11) , Warren R. L. Cairns (12) , Ralf Ebinghaus (13) , Imad El Haddad (2) , Beatriz Ferreira-Araujo (14) , Anna Franck (1) , Lin Huang (15) , Antti Hyvärinen (16) , Angelika Humbert (17, 18) , Athina-Cerise Kalogridis (9) , Pavel Konstantinov (19, 20) , Astrid Lampert (4) , Matthew Macleod (21) , Olivier Magand (22) , Alexander Mahura (1) , Louis Marelle (5, 22) , Vladimir Masloboev (23) , Dmitri Moisseev (1) , Vaios Moschos (2) , Niklas Neckel (17) , Tatsuo Onishi (5) , Stefan Osterwalder (22) , Aino Ovaska (1) , Pauli Paasonen (1) , Mikhail V. Panchenko (6) , Fidel Pankratov (24) , Jakob B. Pernov (11) , Andreas Platis (7) , Olga B. Popovicheva (24) , Jean-Christophe Raut (5) , Aurélie Riandet (9, 25) , Torsten Sachs (26) , Rosamaria Salvatori (27) , Roberto Salzano (27) , Schröder Ludwig (17) , Martin Schön (7) , Vladimir Shevchenko (28) , Henrik E. Skov (11) , Jeroen Sonke (14) , Andrea Spolaor (12) , Vasileios K. Stathopoulos (29) , Mikko Strahlendorff (16) , Jennie L. Thomas (22) , Vito Vitale (12) , Sterios Vratolis (29) , Carlo Barbante (12) , Sabine Chabrillat (8) , Aurélien Dommergue (22) , Konstantinos Eleftheriadis (29) , Jyri Heilimo (16) , Kathy S. Law (5) , Andreas Massling (11) , Steffen M. Noe (30) , Jean-Daniel Paris (9, 31) , André S. H. Prévôt (2) , Ilona Riipinen (21) , Birgit Wehner (32) , Zhiyong Xie (13) , Hanna K. Lappalainen (1)

1 INAR - Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research
2 LAC - Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry [Paul Scherrer Institute]
3 ENAC - School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
4 DLR Institute of Flight Guidance
5 TROPO - LATMOS
6 IAO - V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics
7 ZAG - Center for Applied Geoscience [Tübingen]
8 GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam
9 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
10 SATINV - Modélisation INVerse pour les mesures atmosphériques et SATellitaires
11 iCLIMATE Aarhus University Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change
12 CNR-ISP - Institute of Polar Sciences [Venezia-Mestre]
13 Centre for Materials and Coastal Research [Geesthacht]
14 GET - Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
15 Climate Research Division [Toronto]
16 Arctic Space Centre [Helsinki]
17 AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
18 Fachbereich Geowissenschaften [Bremen]
19 MSU Faculty of Geography [Moscow]
20 Laboratory of Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development of Urban Environment unplder Global Change
21 ACES - Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry [Stockholm]
22 IGE - Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
23 Kola Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences
24 SINP - D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
25 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
26 GFZ - GeoForschungsZentrum - Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
27 IIA - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research
28 SIO - P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
29 ERL - Environmental Radioactivity laboratory
30 IAES - Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
31 ICOS-RAMCES - ICOS-RAMCES
32 Department of Experimental Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics

The role of polar regions is increasing in terms of megatrends such as globalization, new transport routes, demography, and the use of natural resources with consequent effects on regional and transported pollutant concentrations. We set up the ERA-PLANET Strand 4 project “iCUPE – integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments” to provide novel insights and observational data on global grand challenges with an Arctic focus. We utilize an integrated approach combining in situ observations, satellite remote sensing Earth observations (EOs), and multi-scale modeling to synthesize data from comprehensive long-term measurements, intensive campaigns, and satellites to deliver data products, metrics, and indicators to stakeholders concerning the environmental status, availability, and extraction of natural resources in the polar areas. The iCUPE work consists of thematic state-of-the-art research and the provision of novel data in atmospheric pollution, local sources and transboundary transport, the characterization of arctic surfaces and their changes, an assessment of the concentrations and impacts of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants and their cycling, the quantification of emissions from natural resource extraction, and the validation and optimization of satellite Earth observation (EO) data streams. In this paper we introduce the iCUPE project and summarize initial results arising out of the integration of comprehensive in situ observations, satellite remote sensing, and multi-scale modeling in the Arctic context.

Domains: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]

Tuukka Petäjä, Ella-Maria Duplissy, Ksenia Tabakova, Julia Schmale, Barbara Altstädter, et al.. Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) – concept and initial results. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020, 20 (14), pp.8551-8592. ⟨10.5194/acp-20-8551-2020⟩. ⟨insu-02910116⟩