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Atmospheric Pollution Research on Greenland

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Implications and Consequences of Anthropogenic Pollution in Polar Environments

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Danish studies in the Arctic atmosphere were almost all carried out on Greenland. There were not any specific programmes within IPY but activities were performed in the framework of Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Financed from Denmark by means from DANCEA. A long series of studies in other spheres than the atmosphere have also been carried out but they will not be described here as they are beyond the scope of this chapter.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science, Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Henrik Skov, Rossana Bossi, Andreas Massling, Lise-Lotte Sørensen, Jacob Klenø Nøjgaard, Jesper Christensen, Kaj Mantzius Hansen & Bjarne Jensen

  2. Department of Chemistry, Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Marianne Glasius

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Skov, H. et al. (2016). Atmospheric Pollution Research on Greenland. In: Kallenborn, R. (eds) Implications and Consequences of Anthropogenic Pollution in Polar Environments. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12315-3_3

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