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The study presents the results of continuous measurements of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmospheric surface layer at Tiksi and Cape Baranov Arctic stations over the period of August 2010–May 2017 and over the whole 2016, respectively. The amplitude of diurnal variations in the CO2 concentration in Tiksi from June to September is 1.1 ± 1.3, 2.4 ± 2.0, 4.1 ± 2.3, and 2.0 ± 2.4 ppm. Diurnal variations in CO2 at Cape Baranov station are absent. The observed seasonal variations in the CO2 concentration are compared with the data of the MBL empirical model for the marine atmospheric boundary layer of the Arctic region. In 2016, the difference between the observed and model concentrations at Tiksi and Cape Baranov stations amounted to 1.7 and 0.5 ppm, respectively, in winter and −3.0 and −1.9 ppm, respectively, in summer. It is shown that wildfires in Siberia caused a long synchronous increase in the CO2 concentration by 20 ppm in Tiksi and by 15 ppm at Cape Baranov station.
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Russian Text © V.M. Ivakhov, N.N. Paramonova, V.I. Privalov, A.V. Zinchenko, M.A. Loskutova, A.P. Makshtas, V.Y. Kustov, T. Laurila, M. Aurela, E. Asmi, 2019, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2019, No. 4, pp. 110–121.
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Ivakhov, V.M., Paramonova, N.N., Privalov, V.I. et al. Atmospheric Concentration of Carbon Dioxide at Tiksi and Cape Baranov Stations in 2010–2017. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 44, 291–299 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373919040095
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