Figure from Measurement of combustion effluent aerosols from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

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Figure 1. Smoothed time-series BC data from instrument at upwind location in ARO building. Extremely low concentrations of BC are measured in the background atmosphere in austral winter. The occasional large spikes are either from station emissions (under conditions of reversed prevailing winds) or local contamination.