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. 2016 Nov 25;121(22):13678–13697. doi: 10.1002/2016JD025482

Table 4.

Relative Annual Mean Deposition (%) From Different Source Regions Globally and in Different Regions of the Arctica

Global Near Arctic, >60°N High Arctic, >80°N Greenland Greenland, > 2500 m Sea Ice
Africa 57.8 3.6 10.2 6.4 22.8 5.6
Asia S60 35.9 5.5 18.0 4.9 13.0 10.1
Australia 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Europe S60 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1
North America S60 1.4 0.7 1.3 2.2 6.1 0.8
South America 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Eurasia N60 1.2 35.9 30.2 1.1 1.3 11.5
Greenland 0.1 1.6 2.6 67.4 14.8 2.2
Iceland 0.2 5.8 2.0 9.0 33.6 1.3
North America N60 1.5 46.7 35.4 8.9 8.3 68.4
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Note that we did not account for a varying sea ice extent but used the sea ice extent of September 2012 [Fetterer et al., 2002] to identify the sea ice region.