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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-341 Preprint. Discussion started: 19 May 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. 1 1 Overview: Recent advances on the understanding of the Northern Eurasian environments and of the 2 urban air quality in China - Pan Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) program perspective 3 4 Hanna K. Lappalainen1,2, Tuukka Petäjä1,2, Timo Vihma3, Jouni Räisänen1, Alexander Baklanov4, Sergey 5 Chalov5, Igor Esau6, Ekaterina Ezhova1, Matti Leppäranta1 , Dmitry Pozdnyakov7, Jukka Pumpanen 8, Meinrat 6 O. Andreae9,42,43, Mikhail Arshinov10, Eija Asmi3, Jianhui Bai11, Igor Bashmachnikov7, Boris Belan10, Federico 7 Bianchi1, Boris Biskaborn12, Michael Boy1, Jaana Bäck13, Bin Cheng3, Natalia Ye Chubarova5, Jonathan 8 Duplissy1, Egor Dyukarev14, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis15, Martin Forsius16, Martin Heimann17, Sirkku 9 Juhola20, Vladimir Konovalov18, Igor Konovalov19, Pavel Konstantinov5,33, Kajar Koster13, Elena Lapsina 21, 10 Anna Lintunen1,13, Alexander Mahura1, Risto Makkonen3, Svetlana Malkhazova5, Ivan Mammarella1, Stefano 11 Mammola22,23, Stephany Mazon1, Outi Meinander3, Eugene Mikhailov24, 25, Victoria Miles6, Stanislav 12 Myslenko5, Dmitry Orlov5, Jean-Daniel Paris26, Roberta Pirazzini3, Olga Popovicheva27, Jouni Pulliainen3, 13 Kimmo Rautiainen3, Torsten Sachs28 , Vladimir Shevchenko29, Andrey Skorokhod30, Andreas Stohl31, Elli 14 Suhonen1, Erik S. Thomson 32, Marina Tsidilina39, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 34, Petteri Uotila1, Aki Virkkula3, 35 6 36 37 37 38 15 Nadezhda Voropay , Tobias Wolf , Sayaka Yasunaka , Jiahua Zhang , Yubao Qiu , .Aijun Ding , 37 39 5 1,2,3 1 16 Huadong Guo , Valery Bondur , Nikolay Kasimov , Sergej Zilitinkevich (☦) , Veli-Matti Kerminen and 17 Markku Kulmala1,2,39,40,41 18 19 1 Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of 20 Helsinki, Finland 21 2 Tyumen State University, Department of Cryosphere, 625003 Tyumen, Russia 22 3 Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00101 Helsinki, Finland 23 4 World Meteorological Organization, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland 24 5 Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Lenin Hills, 119991, Moscow, Russia 25 6 Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, 26 Norway 27 7 Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre”, Nansen Centre, NIERSC, St. 28 Petersburg, Russia 29 8 Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, PO Box 1627 (Address: Yliopistonranta 1 E), FI- 30 70211 Kuopio, Finland 31 9 Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany 32 10 V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics (IAO) SB RAS, Tomsk, 634055, Russia 33 11 LAGEO, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP-CAS), Beijing, 100029, 34 PR, China 35 12 Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany 36 13 Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research /Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 37 Finland 1 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-341 Preprint. Discussion started: 19 May 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. 2 38 14 Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems SB RAS, Tomsk, 634055, Russia; Yugra State 39 University, Khanty-Mansiysk, 628012, Russia 40 15 ERL, Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Science & Technology, Energy & Safety, NCSR Demokritos, 41 Attiki, Greece 42 16 Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki, Finland 43 17 Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany 44 18 Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia 45 19 Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 46 20 Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 47 21 Yugra State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, 634012, Russia 48 22 Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00100, Finland 49 23 Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council of Italy 50 (CNR), Verbania Pallanza, 28922, Italy 51 24 St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia 52 25 Multiphase Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Departments, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 53 Mainz, Germany 54 26 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, IPSL CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91190 Gif-sur- 55 Yvette, France 56 27 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 57 28 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany 58 29 P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 59 30 A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia 60 31 Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 61 32 Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden 62 33 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Laboratory of sSart technologies for sustainable 63 development of urban environment under global changes, Moscow, Russian Federation 64 34 Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 65 35 V B Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia; Institute of Monitoring of Climatic 66 and Ecological Systems SB RAS, Tomsk, 634055, Russia 67 36 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan 68 37 Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China 69 38 Joint International Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System sciences (JirLATEST), Nanjing 70 University, Nanjing, China 71 39 Institute for Scientific Research of Aerospace Monitoring "AEROCOSMOS", Moscow, 105064, Russia 72 40 Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Sciences and 73 Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), Beijing, China 74 41 Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China 75 42 Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-341 Preprint. Discussion started: 19 May 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. 3 76 43 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA 77 78 Corresponding author(s): Hanna Lappalainen, [email protected], Veli-Matti Kerminen, veli- 79 [email protected] 80 81 Keywords 82 Grand Challenges, climate change, land-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks, biogeochemical cycles, Arctic 83 Ocean, Northern Eurasia, China, Arctic marine ecosystem, atmospheric composition, air quality, Arctic 84 greening, land use change, permafrost, Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), Global Earth Observatory, Digital 85 Earth, Silk Road Economic Belt, Arctic societies, energy policy, boreal region, science diplomacy 86 87 Abstract 88 The Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) Science Plan, released in 2015, addressed a need for a holistic system 89 understanding and outlined the most urgent research needs for sustainable development in the Artic-boreal 90 region. Air quality in China and long-range transport of the atmospheric pollutants was also indicated as one 91 of the most crucial topics of the research agenda. This paper summarizes results obtained during the last five 92 years in the Northern Eurasian region. It also introduces recent observations on the air quality in the urban 93 environments in China. The main regions of interest are the Russian Arctic, Northern Eurasian boreal forests 94 (Siberia) and peatlands and on the mega cities in China. We frame our analysis against research themes 95 introduced in 2015. We summarize recent progress in the understanding of the land – atmosphere – ocean 96 systems feedbacks. Although the scientific knowledge in these regions has increased, there are still gaps in our 97 understanding of large-scale climate-Earth surface interactions and feedbacks. This arises from limitations in 98 research infrastructures and integrative data analyses, hindering a comprehensive system analysis. The fast- 99 changing environment and ecosystem changes driven by climate change, socio-economic activities like the 100 China Silk Road Initiative, and the global trends like urbanization further complicate such analyses. We 101 recognize new topics with an increasing importance in the near future, such as enhancing biological 102 sequestration capacity of greenhouse gases into forests and soils to mitigate the climate change and the socio- 103 economic development to tackle air quality issues. 104 3 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-341 Preprint. Discussion started: 19 May 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. 4 105 106 1. INTRODUCTION 107 Earth system is facing major challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, 108 epidemics and energy demand on a global scale (Ripple et al., 2017). These “Grand Challenges” are highly 109 connected and interlinked. This creates a need for an approach for a multidisciplinary scientific program, which 110 could deliver science based message to fast-tracked policy making (Kulmala et al., 2015). The recent estimates 111 based on the observed atmospheric concentrations of CO2 112 (ftp://aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/products/trends/co2/co2_mm_mlo.txt) and business-as-usual scenario show that 113 humankind should find solutions to answer the Grand Challenges. Deep understanding on the feedbacks and 114 interactions between the land – atmosphere – ocean domains and accounting for social aspects in the regions 115 of substantial