Black carbon aerosol (BC), a strong absorber of visible light, constitutes a small but significant fraction of the effluent arising from carbonaceous fuel combustion processes. Estimates of the source strengths and geographical distribution of BC emissions, needed to model their effects on radiative transfer, are currently unavailable. In this letter we present a methodology for estimating regional emissions of BC in Arctic latitudes based on the synthesis of three independent pieces of information: time-resolved measurements of BC and CO2 at Pt. Barrow, Alaska; long-range atmospheric trajectory analyses; and tabulated value of regional fuel consumption. From a limited data base we obtain an example result indicting annual BC emissions in the Novaya Zemlya/Taymyr Peninsula regions of the northern U.S.S.R. on the order of 108 g yr-1. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989