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Sánchez Gómez, María Luisa García Pérez, María Ángeles Pérez Bartolomé, Isidro Alberto Pardo Gómez, Nuria 2024-02-02T08:40:09Z 2024-02-02T08:40:09Z 2013 Environ Monit Assess (2014) 186:2823–2834 0167-6369 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/65558 10.1007/s10661-013-3583-7 2823 5 2834 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 186 1573-2959 Continuous methane, CH4, concentrations were measured in a rural area of the upper Spanish plateau from June 2010 to May 2012 by cavity ringdown spectroscopy technique. The results obtained have proven the local impact of anthropogenic nearby sources on CH4 concentrations, and evidence a significant influence on the overall mean, averaged daily and seasonal patterns recorded at the measuring site. The positive anomalies in CH4 concentrations, statistically significant at 95 %, in the southeast sector, defined here as ESE, SE, SSE and S sectors, have been attributed to the contribution of the Valladolid urban plume and the urban landfill. Based on this finding, CH4 background levels were associated to the concentrations recorded in the remaining un-disturbed sectors. CH4 means of the overall data set, the southeast sector and background sectors yielded average means of 1,894.1, 1,927.9 and 1,887.1 ppb, respectively. The diurnal and seasonal patterns of the overall data set and background concentrations have shown that CH4 concentrations are mainly dominated by its reaction with OH radicals. Maximum hourly concentrations were reached during night-time and early morning, 5–7 h, whereas minimum concentrations were recorded at 16 h. Maximum and minimum monthly means were recorded in January and July, respectively. The diurnal and seasonal amplitudes, namely, peak-to-peak means, of background concentrations were 25.1 and 48.1 ppb, respectively. These values were significantly lower than those obtained for the overall data set, 42.9 and 58.1 ppb, revealing the significant role of local influences on CH4 concentrations despite the low frequency of southeast winds recorded at the measuring site, 16.9 %. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 CH4 continuous measurements in the upper Spanish plateau info:eu-repo/semantics/article