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Mateos Villán, David Cachorro Revilla, Victoria Eugenia Toledano Olmeda, Carlos Burgos Pérez, Ana María Bennouna, Yasmine Torres, Benjamín Fuertes Cocho, David González Caton, Ramiro Guirado Fuentes, Carmen Calle Montes, Abel Frutos Baraja, Ángel Máximo de Producción Científica The study of atmospheric aerosol load over the Iberian Peninsula (IP) under a climatological perspective is accomplished by means of PM10 and AOD440nm measurements from EMEP and AERONET networks, respectively, in the period 2000-2013. The PM10 annual cycles in five Iberian sectors show a main maximum in summer and a secondary in spring, which is only observed in the southern area for the AOD climatology. The characteristics of PM10-AOD annual cycles of each geographical sector are explained by the different climatology of the air mass origins and their apportioning. The two magnitudes are correlated with a factor ranging between 20 and 90 depending on the sector. The temporal evolution of the aerosol load has shown a notable decrease in the IP since the 1980s. Statistically significant trends are obtained in the Northeastern sector with a reduction of 26% (period 1985-2000) for the total suspended particles, which continues for the PM10 data with a value of 35% per decade (2001-2013), and also in the whole column, 61% per decade in the AOD440nm (2004-2013). 2018-09-29 2018-09-29 2015 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Science of The Total Environment 518–519, 378-392 http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/31923 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.002 378 518-519 392 Science of the Total Environment eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ELSEVIER