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T1 Columnar and surface aerosol load over the Iberian Peninsula establishing annual cycles, trends, and relationships in five geographical sectors
A1 Mateos Villán, David
A1 Cachorro Revilla, Victoria Eugenia
A1 Toledano Olmeda, Carlos
A1 Burgos Pérez, Ana María
A1 Bennouna, Yasmine
A1 Torres, Benjamín
A1 Fuertes Cocho, David
A1 González, Ramiro
A1 Guirado Fuentes, Carmen
A1 Calle Montes, Abel
A1 Frutos Baraja, Ángel Máximo de
AB 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).
PB ELSEVIER
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/31923
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/31923
LA eng
NO Science of The Total Environment 518–519, 378-392
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-jul-2024