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Title: | African and local wind-blown dust contributions at three rural sites in SE Spain: the aerosol size distribution |
Issue Date: | 3-Apr-2020 |
Date of creation: | 2009 |
Related subjects: | CDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales |
Keywords: | Desertificación |
Abstract: | The entrainment of particulate material into the atmosphere by wind action on surface soils both disturbed and natural, as well as directly due to human activities like agricultural practices, mineral industry operations, construction works and traffic, is a significant contribution to the aerosol load in Mediterranean semi-arid areas. A further crustal contribution in the region comes from the frequent arrival of African mineral dust plumes. We summarize some of the results obtained after 4-6 -month campaigns at three rural sites in SE Spain where the aerosol number size distribution (31 size bins between 0.25 and 32 μm) was continuously measured. The influence of both local wind speed and the arrival of air masses loaded with African dust on the airborne particulate distribution is assessed. Similarities and differences between the three locations give information that allows a better understanding of the influence of both local wind speed and African dust outbreaks (ADO), while highlight what is mostly related to local features. |
Primary author: | Orza, J.A.G. Cabello, M. Lidón, V. Martínez, J. |
Faculty / Departments / Services: | SCOLAb, Física Aplicada, Universidad Miguel Hernández Aeolian Erosion Research Group, Universidad Miguel Hernández |
Published in: | Congreso internacional sobre desertificación |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/89263 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Number of pages / Extensions: | 4 |
Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Appears in Collections: | Congreso Internacional sobre Desertificación. |
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