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Presenting SAPUSS: Solving Aerosol Problem by Using Synergistic Strategies in Barcelona, Spain أستخدام نموذج سابوس لحل مشكلة الرذاذ باستخدام خطط متواكبة فى برشلونة بأسبانيا |
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Enviromental sciences |
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English |
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This paper presents the summary of the key objectives,
instrumentation and logistic details, goals, and initial
scientific findings of the European Marie Curie Action
SAPUSS project carried out in the western Mediterranean
Basin (WMB) during September–October in autumn 2010.
The key SAPUSS objective is to deduce aerosol source characteristics
and to understand the atmospheric processes responsible
for their generations and transformations – both
horizontally and vertically in the Mediterranean urban environment.
In order to achieve so, the unique approach of
SAPUSS is the concurrent measurements of aerosols with
multiple techniques occurring simultaneously in six monitoring
sites around the city of Barcelona (NE Spain): a main
road traffic site, two urban background sites, a regional background
site and two urban tower sites (150m and 545m
above sea level, 150m and 80m above ground, respectively).
SAPUSS allows us to advance our knowledge sensibly of
the atmospheric chemistry and physics of the urban Mediterranean
environment. This is well achieved only because of
both the three dimensional spatial scale and the high sampling
time resolution used. During SAPUSS different meteorological
regimes were encountered, including warm Saharan,
cold Atlantic, wet European and stagnant regional
ones. The different meteorology of such regimes is herein
described. Additionally, we report the trends of the parameters
regulated by air quality purposes (both gaseous and
aerosol mass concentrations); and we also compare the six
monitoring sites. High levels of traffic-related gaseous pollutants
were measured at the urban ground level monitoring
sites, whereas layers of tropospheric ozone were recorded
at tower levels. Particularly, tower level night-time average
ozone concentrations (80±25 μgm−3) were up to double
compared to ground level ones. The examination of the vertical
profiles clearly shows the predominant influence of NOx
on ozone concentrations, and a source of ozone aloft. Analysis
of the particulate matter (PM) mass concentrations shows
an enhancement of coarse particles (PM2.5−10) at the urban
ground level (+64 %, average 11.7 μgm−3) but of fine ones
(PM1) at urban tower level (+28 %, average 14.4 μgm−3).
These results show complex dynamics of the size-resolved
PM mass at both horizontal and vertical levels of the study
area. Preliminary modelling findings reveal an underestimation
of the fine accumulation aerosols. In summary, this paper
lays the foundation of SAPUSS, an integrated study of
relevance to many other similar urban Mediterranean coastal
environment sites. |
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1680-7316 |
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS |
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13 |
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17 |
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1434 AH
2013 AD |
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Article |
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 |
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Researchers
| M. Dall’Osto | Dall’Osto, M. | Researcher | | manuel.dallosto@gmail.com |
| X. Querol | Querol, X. | Researcher | | |
| A. Alastuey | Alastuey, A. | Researcher | | |
| M. C. Minguillon | Minguillon, M. C. | Researcher | | |
| M. Alier | Alier, M. | Researcher | | |
| F. Amato | Amato, F. | Researcher | | |
| M. Brines | Brines, M. | Researcher | | |
| M. Cusack | Cusack, M. | Researcher | | |
| J. O. Grimalt | Grimalt, J. O. | Researcher | | |
| A. Karanasiou | Karanasiou, A. | Researcher | | |
| T. Moreno | Moreno, T. | Researcher | | |
| M. Pandolfi | Pandolfi, M. | Researcher | | |
| J. Pey | Pey, J. | Researcher | | |
| C. Reche | Reche, C. | Researcher | | |
| A. Ripoll | Ripoll, A. | Researcher | | |
| R. Tauler | Tauler, R. | Researcher | | |
| B. L. Van Drooge | Van Drooge, B. L. | Researcher | | |
| M. Viana | Viana, M. | Researcher | | |
| R. M. Harrison | Harrison, R. M. | Researcher | | |
| J. Gietl | Gietl, J. | Researcher | | |
| D. Beddows | Beddows, D. | Researcher | | |
| W. Bloss | Bloss, W. | Researcher | | |
| C. O’Dowd | O’Dowd, C. | Researcher | | |
| D. Ceburnis | Ceburnis, D. | Researcher | | |
| G. Martucci | Martucci, G. | Researcher | | |
| N. L. Ng | Ng, N. L. | Researcher | | |
| D. Worsnop | Worsnop, D. | Researcher | | |
| J. Wenger | Wenger, J. | Researcher | | |
| E. Mc Gillicuddy | Gillicuddy, E. Mc | Researcher | | |
| J. Sodeau | Sodeau, J. | Researcher | | |
| R. Healy | Healy, R. | Researcher | | |
| F. Lucarelli | Lucarelli, F. | Researcher | | |
| S. Nava | Nava, S. | Researcher | | |
| J. L. Jimenez | Jimenez, J. L. | Researcher | | |
| F. Gomez Moreno | Gomez Moreno, F. | Researcher | | |
| B. Artinano | Artinano, B. | Researcher | | |
| A. S. H. Prévôt | Prévôt, A. S. H. | Researcher | | |
| L. Pfaffenberger | Pfaffenberger, L. | Researcher | | |
| S. Frey | Frey, S. | Researcher | | |
| F. Wilsenack | Wilsenack, F. | Researcher | | |
| D. Casabona | Casabona, D. | Researcher | | |
| P. Jiménez-Guerrero | Jiménez-Guerrero, P. | Researcher | | |
| D. Gross | Gross, D. | Researcher | | |
| N. Cots | Cots, N. | Researcher | | |
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