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Columnar aerosol characterization over Scandinavia and Svalbard
Title: Columnar aerosol characterization over Scandinavia and Svalbard
Authors: Toledano, CarlosCachorro, Victoria E.Ortiz de Galisteo, José Pablo ORCID RESEARCHERID Autor AEMETBennouna, Yasmine
Keywords: Aerosoles; Ártico; AERONET; GAW; Escandinavia
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Citation: AIP Conference Proceedings. 2013, 1531, p. 384-387
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4804787
Abstract: An overview of sun photometer measurements of aerosol properties in Scandinavia and Svalbard was provided by Toledano et al. (2012) thanks to the collaborative effort of various research groups from different countries that maintain a number of observation sites in the European Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The spatial coverage of this kind of data has remarkably improved in the last years, thanks, among other things, to projects carried out within the framework of the International Polar Year 2007-08. The data from a set of operational sun photometer sites belonging either to national or international measurement networks (AERONET, GAW-PFR) were evaluated. The direct sun observations provided spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Ångström exponent (AE), that are parameters with sufficient long-term records for a first characterization at all sites. At the AERONET sites, microphysical properties derived from inversion of sun-sky radiance data were also examined. AOD (500nm) ranged from 0.08 to 0.10 in Arctic and sub-Arctic sites whereas the aerosol load was higher in more populated areas in Southern Scandinavia (average AOD about 0.10–0.12 at 500 nm).
Sponsorship : Financial support was provided by: the Spanish CICYT (CGL2008-05939-CO3-01/CLI, CGL2009-09740 and CGL2011-13085-E); the Norwegian Research Council for POLARCAT-Norway; and the Swedish National Space Board and ESA for Norrköping and Palgrunden sites. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement Nr. 262254 [ACTRIS].
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/13365
ISSN: 0094-243X
1551-7616
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