A combined analysis of backward trajectories and aerosol chemistry to characterise long-range transport episodes of particulate matter: The Madrid air basin, a case study

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 390, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 495-506

  Salvador, Pedro ^a   Artíñano, Begoña ^a   Querol, Xavier ^b   Alastuey, Andrés ^b  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Long range transport; PM10; PM2.5; Trajectory statistics

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; IONS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; TRAJECTORY STATISTICS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AMMONIA; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITRATE; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AEROSOL; AIR; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INCIDENCE; MASS; METEOROLOGY; MINERAL DUST; NORTH AFRICA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VELOCITY; WEATHER;

AIR MOVEMENTS; CITIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPAIN;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MADRID [SPAIN]; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 37149043320     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.052     Document Type: Article

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