Physicochemical variations in atmospheric aerosols recorded at sea onboard the Atlantic-Mediterranean 2008 Scholar Ship cruise (Part I): Particle mass concentrations, size ratios, and main chemical components

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 2552-2562

  Pérez, Noemí ^a   Moreno, Teresa ^a   Querol, Xavier ^a   Alastuey, Andrés ^a   Bhatia, Ravinder ^b,c   Spiro, Baruch ^d   Hanvey, Melanie ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b Formerly with The Scholar Ship Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution at sea; Marine aerosols; PM10 levels

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHEMICAL COMPONENT; CLEAN AIR; DESERT DUST; DUST CLOUDS; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST INTRUSIONS; ENGLISH CHANNEL; GIBRALTARS; H FILTER; ISTANBUL; MARINE AEROSOLS; NORTH AFRICA; ON-BOARD MONITORING; PARTICLE MASS; PARTICLE-SIZE FRACTIONS; PORT CITY; REGIONAL POLLUTION; ROUGH SEAS; SEA SPRAY; SECONDARY INORGANIC AEROSOL; SHIP CRUISE; SIZE RATIO; SMOKE PLUME; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SULPHATES; TOTAL CARBON;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DUST; MARINE POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; SHIPS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

CARBON; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; MARINE POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AEROSOL; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CITY; COMBUSTION; DUST; GERMANY; INDUSTRIAL SULFATE CLOUD; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA; SHIP; SMOKE; SPAIN; SPRING; TRAVEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ENGLISH CHANNEL; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; TURKEY;

EID: 77953618102     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.04.023     Document Type: Article

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