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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2019 Meeting
Section: Atmosphere and Earth Science; Environment Protection
Title:
Correlation between aerosol mass concentration and column aerosol optical depth from ground-based measurements
Authors:
Bianca MIHALACHE (1) , Sabina STEFAN (1) , Gabriela IORGA (1,2)
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Affiliation:
1) University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, P.O.BOX: MG-11, MÄgurele, Bucharest, Romania
2) University of Bucharest, Department of Physical Chemistry (Physics Group), Bd. Regina Elisabeta 4-12, 030018 Bucharest, Romania
E-mail
mhl.bianca10@gmail.com
Keywords:
PM10, AOD, AERONET, time-trend analysis
Abstract:
The knowledge of the pollutant concentrations in atmospheric studies is important in all atmospheric composition studies, especially for air quality and assessments of their impact on climate change. In this respect, combined in situ measurements by ground-based techniques and methods, as gravimetry and photometry, bring valuable information. Present research is dedicated to the study of the relationship between in situ measurement of aerosol concentration (PM10) by gravimetric methods and concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere column, using photometric methods. We prepared a database with coincident datasets from air-quality monitoring stations provided by Romanian National Agency for Environmental Protection (for PM10) and from ground-based photometers belonging to AEerosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) (for aerosol optical depth, AOD). The site chose for investigation is Magurele and coincident data covers the time period from 2015 to 2018. Data series have been statistically analyzed to determine temporal trends. Moreover, empirical relationships between PM10 and AOD have been inferred.
Acknowledgement:
We thank all principal investigators and their staff of AERONET team for processing the aerosol optics data (http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/aerosols.html). The ground-based data that were extracted from the public available National Air Quality Monitoring Network (www.calitateaer.ro), accessed in March 2019.
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