Detection of Sahara dust intrusions during mixed advection patterns over south-east Italy: A case study (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Detection of Sahara dust intrusions during mixed advection patterns over south-east Italy: A case study (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.02.003 (literal)
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  • Pavese G; De Tommasi F; Calvello M; Esposito F; Perrone MR (2009)
    Detection of Sahara dust intrusions during mixed advection patterns over south-east Italy: A case study
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  • Pavese G; De Tommasi F; Calvello M; Esposito F; Perrone MR (literal)
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  • Physics Department, Universita' del Salento, Via Per Arnesano 73100, Lecce, Italy CNR-IMAA ctr.da S. Loja 85050, Tito Scalo, Italy DIFA Università della Basilicata, ctr.da Macchia Romana 85100, Potenza, Italy (literal)
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  • Detection of Sahara dust intrusions during mixed advection patterns over south-east Italy: A case study (literal)
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  • Measurements from July 4 to July 8, 2005 by a high resolution visible radiometer, a Raman lidar, a ground particulate matter sampler, and ground meteorological sensors have been combined in synergy to infer the intrusion over south-east Italy, of air masses from north-west Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the continental Europe. It is shown that backscatter coefficient, depolarization-ratio, and lidar ratio vertical profiles represent the best tools to detect the intrusion of long range transported air masses and to monitor their effects on the vertical distribution of aerosol optical and microphysical properties. High resolution radiometers are instead important tools to monitor changes on columnar aerosol properties and size distributions. Backscatter coefficient, depolarization-ratio, and lidar ratio vertical profiles have revealed that aerosol optical and microphysical properties significantly changed with time and space during African dust outbreaks: the intrusion of dust particles that at first occurred above 2 km of altitude extending up to 6 km, affected the all aerosol load down to ground within few hours. Aerosol size distributions showed during dust events a clear bimodality with an accumulation mode maximum at 0.24 µm and a coarse mode maximum at 0.94 ¼m. Conversely, we have found that during the advection of air masses from the Atlantic and continental Europe, aerosol particles were mainly located below 2 km, their optical and microphysical properties were affected by smaller changes in time and space, and were characterized by depolarization ratios rather close to those due to a pure molecular atmosphere. In this case bimodal size distributions with an accumulation mode showing two sub-modes at 0.16 ¼m and 0.24 ¼m, respectively and a coarse mode centred at 0.94 ¼m have also been observed. (literal)
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