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Atmosphere, Volume 8, Issue 12

December 2017 - 28 articles

Cover Story: The carbonaceous aerosol is suspected of being more toxic than other PM10 constituents. Here, we show that the toxicological effects associated with this aerosol type are higher for smaller particle sizes—in the ultrafine particle size range (diameter < 100 nm)—that typically occur at low particle mass concentrations, and only for certain combinations of particle size and composition. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,929 Views
13 Pages

1 December 2017

The concentrations and size distributions of culturable bacterial aerosols were measured during spring and winter in outdoor air in Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland. This research on culturable bacteria was carried over a period of two years. The sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,874 Views
13 Pages

Estimating Uncertainty in Global Mercury Emission Source and Deposition Receptor Relationships

  • Francesco De Simone,
  • Ian M. Hedgecock,
  • Francesco Carbone,
  • Sergio Cinnirella,
  • Francesca Sprovieri and
  • Nicola Pirrone

29 November 2017

Establishing mercury (Hg) source-receptor (SR) relationship matrices provides a tool to improve the understanding of the geographic relationship between regions of Hg release and its eventual deposition. SR relationship matrices are therefore a usefu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,008 Views
11 Pages

Integrated Regional Enstrophy and Block Intensity as a Measure of Kolmogorov Entropy

  • Andrew D. Jensen,
  • Anthony R. Lupo,
  • Igor I. Mokhov,
  • Mirseid G. Akperov and
  • DeVondria D. Reynolds

29 November 2017

Enstrophy in a fluid relates to the dissipation tendency in a fluid that has use in studying turbulent flows. It also corresponds to vorticity as kinetic energy does to velocity. Earlier work showed that the integrated regional enstrophy (IRE) was re...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,217 Views
7 Pages

28 November 2017

Intraseasonal (IS) variability in South America is efficiently described through the first empirical orthogonal function of filtered precipitation or outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) anomalies. In the 30–90-day band, the leading OLR pattern between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,780 Views
14 Pages

North Atlantic and Indian Ocean links with Iraq Climate

  • Jasim Al-Khalidi,
  • Mihai Dima,
  • Petru Vaideanu and
  • Sabina Stefan

26 November 2017

We investigate the connections of the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean sectors with Iraq winter/summer temperature and precipitation. Canonical Correlation Analyses (CCAs) are performed in order to identify potential links between Iraq climate and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
6,695 Views
14 Pages

Annual Variability of Black Carbon Concentrations Originating from Biomass and Fossil Fuel Combustion for the Suburban Aerosol in Athens, Greece

  • Evangelia Diapouli,
  • Athina-Cerise Kalogridis,
  • Christina Markantonaki,
  • Stergios Vratolis,
  • Prodromos Fetfatzis,
  • Cristina Colombi and
  • Konstantinos Eleftheriadis

25 November 2017

The objective of this work was to assess the yearly contribution of fossil fuel combustion (BCff) and wood burning (BCwb) to equivalent black carbon (eBC) concentrations, in Athens, Greece. Measurements were conducted at a suburban site from March 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,714 Views
19 Pages

Drop Size Distribution Climatology in Cévennes-Vivarais Region, France

  • Sahar Hachani,
  • Brice Boudevillain,
  • Guy Delrieu and
  • Zoubeida Bargaoui

25 November 2017

Mediterranean regions are prone to heavy rainfall, flash floods, and erosion issues. Drop size distribution (DSD) is a key element for studying these phenomena through the hydrological variables which can be derived from it (rainfall rates and totals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,555 Views
19 Pages

Practical Field Calibration of Portable Monitors for Mobile Measurements of Multiple Air Pollutants

  • Chun Lin,
  • Nicola Masey,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Mark Jackson,
  • David J. Carruthers,
  • Stefan Reis,
  • Ruth M. Doherty,
  • Iain J. Beverland and
  • Mathew R. Heal

23 November 2017

To reduce inaccuracies in the measurement of air pollutants by portable monitors it is necessary to establish quantitative calibration relationships against their respective reference analyser. This is usually done under controlled laboratory conditi...

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