Aerosol optical depth and Ångström exponent climatology at El Arenosillo AERONET site (Huelva, Spain)
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Abstract
Abstract Routine aerosol measurements have been carried out at INTA–El Arenosillo (Huelva, Spain) since February 2000 with a Cimel sun photometer integrated in the global aerosol monitoring network AERONET. A 5‐year aerosol database allows characterization and classification of aerosol properties, which define the local aerosol climatology. In this work two basic parameters for aerosol characterization, aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Ångström exponent, α, are used for aerosol analysis. The mean AOD is 0.18 ( ± 0.14) and the mean α is 1.05 ( ± 0.43). The AOD presents two peaks during the year, at the end of the winter and during the summer, which are related to the seasonal patterns of the desert dust aerosols which arrive at the south‐western Iberian Peninsula from North Africa. The Ångström exponent presents two frequency modes, related to the two main aerosol types present at El Arenosillo: coastal marine aerosols and desert dust. A main aerosol scenario (66% of data) is defined as coastal marine aerosols, with the influence of local sources of continental and polluted aerosols. Continental aerosols are present in 11% of cases, while the desert dust has a very relevant occurrence in around 20% of the data. Copyright © 2007 Royal Meteorological Society
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