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Title: Composition of air masses in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) according to their origins

Abstract

The Centro Nacional de Sanidad Ambiental has among their duties the background atmospheric pollution monitoring in Spain. To do so, the laboratory has set up 6 field stations in the Iberian Peninsula. In these stations, both gaseous and particulate pollutants are currently analyzed. However, there is a lack of data about the atmospheric pollution in the Canary, where they are a very strong influence of natural emissions from sea and the Saharan desert, mixed with anthropogenic ones. Therefore, during the ASTEX/MAGE project the CNSA established a station in Fuerteventura island, characterized by the nonexistence of man-made emissions, to measure some atmospheric pollutants, in order to foresee their origins. In this study, the authors analyzed some pollutants that are used to obtain a clue about the sources of air masses such as gaseous ozone and metallic compounds (vanadium, iron and manganese) in the atmospheric aerosol fractionated by size.

Authors:
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  1. Centro Nacional de Sanidad Ambiental, Madrid (Spain). Inst. de Salud Carlos III
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
467665
Report Number(s):
CONF-9409461-
TRN: IM9721%%93
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 2. International conference on air-sea interaction and on meterology and oceanography of the coastal zone, Lisbon (Portugal), 22-27 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]; Related Information: Is Part Of Second international conference on air-sea interaction and on meteorology and oceanography of the coastal zone; PB: 343 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AIR POLLUTION; OZONE; VANADIUM; IRON; MANGANESE; CANARY ISLANDS; AIR POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION SOURCES

Citation Formats

Patier, R F, Diez Hernandez, P, Diaz Ramiro, E, Ballesteros, J S, and Santos-Alves, S.G. dos. Composition of air masses in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) according to their origins. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Patier, R F, Diez Hernandez, P, Diaz Ramiro, E, Ballesteros, J S, & Santos-Alves, S.G. dos. Composition of air masses in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) according to their origins. United States.
Patier, R F, Diez Hernandez, P, Diaz Ramiro, E, Ballesteros, J S, and Santos-Alves, S.G. dos. 1994. "Composition of air masses in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) according to their origins". United States.
@article{osti_467665,
title = {Composition of air masses in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) according to their origins},
author = {Patier, R F and Diez Hernandez, P and Diaz Ramiro, E and Ballesteros, J S and Santos-Alves, S.G. dos},
abstractNote = {The Centro Nacional de Sanidad Ambiental has among their duties the background atmospheric pollution monitoring in Spain. To do so, the laboratory has set up 6 field stations in the Iberian Peninsula. In these stations, both gaseous and particulate pollutants are currently analyzed. However, there is a lack of data about the atmospheric pollution in the Canary, where they are a very strong influence of natural emissions from sea and the Saharan desert, mixed with anthropogenic ones. Therefore, during the ASTEX/MAGE project the CNSA established a station in Fuerteventura island, characterized by the nonexistence of man-made emissions, to measure some atmospheric pollutants, in order to foresee their origins. In this study, the authors analyzed some pollutants that are used to obtain a clue about the sources of air masses such as gaseous ozone and metallic compounds (vanadium, iron and manganese) in the atmospheric aerosol fractionated by size.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/467665}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994}
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