High temporal resolution measurements of dust composition in the Saharan Air Layer - dataset

This dataset contains observations of elemental composition of atmospheric aerosols performed at Izaña Observatory, located (28◦18’N, 16◦29′W) at 2367 m.a.s.l. (meters above sea level), in Tenerife island. The measurements were performed with the objective of studying the variability of Saharan dust...

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Autores: Rodríguez González, Sergio, Calzolai, Giulia, Chiari, Massimo, Nava, Silvia, García, M. Isabel, López-Solano, Javier, Marrero, Carlos, López-Darias, Jessica, Cuevas, Emilio, Alonso-Pérez, Silvia, Prats, Natalia, Amato, Fulvio, Lucarelli, Franco, Querol, Xavier
Tipo de recurso: conjunto de datos
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/187217
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/187217
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Saharan air layer
Saharan dust
Dust geochemistry
North Africa
NAFDI
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Sumario:This dataset contains observations of elemental composition of atmospheric aerosols performed at Izaña Observatory, located (28◦18’N, 16◦29′W) at 2367 m.a.s.l. (meters above sea level), in Tenerife island. The measurements were performed with the objective of studying the variability of Saharan dust composition. The samples were analyzed with the technique PIXE (Particle Induced X ray Emission) at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) at Florence (Italy). The variability of dust composition is compared with the variability of large-scale meteorology traced with the North African dipole Intensity (NAFDI), i.e. the differences of the anomaly of the geopotential heights at 700hPa between the subtropic (Morocco) and the tropic (Niger) in North Africa.