Atmospheric composition variability in the framework of I-AMICA Italian Southern Mediterranean infrastructural project

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Abstract

The study and monitoring of absorbing aerosol and greenhouses gas variability due to natural andanthropic emissions capture great attention in the scientific community to study air quality and toinvestigate different climate scenarios, in particular in the Mediterranean Basin that is an hot spot forclimate change. In order to strengthen the environmental observation system in the Southern ItalianConvergence Regions I-AMICA (Infrastructure of High Technology for Environmental and ClimateMonitoring), a three year Italian National Operative Program (PON) project co-founded by the EuropeanRegional Development Fund, is being developed. The project also aim to strengthen the environmentalmonitoring in the South of Italy adopting both stationary and mobile in-situ stations for aerosols andgreenhouses gases and remote sensors, such as Raman lidars and wind lidars for atmospheric profiling.This work is based on the first observations performed at two stations: Lecce, a urban backgroundstation in the Apulia region and Lamezia Terme a background station in Calabria region. Differences inconcentration levels and in physical properties of aerosol at the two stations will be investigated. Threecase studies of long-range transport of natural aerosol creating exceedances of Air Quality Standard(AQS) daily threshold for PM10 will be investigated showing that the simultaneous analysis in the twosites helps in identifying these events and in evaluating their impact on atmospheric aerosol concentrations.

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  • Contini D.; Bonasoni P.; Bourcier L.;Busetto M.; Calidonna C.R.; Calzolari F.;Cristofanelli P.; D'Amico G.; Dinoi A.; Gullì D.;Landi T.C.; Marinoni A.; Donateo A.;Pappalardo G.; Sempreviva A.M.; Zaniboni S.

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ProScience

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2014

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2283-5954

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