Retrieval of spatial field of atmospheric aerosol concentration according to data from local measurements: A modification of the method of back trajectory statistics

The well-known method of the back trajectory statistics (BTS) is used to develop a new approach to estimating atmospheric pollution fields according to local measurements. On the basis of instrumental measurements at one or a few monitoring points and information on atmospheric dynamics (in this wor...

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Published in:Izvestiya. Atmospheric and oceanic physics 2013-07, Vol.49 (4), p.404-410
Main Authors: Poddubny, V. A., Nagovitsyna, E. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerosols
Air pollution
Atmospheric sciences
Climatology
Data analysis
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Geophysics/Geodesy
Marine
Measurement techniques
Spatial distribution
Statistical analysis
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Summary:The well-known method of the back trajectory statistics (BTS) is used to develop a new approach to estimating atmospheric pollution fields according to local measurements. On the basis of instrumental measurements at one or a few monitoring points and information on atmospheric dynamics (in this work, back trajectories of the motion of air particles), the BTS method makes it possible to estimate the spatial structure of fields of a measured quantity. Results from solving a simplified demonstration of estimating the spatial distribution of the volume concentration of a fine aerosol fraction are presented; these results were obtained on the basis of an analysis of photometric measurements in the period of 2004–2010 at six AERO-NET monitoring sites on the territory of Russia: Zvenigorod, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Yakutsk, and Ussuriisk.
ISSN:0001-4338
1555-628X
DOI:10.1134/S0001433813040075