TY - JOUR 
A1 - Negral Álvarez, Luis
AU - Moreno Grau, Stella
AU - Querol Carceller, Xavier
AU - Moreno Grau, José María
AU - Viana Rodríguez, María del Mar
AU - García Sánchez, Antonio
AU - Alastuey Uros, Andrés
AU - Moreno Clavel, Joaquín
T1 - Weak pressure gradient over the Iberian Península and African dust outbreaks: a new dust long transport scenario
Y1 - 2012
SN - 0003-0007
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/4077
AB - African dust outbreaks over the Iberian Peninsula have been related to four synoptic patterns responsible for the advection of dust: 1. A North African high located at surface level. 2. An Atlantic depression centered over northwestern Africa, western Iberia or the southwest of the Portuguese coast with an associated high or ridge over the Mediterranean Sea. 3. A North African depression. 4. A North African high located at upper levels. Consequently, particulate matter (PM) levels in Iberia are expected to rise when any of these atmospheric synoptic scenarios prevail. Nevertheless, PM levels might not increase due to wet deposition, as Spain receives the most African-derived dust rain events of any European country. In this study, a meteorological scenario different than the above situations is evaluated.
KW - Ingeniería Química
KW - Geography
KW - Physics
KW - African dust
KW - Iberian Peninsula
KW - Saharan dust
KW - Particulate matter (PM)
LA - eng
PB - American Meteorological Society
ER -