Title
Development of a fetch dependent sea-spray source function using aerosol concentration measurements in the North-Western Mediterranean
Author
Laussac, S.
Piazzola, J.
Tedeschi, G.
Yohia, C.
Canepa, E.
Rizza, U.
van Eijk, A.M.J.
Publication year
2018
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to determine an accurate formulation for the sea-spray source function characteristic for the North-Western Mediterranean. To this end, the MACMod aerosol transport model was implemented in the study area using different sea-state dependent flux formulations. The simulations were compared to a large data set of aerosol size distributions acquired over the last ten years in the study area, yielding the evolution of the sea-spray concentrations with increasing fetch and hence, with the development of the wave field. This allowed for an improvement of the Demoisson et al. (2013) sea-spray source function (S3F) for the Mediterranean. The new formulation extends its validity to shorter fetch and larger radii and turned out to be most suitable for predicting the atmospheric concentrations of sea-spray aerosols in this region. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
Subject
Atmospheric modeling
Coastal aerosols
Fetch
Sea-spray source function
Atmospheric aerosols
Ocean currents
Aerosol size distributions
Aerosol transport model
Atmospheric concentration
Atmospheric model
Coastal aerosols
Source functions
Western Mediterranean
Atmospheric movements
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TNO identifier
842682
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
ISSN
1352-2310
Source
Atmospheric Environment, 193, 177-189
Document type
article