Multi-year investigations of aerosols from an island station, Port Blair, in the Bay of Bengal: climatology and source impacts

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Beegum, S. Naseema [1 ]
Moorthy, K. Krishna [2 ]
Gogoi, Mukunda M. [2 ]
Babu, S. Suresh [2 ]
Pandey, S. K. [3 ]
机构
[1] CSIR, Natl Phys Lab, New Delhi 110012, India
[2] VSSC, Space Phys Lab, Thiruvananthapuram 695022, Kerala, India
[3] ISTRAC Ground Stn, Dolly Gunj 744101, Port Blair, India
关键词
Atmospheric composition and structure; Aerosols and particles; SPECTRAL OPTICAL DEPTH; SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN-OCEAN; ANGSTROM EXPONENT; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE; PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES; ATHENS AREA; SHIP-BORNE; MONSOON;
D O I
10.5194/angeo-30-1113-2012
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Long-term measurements of spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) using multi-wavelength solar radiometer (MWR) for a period of seven years (from 2002 to 2008) from the island location, Port Blair (11.63A degrees N, 92.7A degrees E, PBR) in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), along with the concurrent measurements of the size distribution of near-surface aerosols, have been analyzed to delineate the climatological features of aerosols over eastern BoB. In order to identity the contribution of different aerosol types from distinct sources, concentration weighted trajectory (CWT) analysis has been employed. Climatologically, AODs increase from January to reach peak value of similar to 0.4 (at 500 nm) in March, followed by a weak decrease towards May. Over this general pattern, significant modulations of intra-seasonal time scales, caused by the changes in the relative strength of distinctively different sources, are noticed. The derivative (alpha') of the Angstrom wavelength exponent alpha in the wavelength domain, along with CWT analysis, are used to delineate the different important aerosol types that influence this remote island. Corresponding changes in the aerosol size distributions are inferred from the numerical inversion of the spectral AODs as well from (surface) measurements. The analyses revealed that advection plays a major role in modifying the aerosol properties over the remote island location, the potential sources contributing to the accumulation mode (coarse mode) aerosols over eastern BoB being the East Asia and South China regions (Indian mainland and the oceanic regions).
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页数:15
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