Measurement report: Spectral and statistical analysis of aerosol hygroscopic growth from multi-wavelength lidar measurements in Barcelona, Spain

Sicard, Michaël; Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, Daniel Camilo; Muñoz-Porcar, Constantino; Gil-Díaz, Cristina; Comerón, Adolfo; Rodríguez-Gómez, Alejandro; Dios Otín, Federico

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7681-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7681-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7681-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 11

Measurement report

|

14 Jun 2022

Measurement report |

| 14 Jun 2022

Measurement report: Spectral and statistical analysis of aerosol hygroscopic growth from multi-wavelength lidar measurements in Barcelona, Spain

Michaël Sicard, Daniel Camilo Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Cristina Gil-Díaz, Adolfo Comerón, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez, and Federico Dios Otín

Data sets

EARLINET All 2000-2015. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ The EARLINET publishing group 2000-2015 et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/EARLINET_All_2000-2015

Barcelona MPL Backscatter profiles at 00:00 and 12:00 UTC, between 2015 and 2018 M. Sicard, D. C. Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, C. Muñoz Porcar, C. Gil Díaz, A. Comerón Tejero, A. Rodríguez Gómez, and F. Dios Otín https://doi.org/10.34810/data195

Barcelona radiosounding files used in identified hygroscopicity cases, between 2015 and 2018 M. Sicard, D. C. Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, C. Muñoz Porcar, C. Gil Díaz, A. Comerón Tejero, A. Rodríguez Gómez, and F. Dios Otín https://doi.org/10.34810/data194

Short summary

Atmospheric particles can absorb water vapor, and this water uptake may change their properties, e.g., their size. In the coastal region of Barcelona, Spain, we observe that (1) smaller particles absorb more water vapor, in relative terms, than larger particles and (2) the particle capacity to absorb water vapor has no annual tendency, probably because the site background is quite constant (urban + marine aerosol regime).