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Research article
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06 Oct 2023
Research article |
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Aerosol optical depth climatology from the high-resolution MAIAC product over Europe: differences between major European cities and their surrounding environments
Ludovico Di Antonio
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Univ Paris Est Creteil, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LISA, F-94010 Créteil, France
Claudia Di Biagio
Université Paris Cité, Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LISA, F-75013 Paris, France
Gilles Foret
Univ Paris Est Creteil, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LISA, F-94010 Créteil, France
Paola Formenti
Université Paris Cité, Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LISA, F-75013 Paris, France
Guillaume Siour
Univ Paris Est Creteil, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LISA, F-94010 Créteil, France
Jean-François Doussin
Univ Paris Est Creteil, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, LISA, F-94010 Créteil, France
Matthias Beekmann
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Université Paris Cité, Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LISA, F-75013 Paris, France
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Long-term (2000–2021) 1 km resolution satellite data have been used to investigate the climatological aerosol optical depth (AOD) variability and trends at different scales in Europe. Average enhancements of the local-to-regional AOD ratio at 550 nm of 57 %, 55 %, 39 % and 32 % are found for large metropolitan areas such as Barcelona, Lisbon, Paris and Athens, respectively, suggesting a non-negligible enhancement of the aerosol burden through local emissions.
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