Enrique Mantilla

TL;DR: Multi-year ambient speciated PM10 and PM2.5 data collected at four strategic sampling locations around the Bay of Algeciras (southern Spain), and positive matrix factorisation model were used to identify major PM sources with particular attention paid to the quantification of total shipping emissions.

TL;DR: The results show that it would be very difficult to meet the EU limit values for PM10 established for 2010, and the main PM10 sources were mineral dust, emissions derived from power generation, vehicle exhausts, and marine aerosol.

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology based on PM2.5 measurement alone is not adequate for monitoring the impact of primary particulate emissions (such as ceramic emissions) on air quality, since the major ambient air particles derived from these emissions are mainly in the range of 2.5-10μm.

TL;DR: The MECAPIP project of EC has served to document the summer atmospheric circulations and related air pollution dynamics over Spain and the Western Mediterranean as mentioned in this paper, and experimental evidence indicates that during the day the sea breezes can transport ozone 60 to 100, or more, km inland, during the afternoon, photo-oxidants are injected 3 to 5 km into the mid-troposphere over the Spanish Central plateau, and stratified reservoir layers, stacked up to ≈2-3 km high, build up along the Mediterranean coast.

TL;DR: In this paper, the representativeness of any station is determined by the (fore)knowledge of the processes affecting the site, at proper timescales and space scales within its region.