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The Influence of Wildfires on Aerosol Size Distributions in Rural Areas

Author(s) -

E. Alonso-Blanco,

Ana Calvo,

Roberto Fraile,

Amaya Castro

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/2012/735697

Subject(s) - aerosol , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , particle size , particle size distribution , smoke , mode (computer interface) , plume , particle (ecology) , meteorology , physical geography , geography , physics , chemistry , geology , computer science , oceanography , operating system

The number of particles and their size distributions were measured in a rural area, during the summer, using a PCASP-X. The aim was to study the influence of wildfires on particle size distributions. The comparative studies carried out reveal an average increase of around ten times in the number of particles in the fine mode, especially in sizes between 0.10 and 0.14 μ m, where the increase is of nearly 20 times. An analysis carried out at three different points in time—before, during, and after the passing of the smoke plume from the wildfires—shows that the mean geometric diameter of the fine mode in the measurements affected by the fire is smaller than the one obtained in the measurements carried out immediately before and after (0.14 μ m) and presents average values of 0.11 μ m.

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