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Date ( Publication )

2011-04-05T03:00:00

Purpose

Black carbon (BC) is a primary aerosol resulting from incomplete combustion processes.

His main sources are fossil fuel (anthropogenic) and biomass burning (natural and anthropogenic). However the major sources of atmospheric BC are related to anthropogenic activities. Due to its chemical inertia, BC is ubiquitous in the atmosphere, present at low levels in remote areas, and higher concentrations near the sources, in urban area and near biomass burning regions. BC strongly absorbs solar radiation and it has been recognised as a driving factor of global warming: the magnitude of the direct radiative forcing due to BC can exceed that due to methane. Therefore continuous measurements of black carbon concentration in background conditions are important to determine source regions, elucidate the mechanisms of long range transport and validate both regional and global models. High-elevation monitoring sites provide important information on the not well-known free troposphere composition, in order to characterize its typical background conditions and investigate the influence of human activity on its composition.

Status

On going

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Keywords

• PSAP , Black carbon , Aerosol absorption coefficient , High Altitude , SHARE , Station , Network , Apennines

Keywords

• GAW , EUSAAR , ACRIS , Environmental monitoring facilities , Atmospheric conditions

Use limitation

No conditions apply

Access constraints

Copyright

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UTF8

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Supplemental Information

Reference system identifier

EPSG / WGS 1984 / 7.4

Topology level

Geometry only

Geometric object type

Point

Geometric object count

1

OnLine resource

Mt. Cimone website  

Official website of the Mount Cimone Station - Italian Climate Observatory "Ottavio Vittori"

OnLine resource

ACTRIS Website  

ACTRIS is a European Project aiming at integrating European ground-based stations equipped with advanced atmospheric probing instrumentation for aerosols, clouds, and short-lived gas-phase species.

OnLine resource

EBAS Website  

EBAS is a database hosting observation data of atmospheric chemical composition and physical properties. EBAS hosts data submitted by data originators in support of a number of national and international programs ranging from monitoring activities to research projects. EBAS is developed and operated by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU).

OnLine resource

gn:MountCimone  

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OnLine resource

EBAS official web site  

Black carbon data- EBAS - World Data Centre for Aerosol (WDCA)

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Series

Statement

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier

ea2a0b93-01b0-41f5-bbe3-972cef271d9d   XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Parent identifier

85a5e12e-7933-49a4-8ad7-05a61655dbd6

Hierarchy level

Series

Date stamp

2012-01-30T23:16:09

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0