A 12-year analysis, from 2005 to 2016, of atmospheric aerosol optical properties focusing for the first time on Northeast Brazil (NEB) was performed based on four different remote sensing datasets: the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), the Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) and a ground-based Lidar from Natal. We evaluated and identified distinct aerosol types, considering Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and Angström Exponent (AE). All analyses show that over the NEB, a low aerosol scenario prevails, while there are two distinct seasons of more elevated AOD that occur every year, from August to October and January to March. According to MODIS, AOD values ranges from 0.04 to 0.52 over the region with a mean of 0.20 and occasionally isolated outliers of up to 1.21. Aerosol types were identified as sea spray, biomass burning, and dust aerosols mostly transported from tropical Africa. Three case studies on days with elevated AOD were performed. All cases identified the same aerosol types and modeled HYSPLIT backward trajectories confirmed their source-dependent origins. This analysis is motivated by the implementation of an atmospheric chemistry model with an advanced data assimilation system that will use the observational database over NEB with the model to overcome high uncertainties in the model results induced by still unvalidated emission inventories.
A região Sul do Brasil sofre a influência de entradas de plumas de queimadas das regiões Norte e Centro-Oeste do Brasil. O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar entradas de plumas de aerossóis de queimadas na região Sul do Brasil assim como as épocas com maiores valores de Espessura Óptica dos Aerossóis (EOA) e as áreas mais afetadas por aerossóis atenuadores na região Sul do Brasil. Utilizou-se dados de EOA e Expoente de Angstrom (EA) obtidos através do sensor MODIS (MODerate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) a bordo do satélite AQUA no comprimento de onda de 0,55μm para a EOA e de 0,47 a 0,66 μm para o EA no período de 2002 a 2011. Observouse que os aerossóis dominantes na atmosfera da região Sul do Brasil são pouco atenuadores de radiação (com baixos valores de EOA), porém há casos com valores elevados de EOA o que indica a presença de partículas atenuadoras de radiação. Além disto, foi observado que os casos com valores elevados de EOA ocorreram entre o inverno e a primavera, principalmente na região noroeste da área de estudo.
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