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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lelieveld, J.
• Berresheim, H.
• Borrmann, S.
• Crutzen, P. J.
• Dentener, F. J.
• Fischer, H.
• Feichter, J.
• Flatau, P. J.
• Heland, J.
• Holzinger, R.
• Korrmann, R.
• Lawrence, M. G.
• Levin, Z.
• Markowicz, K. M.
• Mihalopoulos, N.
• Minikin, A.
• Ramanathan, V.
• de Reus, M.
• Roelofs, G. J.
• Scheeren, H. A.
• Sciare, J.
• Schlager, H.
• Schultz, M.
• Siegmund, P.
• Steil, B.
• Stephanou, E. G.
• Stier, P.
• Traub, M.
• Warneke, C.
• Williams, J.
• Ziereis, H.

Titel

Global Air Pollution Crossroads over the Mediterranean

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2002-10, Vol.298 (5594), p.794-799

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Mediterranean Intensive Oxidant Study, performed in the summer of 2001, uncovered air pollution layers from the surface to an altitude of 15 kilometers. In the boundary layer, air pollution standards are exceeded throughout the region, caused by West and East European pollution from the north. Aerosol particles also reduce solar radiation penetration to the surface, which can suppress precipitation. In the middle troposphere, Asian and to a lesser extent North American pollution is transported from the west. Additional Asian pollution from the east, transported from the monsoon in the upper troposphere, crosses the Mediterranean tropopause, which pollutes the lower stratosphere at middle latitudes.