Influence of Changes in the Prevailing Synoptic Conditions on the Response of Aerosol Characteristics to Land- and Sea-Breeze Circulations at a Coastal Station |
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| Authors: | K Krishna Moorthy Preetha S Pillai S Suresh Babu |
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| Institution: | (1) Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 022, India |
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| Abstract: | The changes in the response of near surfaceaerosol properties to land- and sea-breezecirculations, associated with the changes in the prevailing synoptic meteorological conditions, are examined for a tropical coastal station. Aerosol properties are nearly similar in both the breeze regimes (land and sea) during seasons of marine airmass while they are distinct during seasons of continental airmass. As the prevailing winds shift from continental to marine and the ambient weather changes from winter conditions to the humid monsoon season, the submicron mode, which dominated the aerosol mass-size distribution, is largely suppressed and the dominance of the super micron mode increases. During periods of continental air mass (winter), the aerosol loading is significantly higher in the land-breeze regime, (particularly in the submicron range) but as the winds shift to marine, the loading initially becomes insensitive to the breeze regimes and later becomes higher in the sea-breeze regime, particularly in the super micron range. |
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| Keywords: | Aerosol sampling Aerosol size distribution Aerosols and airmass types Coastal aerosols Land/sea breeze Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Impactor |
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