Seasonal rainfall trends of a key Mediterranean area in relation to large-scale atmospheric circulation: How does current global change affect the rainfall regime?

M Luppichini, M Bini, M Barsanti, R Giannecchini… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current global warming causes a change in atmospheric dynamics, with consequent
variations in the rainfall regimes. Understanding the relationship between global climate …

Synoptic classification of meteorological patterns and their impact on air pollution episodes and new particle formation processes in a south European air basin

P Salvador, M Barreiro, FJ Gómez-Moreno… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
A circulation classification technique based on daily sea level pressure fields was applied to
classify homogeneous synoptic types in the period 2001–2019 for the Iberian Peninsula (IP) …

Statistical relationships between large-scale circulation patterns and local-scale effects: NAO and rainfall regime in a key area of the Mediterranean basin

M Luppichini, M Barsanti, R Giannecchini, M Bini - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigated the correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
index and the rainfall trend in Tuscany (Italy) by using a large number of rain gauges for a …

Quantifying dry and wet deposition fluxes in two regions of contrasting African influence: The NE Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands

S Castillo, A Alastuey, E Cuevas, X Querol, A Avila - Atmosphere, 2017 - mdpi.com
This study considers the role of distance to the African source on the amount of deposition.
To this end, dry and wet deposition was measured at a site close to Africa (Santa Cruz de …

Phenomenology and geographical gradients of atmospheric deposition in southwestern Europe: Results from a multi-site monitoring network

J Pey, JC Larrasoaña, N Pérez, JC Cerro… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article presents the results of atmospheric deposition from a 15-sites network which
cover remote, agricultural, urban and industrial areas in the Iberian Peninsula and the …

Sea spray influences water chemical composition of Mediterranean semi-natural springs

M Fernández-Martínez, O Margalef, F Sayol, D Asensio… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Sea spray aerosol (SSA) is responsible for the large-scale transfer of particles from the sea
to the land, leading to significant deposition of a range of ions, predominantly Na+, K+, Mg …

Long-term effects of changing atmospheric pollution on throughfall, bulk deposition and streamwaters in a Mediterranean forest

L Aguillaume, A Rodrigo, A Avila - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
The abatement programs implanted in Europe to reduce SO 2, NO 2 and NH 3 emissions
are here evaluated by analyzing the relationships between emissions in Spain and …

Influence of long-range atmospheric transport pathways and climate teleconnection patterns on the variability of surface 210Pb and 7Be concentrations in …

C Grossi, J Ballester, I Serrano, S Galmarini… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The variability of the atmospheric concentration of the 7 Be and 210 Pb radionuclides is
strongly linked to the origin of air masses, the strength of their sources and the processes of …

Influence of the North Atlantic oscillation on the atmospheric levels of benzo [a] pyrene over Europe

P Jiménez-Guerrero, N Ratola - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
The atmospheric concentration of persistent organic pollutants (and of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons, PAHs, in particular) is closely related to climate change and climatic …

Are the Pyrenees a barrier for the transport of birch (Betula) pollen from Central Europe to the Iberian Peninsula?

R Izquierdo, M Alarcón, J Mazón, D Pino… - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
This work provides a first assessment of the possible barrier effect of the Pyrenees on the
atmospheric transport of airborne pollen from Europe to the North of the Iberian Peninsula …