Is wind direction an adequate marker of air mass history? This review looks at the evolution
of methods for assessing the effect of the origin and pathway of air masses on composition …

Biomass burning, the largest global source of elemental carbon (EC) and primary organic
carbon (OC), is strongly associated with many subjects of great scientific concern, such as …

An eight-year long reanalysis of atmospheric composition data covering the period 2003–
2010 was constructed as part of the FP7-funded Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and …

Investigation of coupling mechanisms between the troposphere and the ionosphere requires
a multidisciplinary approach involving several branches of atmospheric sciences, from …

The CALIOP (Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) layer product is used for a
multimodel evaluation of the vertical distribution of aerosols. Annual and seasonal aerosol …

Abstract The Gulf of Guinea represents a wide tract of the African coast with complex and
rich coastal ecosystems undergoing various pressures. The seasonal variations of …

Atmospheric deposition contributes potentially significant amounts of the nutrients iron,
nitrogen, and phosphorus (via mineral dust and anthropogenic aerosols) to the oligotrophic …

This study quantifies black carbon (BC) processes in three global climate models and one
chemistry transport model, with focus on the seasonality of BC transport, emissions, wet and …

During June, July and August 2006 five aircraft took part in a campaign over West Africa to
observe the aerosol content and chemical composition of the troposphere and lower …

In the framework of the Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions in West Africa
(DACCIWA) project, the tropospheric chemical composition in large cities along the Gulf of …