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THE CONTRIBUTION OF ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION AND AIR TRAJECTORY VARIABILITY TO THE CHANGING PATTERN OF ACIDIC DEPOSITION IN EUROPE

Objetivo

TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF CHANGING ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS TO THE VARIABILITY OF ACIDIC DEPOSITION ON YEARLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, DECADAL TIMESCALES.

THE RESEARCH PROJECT INCLUDES:

- COLLECTION AND COLLATION OF CHEMISTRY DATA (EMEP, OECD, EACN ETC). CO-OPERATION AND COLLABORATION HAS ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED WITH ALL RELEVANT PARTIES. IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO UNDERTAKE SOME QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPOSITION DATA. ACIDIC SPECIES DATA WILL BE ANALYSED AND SUMMARISED BY TECHNIQUES UNDER DEVELOPMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY. THESE TECHNIQUES ALLOW THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROPORTIONAL IONIC COMPOSITION AND TRAJECTORY LENGTH TO BE ELUCIDATED. BASIC DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS WILL BE DERIVED, SUCH AS THE FREQUENCY OF "CONCENTRATION" AND "DEPOSITION" EPISODES.

- TRAJECTORY AND WEATHER-TYPE ANALYSIS ON AN "EVENT" BASIS FOR THE PERIOD OF "DAILY" CHEMICAL DATA. A NUMBER OF RECEPTOR SITES WILL BE CHOSEN ON THE BASIS OF "REPRESENTATIVENESS". IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO DEVISE NEW "WEATHER TYPE" INDICIES. OTHER PERTINENT FACTORS, SUCH AS FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS OF PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION TYPE, AND STABLE ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS, WILL BE CONSIDERED.

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Régimen de financiación

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Coordinador

University of East Anglia
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Dirección
University Plain
NR4 7TJ Norwich
Reino Unido

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