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Article dans une revue Climatologie Année : 2015

IMPACT OF A SAHARAN DUST OUTBREAK ON PM 10 GROUND LEVELS IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANCE

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Southeastern France is often subject to thermal breezes and inversions that are partly responsible for the dispersion behavior of air pollutants in this region. Generally, the coastal urban zone is the main contributor to PM 10 emissions. However, a southerly wind, commonly known as Sirocco, occasionally generates dust advections from the Sahara desert, resulting in poor air quality in the study area. This work demonstrates the quick rise of PM 10 levels on the French coastline under the influence of such a weather outbreak. Measurements were performed during a Saharan dust episode which occurred end of April 2013 and caused the tripling of PM 10 daily averages at the regional scale in about 24 hours. In Vence, located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, the highest daily average was 7 times greater during the peak than before the dust outbreak. In Venaco (Corsica) off-line chemical characterizations for filter samples show that about 50% of the PM 10 mass was composed of terrigenous dust, which confirms that they played a central role in the degradation of air quality and in the exceeding of the EU daily limit value of 50 µg/m 3 at a regional scale. Résumé : Impact d'une advection de poussières sahariennes sur les niveaux de PM 10 dans le Sud-Est de la France
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hal-01361011, version 1 (06-09-2016)

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Nicolas Michelot, Wilfried Endlicher, Pierre Carrega, Nicolas Martin, Olivier Favez, et al.. IMPACT OF A SAHARAN DUST OUTBREAK ON PM 10 GROUND LEVELS IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANCE. Climatologie, 2015. ⟨hal-01361011⟩
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