Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis
The MILAGRO field campaign was a multi-agency international collaborative project to evaluate the regional impacts of the Mexico City air pollution plume as a means of understanding urban impacts on the global climate. Mexico City lies on an elevated plateau with mountains on three sides and has com...
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| author | B. de Foy J. D. Fast S. J. Paech D. Phillips J. T. Walters R. L. Coulter T. J. Martin M. S. Pekour W. J. Shaw P. P. Kastendeuch N. A. Marley A. Retama L. T. Molina |
| author_facet | B. de Foy J. D. Fast S. J. Paech D. Phillips J. T. Walters R. L. Coulter T. J. Martin M. S. Pekour W. J. Shaw P. P. Kastendeuch N. A. Marley A. Retama L. T. Molina |
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| description | The MILAGRO field campaign was a multi-agency international collaborative project to evaluate the regional impacts of the Mexico City air pollution plume as a means of understanding urban impacts on the global climate. Mexico City lies on an elevated plateau with mountains on three sides and has complex mountain and surface-driven wind flows. This paper asks what the wind transport was in the basin during the field campaign and how representative it was of the climatology. Surface meteorology and air quality data, radiosondes and radar wind profiler data were collected at sites in the basin and its vicinity. Cluster analysis was used to identify the dominant wind patterns both during the campaign and within the past 10 years of operational data from the warm dry season. Our analysis shows that March 2006 was representative of typical flow patterns experienced in the basin. Six episode types were identified for the basin-scale circulation providing a way of interpreting atmospheric chemistry and particulate data collected during the campaign. Decoupling between surface winds and those aloft had a strong influence in leading to convection and poor air quality episodes. Hourly characterisation of wind circulation during the MILAGRO, MCMA-2003 and IMADA field campaigns enables the comparisons of similar air pollution episodes and the evaluation of the impact of wind transport on measurements of the atmospheric chemistry taking place in the basin. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-231886caf3064cdb857eec7a0503388a2022-12-22T02:48:28ZengCopernicus PublicationsAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics1680-73161680-73242008-03-018512091224Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysisB. de FoyJ. D. FastS. J. PaechD. PhillipsJ. T. WaltersR. L. CoulterT. J. MartinM. S. PekourW. J. ShawP. P. KastendeuchN. A. MarleyA. RetamaL. T. MolinaThe MILAGRO field campaign was a multi-agency international collaborative project to evaluate the regional impacts of the Mexico City air pollution plume as a means of understanding urban impacts on the global climate. Mexico City lies on an elevated plateau with mountains on three sides and has complex mountain and surface-driven wind flows. This paper asks what the wind transport was in the basin during the field campaign and how representative it was of the climatology. Surface meteorology and air quality data, radiosondes and radar wind profiler data were collected at sites in the basin and its vicinity. Cluster analysis was used to identify the dominant wind patterns both during the campaign and within the past 10 years of operational data from the warm dry season. Our analysis shows that March 2006 was representative of typical flow patterns experienced in the basin. Six episode types were identified for the basin-scale circulation providing a way of interpreting atmospheric chemistry and particulate data collected during the campaign. Decoupling between surface winds and those aloft had a strong influence in leading to convection and poor air quality episodes. Hourly characterisation of wind circulation during the MILAGRO, MCMA-2003 and IMADA field campaigns enables the comparisons of similar air pollution episodes and the evaluation of the impact of wind transport on measurements of the atmospheric chemistry taking place in the basin.http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/1209/2008/acp-8-1209-2008.pdf |
| spellingShingle | B. de Foy J. D. Fast S. J. Paech D. Phillips J. T. Walters R. L. Coulter T. J. Martin M. S. Pekour W. J. Shaw P. P. Kastendeuch N. A. Marley A. Retama L. T. Molina Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
| title | Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis |
| title_full | Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis |
| title_fullStr | Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis |
| title_short | Basin-scale wind transport during the MILAGRO field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis |
| title_sort | basin scale wind transport during the milagro field campaign and comparison to climatology using cluster analysis |
| url | http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/1209/2008/acp-8-1209-2008.pdf |
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