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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 575, 2024
Second Central Asian DUst Conference (CADUC-2 2024)
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Article Number | 02002 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Dust properties at transport | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202457502002 | |
Published online | 11 October 2024 |
Classification of atmospheric particles over the Urmia Lake: Two case studies
1 Department of Physics and Research Center for Climate Change and Global Warming, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 4513766731, Iran
2 Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
* e-mail: salizadeh@iasbs.ac.ir
** e-mail: r.moradhaseli.iauz@gmail.com
*** e-mail: khalesi@iasbs.ac.ir
In this study, we examined the aerosols in the Urmia Lake atmosphere, using a polarization lidar, looking for traces of salt particles. Urmia Lake is a hypersaline lake and most part of it now is dry. We have applied the two-step POLIPHON method to classify particles in three categories, i.e., dust, non-dust, and salt-dust/polluted dust. In the vicinity of the lake’s bed, salt-dust particles (mixture of dust and salt) exhibit lower particle depolarization ratios (PDRs) compared with pure dust; However, their PDRs are higher than urban pollution or other anthropogenic particles. Two case studies are presented here. These cases represent particles originating from both local and trans-regional sources. Particles transported from Africa and the Tigris-Euphrates basin mainly show higher PDR values (> 0.2), indicating the presence of dust as the dominant aerosol type. However, the PDR of particles that originated from the lake’s bed is close to that of the polluted dust. Since the measurements were conducted very close to the source, we called such particles that are rising from the lake bed as salt-dust. In both cases, the concentration of these particles is considerably enhanced at altitudes below 2 km AGL with respect to higher ranges.
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