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A new paper entitled “African dust source regions for observed dust outbreaks over the Subtropical Eastern North Atlantic region, above 25ºN”, by Alonso-Pérez et al., has been recently published in Journal of Arid Environments. In this study, high mineral dust-laden air mass potential source regions affecting the Marine Boundary Layer (MBL) of the Subtropical Eastern North Atlantic Region above 25ºN (SENAR), directly or by means of gravitational settlemet, were objectively identified. We introduced a new hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian More...

  The paper entitled “Shortwave radiative forcing and efficiency of key aerosol types using AERONET data”, by García et al., has been recently published in the journal “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions”.According to the last report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007), the effects of atmospheric aerosols on the Earth-atmosphere system still have high uncertainties. Improving our knowledge about the direct radiative effects of atmospheric aerosols is a necessary step in order to address their indirect More...

Dr. Rosa García-Cabrera (UVA-AEMET) with her supervisors, Dr. Victoria Cachorro (UVA) and Dr. Emilio Cuevas (AEMET)   Dr. Rosa Delia García Cabrera defended her PhD Thesis entitled “RADIATIVE MODEL APPLICATION FOR THE OPERATIVE CONTROL OF THE BSRN (Baseline Surface Radiation Network) PROGRAM AT THE IZAÑA ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH CENTER”  on December 16 at the University of Valladolid, earning the top rating of "Cum Laude" .This thesis has been supervised by Dr. Victoria Eugenia Cachorro Revilla, from the Applied Physics Department More...

  Dr. África Barreto-Velasco defended her PhD Thesis entitled “DETERMINATION OF EARTH’S SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND EMISIVITY IN THE CANARY ISLANDS USING THERMAL-INFRARED RADIOMETRY” ON December 12 at the University of La Laguna, earning the top rating of "Cum Laude" .This thesis has been supervised by Dr. Manuel Perez Arbelo from the Department of Fundamental Physics, Electronics and Systems, at the Physical Sciences Faculty (ULL) as part of the PhD program in Physics and Computer Science. Dr. Barreto now works at the Izaña More...

      The journal Atmospheric Research publishes (issue 102) a new study on the radiative properties of atmospheric aerosols in the free troposphere based on measurements performed in 10 mountain top observatories placed around the globe. The study was performed by 13 institutions, including the Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre. The study is based on data collected at mountaintop observatories placed in the 20–50ºN latitude band: Mauna Loa (Hawaii, USA); Lulin Mountain (Taiwan); Nepal Climate Observatory—Pyramid More...

  The World Meteorological Organization, through its Global Atmosphere Watch program, has published the seventh edition of the greenhouse gases annual bulletin about the measured increments of such gases in the atmosphere. The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, and some halogenated gases continue growing. In this edition, the bulletin cover is dedicated to nitrous oxide, which is the third most important gas in the greenhouse effect increase. The Izaña Atmospheric Research Center More...