TY - GEN
T1 - Decadal analysis of heat-wave events in Thessaloniki and investigation of impacts on PM10
AU - Pakalidou, N.
AU - Katragkou, E.
AU - Poypkou, A.
AU - Zanis, P.
AU - Karacostas, T.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The aim of this paper is to analyze the heat wave events during the decade 2001-2010 over Thessaloniki and the determination of their basic characteristics. Since extreme weather events are accompanied by serious pollution episodes, the potential linkages of heat wave events with high particulate matter (PM10) concentrations are investigated. In order to describe the heat wave events we use the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) and we classify accordingly the days fulfilling the heatwave criteria. PM10 measurements at two monitoring stations in Thessaloniki are used in order to investigate their potential linkage to the extreme meteorological events. In the urban background station of Panorama the distribution of PM10 is shifted to higher size bins and the mean of the distribution increases by 6 μg/m3 during the heatwave days. At the urban station of Agia So-fia, the impact of heatwave on PM10 pollution on the PM10 distribution is weaker, due to masking effects of the local (traffic) emission sources.
AB - The aim of this paper is to analyze the heat wave events during the decade 2001-2010 over Thessaloniki and the determination of their basic characteristics. Since extreme weather events are accompanied by serious pollution episodes, the potential linkages of heat wave events with high particulate matter (PM10) concentrations are investigated. In order to describe the heat wave events we use the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) and we classify accordingly the days fulfilling the heatwave criteria. PM10 measurements at two monitoring stations in Thessaloniki are used in order to investigate their potential linkage to the extreme meteorological events. In the urban background station of Panorama the distribution of PM10 is shifted to higher size bins and the mean of the distribution increases by 6 μg/m3 during the heatwave days. At the urban station of Agia So-fia, the impact of heatwave on PM10 pollution on the PM10 distribution is weaker, due to masking effects of the local (traffic) emission sources.
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-29172-2\#section=1105083\&page=1\&locus=0
BT - http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-29172-2\#section=1105083\&page=1\&locus=0
CY - Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 839pp. ISBN 978-3-642-29172-5, ISBN 978-3-642-29172-2 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29172-2.
T2 - Greece – Athens: 11ο International Convention of Meteorology, Climatology and Physics of Atmosphere (11o COMECAP)
Y2 - 1 January 1824
ER -