Spanish National Research Council, Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies, Atmospheric Pollution
CSIC-IDAEA participa como “Observational Platform” en la componente Aerosol In-situ (CAIS en inglés), con estaciones en Barcelona y Montseny.
The Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, is Spain’s National Research Council. The Group of Environmental Geochemistry and Atmospheric Research (EGAR) belongs to the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Studies (IDÆA). The EGAR group performs research in the sectors of air quality, aerosols and climate, exposure, industrial emission, and waste. EGAR’s research on Air Quality aims at understanding the chemical and physical processes responsible for the emission, transport, fate, and removal of atmospheric pollutants with an impact on human health and vegetation.
The EGAR group is specialized in air quality assessment and monitoring, using state of the art air pollutant instrumentation combined with innovative monitoring strategies based on sensor networks. The team has strong expertise in source apportionment to aid in the identification of major sources impacting air quality degradation, which in turn supports the implementation of mitigation strategies. The group published more than 500 publications on air quality The research team provides external expert support to Spanish environmental authorities and participates in the workgroup on particulate matter of the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) program of the DG Environment for the evaluation of the EU air quality directives.
Significant Infrastructures
The Monitoring network of the EGAR- from IDAEA-CSIC consists of a cluster of three observational platforms for atmosprehic aerosols: Montseny (MSY, Regional background, 720 m a.s.l.), Montsec (MSA, mountain site, 1590 m a.s.l.) and Barcelona–Palau Reial (Urban background). It is a well-equipped infrastructure for in-situ characterization of aerosols (optical, physical, and chemical offline and online) and trace gases (NOx, SO2, O3, CO). The sites are providing data in near real time (NRT) and are participating in the CAMS21a for testing new NRT protocols. Access to the network permits to investigate different environments, connecting Air Quality and Climate Research.
The three sites are complete cutting-edge supersites integrated in AQMN, measuring high number of variables and pollutants. Equipment at each of the sites (unless specified): Aerosols ground measurements: Absorption measurements: 4 MAAP and 5 Aethalometer AE33; Scattering: 3 Nephelometer AURORA 3000; Particle Number: 10 CPC; Particle Number Size Distribution: 5 SMPS; PMx: 5optical particle counters; Offline chemical composition of PM10, PM2.5, and PM1 (only PM10 at MSA), including ions, OC and EC, major and trace elements with 24h time resolution; Online non-refractory PM1 chemical composition: Q-ACSM at BCN and ToF-ACSM at MSY (since 2019); Online EC and OC at BCN: thermal-optical method. Gases: NOx, O3, SO2 and CO measured by Catalan Government, Online measurement of VOCs: PTRMS at MSY and ToF PTRMS at BCN. Meteorological measurements: Laboratory for chemical analysis of atmospheric particles, including Laboratory of filter samples treatment, ICP-MS and ICP-AES lab for determination of major and trace elements in filters, Ion chromatography, Thermal-optical analysis of OC and EC. Vertical measurements: Ceilometer Luft CHM-15K at MSY and MSA, Lidar measurements (from UPC) at BCN, AOD (aerosol optical depth) by CIMEL.
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Responsible
Andrés Alastuey