Non-sea-salt sulfate and nitrate in trade wind aerosols at Barbados: Evidence for long-range transport

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Savoie, Dennis L, Prospero, Joseph M, Saltzman, Eric S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1989
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; sulfate; nitrate; aerosol; atmosphere; particles; Fanning; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/26m70051

From mid-May 1984 through December 1987, more than 1100 daily high-volume bulk aerosol samples were collected during onshore trade winds at Barbados, West Indies. All of these have been analyzed to determine the concentrations of particulate non-sea-salt (nss) sulfate, nitrate, and Saharan dust; 91...