Published April 19, 2021 | Version 1
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Towards understanding the characteristics of new particle formation in the Eastern Mediterranean

Authors/Creators

  • 1. University of Helsinki
  • 2. The Cyprus Institute
  • 3. The Cyprus Institure
  • 4. Department of Labour Inspection in Cyprus

Contributors

Contact person:

  • 1. University of Helsinki

Description

Dataset abstract

The authors highly appreciate being contacted if the data is to be used for any purpose.

The following data set was used in the study entitled "Towards understanding the characteristics of new particle formation in the Eastern Mediterranean" and published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Journal. This study explored new particle formation in Eastern Mediterranean based on one year of measurements of particle number concentrations starting from ~1nm in addition to complementary meteorological and gas measurements. 

This dataset was measured/calculated based on measurements at the Cyprus Atmospheric Observatory - Agia Marina Xyliatou (CAO-AMX) station (https://cao.cyi.ac.cy/agia-marina-xyliatou/). CAO-AMX is one of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C) research infrastructure stations. 

Please refer to the manuscript and its supplementary material for more information about how the data was collected and curated. 

Dataset contents:

The dataset is arranged in tables having .txt format  It contains: 

  • hourly meteorological data,
  • hourly air quality data,
  • hourly size-binned particle number concentrations, 
  • hourly particle formation rates,
  • hourly condensation sinks,
  • daily particle growth rates,
  • daily NPF classification,
  • daily sector analysis at 6:00 am UTC

The meteorological data and the gas data were provided by the Department of Labour Inspection (DLI) of the Ministry of Labour, Welfare, and Social Insurance of Cyprus. 

Dataset license

The dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Additional details

Related works

Is cited by
Journal article: 10.5194/acp-2020-1066 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
ATM-GTP - Atmospheric Gas-to-Particle conversion 742206
European Commission
EMME-CARE - Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East – Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre 856612
Research Council of Finland
Air quality - climate interactions and feedbacks 302958
Research Council of Finland
Centre of Excellence in Atmospheric Science From Molecular and Biolocigal processes to The Global Climate 307331