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Anthropic-Induced Variability of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols at the WMO/GAW Coastal Site of Lamezia Terme (Calabria, Southern Italy): Towards a New Method to Assess the Weekly Distribution of Gathered Data

Francesco D’Amico
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Ivano Ammoscato
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Daniel Gullì
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Elenio Avolio
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Teresa Lo Feudo
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Mariafrancesca De Pino
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Paolo Cristofanelli
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Luana Malacaria
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Domenico Parise
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Salvatore Sinopoli
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Giorgia De Benedetto
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Claudia Roberta Calidonna
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Version 1 : Received: 10 September 2024 / Approved: 11 September 2024 / Online: 12 September 2024 (10:53:51 CEST)

How to cite: D’Amico, F.; Ammoscato, I.; Gullì, D.; Avolio, E.; Lo Feudo, T.; De Pino, M.; Cristofanelli, P.; Malacaria, L.; Parise, D.; Sinopoli, S.; De Benedetto, G.; Calidonna, C. R. Anthropic-Induced Variability of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols at the WMO/GAW Coastal Site of Lamezia Terme (Calabria, Southern Italy): Towards a New Method to Assess the Weekly Distribution of Gathered Data. Preprints 2024, 2024090884. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0884.v1 D’Amico, F.; Ammoscato, I.; Gullì, D.; Avolio, E.; Lo Feudo, T.; De Pino, M.; Cristofanelli, P.; Malacaria, L.; Parise, D.; Sinopoli, S.; De Benedetto, G.; Calidonna, C. R. Anthropic-Induced Variability of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols at the WMO/GAW Coastal Site of Lamezia Terme (Calabria, Southern Italy): Towards a New Method to Assess the Weekly Distribution of Gathered Data. Preprints 2024, 2024090884. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0884.v1

Abstract

The key towards a sustainable future is the reduction of mankind’s impact on natural systems via the development of new technologies and the improvement of source apportionment. Though days, years and seasons are arbitrarily set, their mechanisms are based on natural cycles driven by Earth’s orbital periods. This is not the case for weeks, which are a pure anthropic category and are known from literature to influence emission cycles. For the first time since it started data gathering operations, CO (carbon monoxide), CO2 (carbon dioxide), CH4 (methane) and eBC (equivalent black carbon) values detected by the Lamezia Terme WMO/GAW station in Calabria, Southern Italy have been evaluated via a two-pronged approach accounting for weekly variations in absolute concentrations, as well as the number of hourly averages exceeding select thresholds. The analyses were performed on seven continuous years of measurements, from 2016 to 2022. Moreso, the two results have been combined into a new parameter: the hereby defined WDWO (Weighed Distribution of Weekly Outbreaks) normalizes weekly trends of CO, CO2, CH4 and eBC on an absolute scale as percentages, with the scope of providing regulators and researchers alike with a new tool meant to better evaluate anthropogenic pollution and mitigate its effects.

Keywords

Lamezia Terme; GAW; sustainability; weekly cycles; anthropic activity; carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide; methane; black carbon

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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