10th International Aerosol Conference September 2 - September 7, 2018 America's Center Convention Complex St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Aerosols Measurements Using an Elastic Lidar in Cubatao, Sao Paulo – Brazil
IZABEL DA S. ANDRADE, Elaine Cristina Araújo, Fernanda de M. Macedo, Renata F. da Costa, Eduardo Landulfo, Thais Correa, Maria Helena G.de A. Salani, Roberto Guardani, Maria Lucia G. Guardani, Marcia T. A. Marques, Daniel S. Lopes, IPEN
Abstract Number: 1356 Working Group: Remote/Regional Atmospheric Aerosol
Abstract Cubatao is located in state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This city was considered one of the most polluted places in the world in the late 1970s, being considerate “the valley of death” by the media. The environmental policies were not very strict, favoring industrialization in the region. Nowadays, the state of Sao Paulo has one of the biggest air quality monitoring network in Brazil and more effective environmental policies, however Cubatao still have some issues with air quality. We performed field campaigns with a scanning three-wavelength elastic LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), which is a remote sensing technique, with the objective to identify and measure the aerosols emissions in an industrial area. The obtained results demonstrate the aerosol concentration over the study area, the LIDAR technique also helps to identify places that emitted aerosols to atmosphere.