%0 Journal Article
%T Aerosol Optical Depth Pathways and Sources; Lake Victoria Basin*
%A Misiani Zachary
%A Lun Yin
%A Mwai Zacharia
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 5
%N 3
%P 1-11
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2018
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1104393
%X
The air mass back-trajectory clustering analysis was
combined with Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) of fine mode, coarse mode and fine
mode fraction in order to evaluate the long-range effects of transportation
patterns of trajectories for the ground based station at ICIPE Mbita which is
located on longitude and latitude of 34.2¡ãE, 0.417¡ãS respectively at 1125
meters above sea level. In order to get a clear picture of the source and
sinking points of aerosols, monthly means of a 72 hour backward trajectories
data ranging from 2013 to 2015 were used in categorizing the cluster into five
classes. Most of the air trajectories
analysis from this paper shows evidence that the major sources and pathways for
the aerosols into the receptor station commonly originate from as far as the
Arabian deserts and Sahara deserts from the Northern Hemisphere and Indian
Ocean and central Africa in the Southern Hemisphere.
%K Aerosols
%K Cluster Analysis
%K MAM
%K JJA
%K Trajectories
%K ICIPE Mbita and AERONET
%K LBR
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5293144