title: A new method for determining the sources of airborne particles.
abstract: Air quality is a major issue for humans owing to the fact that the content of particles in the atmosphere has multiple implications for life quality, ecosystem dynamics and environment. Scientists are therefore particularly interested in discovering the origin of airborne particles. A new method has been developed to model the relationship between the emission surface and the total amount of airborne particles at a given distance, employing olive pollen and olive groves as examples. A third-degree polynomial relationship between the air particles at a particular point and the distance from the source was observed, signifying that the nearest area to a point is not that which is most correlated with its air features. This work allows the origin of airborne particles to be discovered and could be implemented in different disciplines related to atmospheric aerosol, thus providing a new approach with which to discover the dynamics of airborne particles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Córdoba, Spain; Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technische Universität München, Germany. Electronic address: oterosjose@gmail.com.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oteros
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: García-Mozo
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alcázar
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belmonte
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacists of Zaragoza, Spain.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bermejo
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology-Botany, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boi
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cariñanos
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Díaz de la Guardia
authors.affiliation: Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management (Botany), University of León, Spain; Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Italian National Research Country, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fernández-González
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: González-Minero
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology II, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez-Bustillo
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moreno-Grau
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez-Badía
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology and Soil Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Rajo
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Jaén, Spain.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ruíz-Valenzuela
authors.affiliation: Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, University of Oviedo, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Suárez-Pérez
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Malaga, Spain.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Trigo
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Vilches
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Galán
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D001272:Atmosphere / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D031658:Olea; D011058:Pollen; D013030:Spain; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
keywords: Airborne particles; Dispersion; Environment; Environmental monitoring; Geostatistic; Pollen