David Mateos
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19
Total Citations
374
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About
David Mateos is a leading atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on the characterization and long-range transport of mineral dust and biomass burning aerosols, with a particular emphasis on desert dust events. His major contributions include pioneering the identification and analysis of African dust outbreaks over the Iberian Peninsula and the Caribbean Basin, using a combination of sun-photometer data from AERONET and ground-based particulate mass measurements. His work has been instrumental in understanding how dust optical and microphysical properties evolve during transatlantic transport, as demonstrated in his highly cited studies on Saharan dust over Barbados during the SALTRACE campaign (33 citations) and over the Caribbean Basin. Mateos has also advanced aerosol remote sensing methodology, notably by developing the retrieval of aerosol properties from all-sky cameras using the GRASP code (43 citations) and by implementing daytime and nighttime aerosol optical depth algorithms in the CÆLIS software tool (32 citations). His investigations into stratospheric smoke particles over Antarctica (39 citations) highlight the global reach of his research. With over 300 total citations, Mateos’s work is essential for improving climate models and understanding aerosol impacts on radiative forcing and air quality.
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- 6Daytime and nighttime aerosol optical depth implementation in CÆLIS32 citations · 2020
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- 9Relative sky radiance from multi-exposure all-sky camera images22 citations · 2021
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