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To test applicability of the present approach in detecting mud rains when the
visual inspection of samples is omitted, further research of the longer time period
is necessary.
Acknowledgments
Our work was supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and
Sport (grants No. 004-1193086-3036, No. 037-1193086-2771 and No. 119-1193086-1323) and
EMEP4HR project number 175183/S30 provided by the Research Council of Norway. We thank
the NASA/GSFC/TOMS group for the use of aerosol index data.
Fig. 1.
(a) TOMS map of AI for 12 April 2002. Strong Saharan plume over Mediterranean
towards Croatia is indicated by a white square. (b) Distribution of AI over Croatia. Small black
crosses represent horizontal resolution of AI data. (c) and (d) Backwards trajectories for Site 1
and 2, respectively. Trajectories are calculated four times per day at: 00 (+), 06 (Δ), 12 (°), and
18 h (■) UTC
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