A station of the dry deposition measurement network across the Mediterranean (X Med-Dry) is operating in Lecce (40.2 °N, 18.6 °E; 40 m above sea level and 15 m above street level).
Since April 2017 a set of seven new dry deposition-only collectors were installed at different locations across the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: Huelva, Barcelona (Spain); Île-Rousse (France); San Lawrentz (Malta); Lecce (Italy); Athens (Greece); Nicosia (Cyprus).
One year dry deposition simultaneous data in all the stations are available.
Since May 2018, San Lawrentz (Malta), Lecce (Italy) and Nicosia (Cyprus) sites have been continuing the dry depositions collection for a long term monitoring. On November 2018 a new site (Alicante, Spain) was added in the network.
Sampling details:
Sampling is performing on a 3-times-per-week schedule continuously during the year, except for Christmas and summer vacations. Particles deposit on a 25 mm pure carbon adhesive protected from wet deposition by a shelter and an active closing mechanism during rain. The carbon adhesive is subject to electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray analysis to obtain size, shape and elemental composition of single particles. Several hundred to several thousand particles are analyzed for each sample.
