• 50.127°N 14.385°E 277 m a.s.l.

Observational platform

Czechia

• Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals (ÚCHP AV ČR)

https://www.icpf.cas.cz/en/

• Jakub Ondráček
  Facility PI

Suchdol site is located in the northwest border of Prague. The sampling container is positioned on the premises of The Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, v.v.i. (ICPF) of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS). This site, located on the edge of a plateau above Prague (ca. 1.2 million inhabitants) is officially classified as an urban background site with light-dense residential heating and no factory presence. As a suburban site it is approximately 8 km far from city centre that is located on the bottom of Prague's valley 195 m a.s.l.

Suchdol site is having long-term data measurement record of aerosol number size distribution, originally aimed at monitoring the pollution levels coming from Prague city. Broadening the scope of aerosol in-situ variables within ACTRIS with measurements of optical properties and online OC/EC measurement allows for thorough characterization of microphysical aerosol properties in a suburban area of capital city. Furthermore, the research topics related to the station are also detailed chemical characterization, aerosol transformation and determination of the aerosol origin using advanced source apportionment techniques (PMF).

• Kubelová et al. (2015). A study of summer and winter highly time-resolved submicron aerosol composition measured at a suburban site in Prague. Atmospheric Environment, 118, 45-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.07.030
• Schwarz et al. (2008). Elemental and organic carbon in atmospheric aerosols at downtown and suburban sites in Prague. Atmospheric Research, 90(2-4), 287-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.05.006
• Smolík et al. (2007). Characterization of Indoor and Outdoor Aerosols in a Suburban Area of Prague. Water Air Soil Pollut: Focus, 8(1), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11267-007-9141-y
• Štefancová et al. (2010). Hygroscopic growth of atmospheric aerosol sampled in Prague 2008 using humidity controlled inlets. Atmospheric Research, 98(2-4), 237-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.04.009
• Ondráček et al. (2011). Contribution of the road traffic to air pollution in the Prague city (busy speedway and suburban crossroads). Atmospheric Environment, 45(29), 5090-5100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.036
• Řimnáčová et al. (2011). Atmospheric aerosols in suburb of Prague: The dynamics of particle size distributions. Atmospheric Research, 101(3), 539-552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.10.024
• Borsós et al. (2012). Comparison of particulate number concentrations in three Central European capital cities. Science of The Total Environment, 433, 418-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.052
• Schwarz et al. (2012). Mass and chemically speciated size distribution of Prague aerosol using an aerosol dryer — The influence of air mass origin. Science of The Total Environment, 437, 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.050
• Vodička et al. (2013). Analysis of one year's OC/EC data at a Prague suburban site with 2-h time resolution. Atmospheric Environment, 77, 865-872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.06.013
• Mann et al. (2014). Intercomparison and evaluation of global aerosol microphysical properties among AeroCom models of a range of complexity. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14(9), 4679-4713. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4679-2014
• Vodička et al. (2015). Detailed comparison of OC/EC aerosol at an urban and a rural Czech background site during summer and winter. Science of The Total Environment, 518-519, 424-433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.029
• Fonseca et al. (2016). Intercomparison of four different cascade impactors for fine and ultrafine particle sampling in two European locations. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2015-1016
• Kozáková et al. (2017). The Association between Intermodal (PM1-2.5) and PM1, PM2.5, Coarse Fraction and Meteorological Parameters in Various Environments in Central Europe. Aerosol Air Qual. Res., 17(5), 1234-1243. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2016.06.0242
• Talbot et al. (2016). Outdoor and indoor aerosol size, number, mass and compositional dynamics at an urban background site during warm season. Atmospheric Environment, 131, 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.01.055
• Talbot et al. (2017). Transformations of Aerosol Particles from an Outdoor to Indoor Environment. Aerosol Air Qual. Res., 17(3), 653-665. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2016.08.0355
• Kozákovác et al. (2018). Chemical Characterization of PM1-2.5 and its Associations with PM1, PM2.5-10 and Meteorology in Urban and Suburban Environments. Aerosol Air Qual. Res., 18(7), 1684-1697. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2017.11.0479
• Németh et al. (2018). Comparison of atmospheric new particle formation events in three Central European cities. Atmospheric Environment, 178, 191-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.01.035
• Schwarz et al. (2019). Assessment of air pollution origin based on year-long parallel measurement of PM2.5 and PM10 at two suburban sites in Prague, Czech Republic. Science of The Total Environment, 664, 1107-1116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.426
• Holubová Šmejkalová et al. (2020). Atmospheric aerosol growth rates at different background station types. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 28(11), 13352-13364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11424-5
• Laj et al. (2020). A global analysis of climate-relevant aerosol properties retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13(8), 4353-4392. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4353-2020
• Bressi et al. (2021). A European aerosol phenomenology - 7: High-time resolution chemical characteristics of submicron particulate matter across Europe. Atmospheric Environment: X, 10, 100108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeaoa.2021.100108
• Rose et al. (2021). Seasonality of the particle number concentration and size distribution: a global analysis retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21(22), 17185-17223. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17185-2021
• Makeš et al. (2021). Determination of PM1 Sources at a Prague Background Site during the 2012–2013 Period Using PMF Analysis of Combined Aerosol Mass Spectra. Atmosphere, 13(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13010020
• Vodička et al. (2022). Seasonal changes in stable carbon isotopic composition in the bulk aerosol and gas phases at a suburban site in Prague. Science of The Total Environment, 803, 149767. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149767
• Vodička et al. (2023). Anthropogenic and biogenic tracers in fine aerosol based on seasonal distributions of dicarboxylic acids, sugars and related compounds at a rural background site in Central Europe. Atmospheric Environment, 299, 119619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119619