Saharan dust
Characterization of long-range transported Saharan dust at the Caribbean by dual-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar measurements
... of Saharan dust observations during SAMUM-1 in Morocco close to the source regions (Freudenthaler et ...ported Saharan dust during SAMUM-2 at Cape Verde (Groß et ...ported Saharan ...
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Coccolithophore fluxes in the open tropical North Atlantic: influence of thermocline depth, Amazon water, and Saharan dust
... of dust nutrients in the surface ...of Saharan dust continuously blown into and over the Atlantic Ocean ...dry dust deposition (see Ridame et ...
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Optical-microphysical properties of Saharan dust aerosols and composition relationship using a multi-wavelength Raman lidar, in situ sensors and modelling: a case study analysis
... of 1.53–1.55 (real part), while the imaginary part was ranging from 0.009i to 0.015i. These values represent column values which are obtained during the Saharan dust event several hours before the lidar ...
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Profiling of fine and coarse particle mass: case studies of Saharan dust and Eyjafjallajökull/Grimsvötn volcanic plumes
... (a) Saharan dust outbreak to Central Europe, (b) Saharan dust plume mixed with biomass-burning smoke over Cape Verde, and volcanic aerosol layers originating from (c) the Eyjafjallaj ¨okull ...
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Extreme Saharan dust event over the southern Iberian Peninsula in september 2007: active and passive remote sensing from surface and satellite
... Figures 8 and 9 present the aerosol backscatter coefficient and backscatter-related Angstr¨om exponent (which describe the spectral dependence of the backscatter coefficient) pro- files from 3–7 September at noon. These ...
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The vertical distribution of aerosols, Saharan dust and cirrus clouds in Rome (Italy) in the year 2001
... of dust events (3– 4 km) were ...of Saharan dust with other aerosols, still characterized by a strong depolarization signature ...of Saharan dust in the air masses catalogued as SD in ...
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Measurements of Saharan dust aerosols over the Eastern Mediterranean using elastic backscatter-Raman lidar, spectrophotometric and satellite observations in the frame of the EARLINET project
... ran dust aerosols over the ...typical dust outbreak on August 2000, by two lidar systems located in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece, in the frame of the European EARLINET ...haran dust in the case ...
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Saharan dust levels in Greece and received inhalation doses
... from Saharan dust to the residents of the Greek urban areas, the daily mass deposition rates in the lung (TB and AI regions) were calculated for the differ- ent exposure conditions throughout a year ...vere ...
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Observations and model calculations of trace gas scavenging in a dense Saharan dust plume during MINATROC
... Tang, Y., Carmichael, G. R., Kurata, G., Uno, I., Weber, R. J., Song, C. H., Guttikunda, S. K., Woo, J. H., Streets, D. G., Wei, C., Clarke, A. D., Huebert, B., and Anderson, T. L.: Impacts of dust on regional ...
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Complex refractive indices of Saharan dust samples at visible and near UV wavelengths: a laboratory study
... When comparing our retrieved k data sets with previous literature results, it should be kept in mind that our data represent effective values for entire dust particle pop- ulations that were obtained by ...
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The link between marine sediment records and changes in Holocene Saharan landscape: simulating the dust cycle
... the dust cycle using general cir- culation models (GCMs) cover the mid-Holocene ...global dust cycle for several time slices including pre-industrial and mid-Holocene with a focus on Antarctica using the ...
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Aerosol classification from airborne HSRL and comparisons with the CALIPSO vertical feature mask
... of dust from other sources (such as wind-blown road dust) occur in this category and are likewise assumed to be a mixture, but published measurements of such cases do not exclude the possibility of other ...
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Use of the CALIOP vertical feature mask for evaluating global aerosol models
... magnitude and vertical extent of Saharan dust transport, although below 1 km altitude CALIOP reported extinction values that were much greater than those simulated in MERRAero. This result highlighted how ...
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Dust–air pollution dynamics over the eastern Mediterranean
... desert dust and air pollution over the eastern Mediterranean (EM) have been studied, focusing on two distinct dust transport events on 22 and 28 Septem- ber ...line dust emission scheme and calcium ...
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The potential of the synergistic use of passive and active remote sensing measurements for the validation of a regional dust model
... long-lasting Saharan dust event affected Eu- rope on 18–23 May 2008. Dust was present in the free troposphere over Greece, in height ranges between the sur- face and approximately 4–5 km above sea ...
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Aerosol optical depth retrievals at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory from 1941 to 2013 by using artificial neural networks
... of Saharan dust events at IZO in the study period) and the monthly percentage of time the wind is blowing from each of the four quadrants for the period ...
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Changes in particulate matter physical properties during Saharan advections over Rome (Italy): a four-year study, 2001–2004
... As mentioned, results in this section were obtained applying the “local background method”. This was shown in Section 2.4 to be better suited than the “regional back- ground” one to our central Mediterranean region. ...
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Radiative signature of absorbing aerosol over the eastern Mediterranean basin
... polluted dust and polluted continental) occurs between ∼ 400 and ∼ 2200 m altitude range with almost similar rel- ative frequency of ...of dust loading over the ...
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Composition, size distribution, optical properties, and radiative effects of laboratory-resuspended PM<sub>10</sub> from geological dust of the Rome area, by electron microscopy and radiative transfer modelling
... mineral dust of African desert regions (Caquineau et ...lithogenic dust vary as a consequence of the mineralogical composition (Sokolik and Toon, 1999; Reid et ...lithogenic dust at the ground occur, ...
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THE VISUALIZATION METHOD OF THE 3D CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION OF ASIAN DUST IN THE GOOGLE EARTH
... sand dust particles at the estimated source region, we used the transport simulation software (Aria Technologies 2007) to compute the 3- dimensional concentration distribution of Asian ...Asian dust are ...
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