North African dust transport toward the western Mediterranean basin: atmospheric controls on dust source activation and transport pathways during June–July 2013

Schepanski, Kerstin; Mallet, Marc; Heinold, Bernd; Ulrich, Max

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-14147-2016

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15 Nov 2016

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North African dust transport toward the western Mediterranean basin: atmospheric controls on dust source activation and transport pathways during June–July 2013

Kerstin Schepanski, Marc Mallet, Bernd Heinold, and Max Ulrich

Data sets

DSAF DataSite https://doi.org/10.14759/41916.2016.1

AERONET AODs NASA http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov

MODIS and MERRA data Giovanni http://giovanni.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni

ERA-Interim data ECMWF http://www.ecmwf.int

Short summary

EOF analysis is used to link the north African atmospheric dust cycle, particularly active dust source regions, dust emission fluxes, dust transport pathways towards the Mediterranean Sea and Europe as well as dust deposition rates with atmospheric circulation regimes, such as position and strength of the subtropical ridge and the Saharan heat low.