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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4967-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4967-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
21 Apr 2016
Research article |
| 21 Apr 2016
Forecasting the northern African dust outbreak towards Europe in April 2011: a model intercomparison
N. Huneeus
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL,
CNRS/UPMC, Paris, France
Department of Geophysics and Center for Climate and
Resilience Research, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
S. Basart
Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing
Center, BSC-CNS, Barcelona, Spain
S. Fiedler
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds,
Leeds, UK
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg,
Germany
J.-J. Morcrette
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,
Reading, UK
A. Benedetti
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,
Reading, UK
J. Mulcahy
Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB,
UK
E. Terradellas
Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET), Barcelona,
Spain
C. Pérez García-Pando
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York,
USA
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia
University, New York, USA
G. Pejanovic
National Hydrometeorological Service, Belgrade,
Serbia
S. Nickovic
National Hydrometeorological Service, Belgrade,
Serbia
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research,
Spanish Research Council, Barcelona, Spain
P. Arsenovic
National Hydrometeorological Service, Belgrade,
Serbia
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH,
Zürich, Switzerland
M. Schulz
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo,
Norway
E. Cuevas
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, State
Meteorological Agency of Spain (AEMET), Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Spain
J. M. Baldasano
Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing
Center, BSC-CNS, Barcelona, Spain
Environmental Modelling Laboratory, Technical University
of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
J. Pey
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research,
Spanish Research Council, Barcelona, Spain
Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Zaragoza,
Spain
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,
Reading, UK
now at: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique,
IPSL, CNRS/UPMC, Paris, France
B. Cvetkovic
National Hydrometeorological Service, Belgrade,
Serbia
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Short summary
Five dust models are evaluated regarding their performance in predicting an intense Saharan dust outbreak affecting western and northern Europe (NE). Models predict the onset and evolution of the event for all analysed lead times. On average, differences among the models are larger than differences in lead times for each model. The models tend to underestimate the long-range transport towards NE. This is partly due to difficulties in simulating the vertical dust distribution and horizontal wind.
Five dust models are evaluated regarding their performance in predicting an intense Saharan dust...
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