Effect of sea breeze circulation on aerosol mixing state and radiative properties in a desert setting

Derimian, Yevgeny; Choël, Marie; Rudich, Yinon; Deboudt, Karine; Dubovik, Oleg; Laskin, Alexander; Legrand, Michel; Damiri, Bahaiddin; Koren, Ilan; Unga, Florin; Moreau, Myriam; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Karnieli, Arnon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11331-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11331-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11331-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 18

Research article

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25 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 25 Sep 2017

Effect of sea breeze circulation on aerosol mixing state and radiative properties in a desert setting

Yevgeny Derimian, Marie Choël, Yinon Rudich, Karine Deboudt, Oleg Dubovik, Alexander Laskin, Michel Legrand, Bahaiddin Damiri, Ilan Koren, Florin Unga, Myriam Moreau, Meinrat O. Andreae, and Arnon Karnieli

Data sets

The air mass backward trajectories NOAA http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT_traj.php

AERONET NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

MPLNET NASA https://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov

SolRad-Net NASA http://solrad-net.gsfc.nasa.gov

The thermal infrared radiometer data LOA http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/index.php/observation/sites.html

Short summary

We present influence of daily occurrence of the sea breeze flow from the Mediterranean Sea on physicochemical and optical properties of atmospheric aerosol deep inland in the Negev Desert of Israel. Sampled airborne dust was found be internally mixed with sea-salt particles and reacted with anthropogenic pollution, which makes the dust highly hygroscopic and a liquid coating of particles appears. These physicochemical transformations are associated with a change in aerosol radiative properties.