New insights into the vertical structure of the September 2015 dust storm employing eight ceilometers and auxiliary measurements over Israel

Uzan, Leenes; Egert, Smadar; Alpert, Pinhas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3203-2018

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06 Mar 2018

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| 06 Mar 2018

New insights into the vertical structure of the September 2015 dust storm employing eight ceilometers and auxiliary measurements over Israel

Leenes Uzan, Smadar Egert, and Pinhas Alpert

Data sets

Radiosonde profiles Wyoming University http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

The MSG-SEVIRI imagery NASCube data center from the Université de Lille http://nascube.univ-lille1.fr/cgi-bin/NAS3_v2.cgi

MSG SEVIRI imagery EUMETSAT https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Images/RealTimeImages/index.html

Short summary

The extraordinarily extreme dust storm of September 2015 is analyzed using an array of eight ceilometers and auxiliary measurements, revealing the dust plume penetration, ground coverage and gradual dispersion in the first kilometer above Israel. This research emphasized the importance of ceilometer networks as an essential tool in the analysis of meteorological phenomena and aerosol transport as being the most valuable in the mesoscale.