In situ measurements of desert dust particles above the western Mediterranean Sea with the balloon-borne Light Optical Aerosol Counter/sizer (LOAC) during the ChArMEx campaign of summer 2013
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
(LPC2E), UMR CNRS-Université d'Orléans, 3A avenue de la recherche
scientifique, Orléans, France
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), UMR
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, IPSL, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay 701,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Pierre Durand
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UT3,
Toulouse, France
Quentin Bourgeois
Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Cyrielle Denjean
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), 18 Avenue Edouard Belin,
Toulouse, France
now at: Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM),
UMR 3589 Météo-France-CNRS, OMP, Météo-France, Toulouse, France
Damien Vignelles
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
(LPC2E), UMR CNRS-Université d'Orléans, 3A avenue de la recherche
scientifique, Orléans, France
Benoit Couté
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
(LPC2E), UMR CNRS-Université d'Orléans, 3A avenue de la recherche
scientifique, Orléans, France
Matthieu Jeannot
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
(LPC2E), UMR CNRS-Université d'Orléans, 3A avenue de la recherche
scientifique, Orléans, France
now at: MeteoModem company, Chemin du Moulin, Ury, France
Nicolas Verdier
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), 18 Avenue Edouard Belin,
Toulouse, France
Marc Mallet
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UT3,
Toulouse, France
now at: Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM),
UMR 3589 Météo-France-CNRS, OMP, Météo-France, Toulouse, France
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A campaign was performed in the summer of 2013 above the Mediterranean basin, including in situ counting balloon-borne aerosol measurements (LOAC), for the detection of mineral dust. Three modes in the dust particle volume size distributions were detected, at roughly 0.2, 4, and 30 mm. Particles larger than 40 mm were often observed. They were lifted several days before and their persistence after transport over long distances is in conflict with dust sedimentation calculations.
A campaign was performed in the summer of 2013 above the Mediterranean basin, including in situ...
