Direct radiative effects during intense Mediterranean desert dust outbreaks

Gkikas, Antonis; Obiso, Vincenzo; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos; Jorba, Oriol; Hatzianastassiou, Nikos; Vendrell, Lluis; Basart, Sara; Solomos, Stavros; Gassó, Santiago; Baldasano, José Maria

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8757-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8757-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8757-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 12

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21 Jun 2018

Research article |

| 21 Jun 2018

Direct radiative effects during intense Mediterranean desert dust outbreaks

Antonis Gkikas, Vincenzo Obiso, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Oriol Jorba, Nikos Hatzianastassiou, Lluis Vendrell, Sara Basart, Stavros Solomos, Santiago Gassó, and José Maria Baldasano

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RC1: 'Accepted', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jan 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer1', Antonis Gkikas, 15 May 2018
RC2: 'Review of the paper "Direct radiative effects of intense Mediterranean desert dust outbreaks" by A. Gkikas et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer2', Antonis Gkikas, 15 May 2018
RC3: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Feb 2018
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer3', Antonis Gkikas, 15 May 2018

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The present study investigates the direct radiative effects (DREs), induced during 20 intense Mediterranean desert dust outbreaks, based on regional short-term numerical simulations of the NMMB-MONARCH model: more specifically, (i) the DREs and their associated impacts on temperature and surface sensible and latent heat fluxes, (ii) the feedbacks on dust AOD and dust emissions, and (iii) the possible improvements in short-term forecasts (up to 84 h) of temperature and radiation.