Saharan dust and biomass burning aerosols during ex-hurricane Ophelia: observations from the new UK lidar and sun-photometer network

Osborne, Martin; Malavelle, Florent F.; Adam, Mariana; Buxmann, Joelle; Sugier, Jaqueline; Marenco, Franco; Haywood, Jim

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3557-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3557-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3557-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

Research article

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20 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 20 Mar 2019

Saharan dust and biomass burning aerosols during ex-hurricane Ophelia: observations from the new UK lidar and sun-photometer network

Martin Osborne, Florent F. Malavelle, Mariana Adam, Joelle Buxmann, Jaqueline Sugier, Franco Marenco, and Jim Haywood

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RC1: 'Review of “Saharan dust and biomass burning aerosols during ex-hurricane Ophelia: validation of the new UK lidar and sun-photometer network” by Osborne et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Sep 2018
RC2: 'Review of 'Saharan dust and biomass burning aerosols during ex-hurricane Ophelia: validation of the new UK lidar and sun-photometer Network'', Anonymous Referee #3, 10 Dec 2018
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Short summary

In this paper we present an analysis of the unusual red sky event that occurred over the UK on 15 and 16 October 2017. We use measurements from the Met Office operational lidar and sun-photometer network, as well as other data and model output, to show that the event was caused by the passage of ex-hurricane Ophelia which transported unusual amounts of dust from the Sahara to the UK as well as smoke from forest fires in Portugal.