Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6781-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6781-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Measurement report
| 
05 May 2021
Measurement report |
| 05 May 2021
| 05 May 2021
Measurement report: Balloon-borne in situ profiling of Saharan dust over Cyprus with the UCASS optical particle counter
Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Matthias Tesche
Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
now at: Leipzig Institute for Meteorology (LIM), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Helen Smith
Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
now at: TruLife Optics Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Alexandra Tsekeri
National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
Holger Baars
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Maximilian Dollner
Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Víctor Estellés
Earth Physics and Thermodynamics Department, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Johannes Bühl
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Bernadett Weinzierl
Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Zbigniew Ulanowski
Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Detlef Müller
Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Vassilis Amiridis
National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
Data sets
AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Worldwide observations with the portable Raman lidar systems (Polly) TROPOS (Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research) http://polly.tropos.de/
Short summary
Mineral dust concentrations in the diameter range from 0.4 to 14.0 μm were measured with the balloon-borne UCASS optical particle counter. Launches were coordinated with ground-based remote-sensing and airborne in situ measurements during a Saharan dust outbreak over Cyprus. Particle number concentrations reached 50 cm−3 for the diameter range 0.8–13.9 μm. Comparisons with aircraft data show reasonable agreement in magnitude and shape of the particle size distribution.
Mineral dust concentrations in the diameter range from 0.4 to 14.0 μm were measured with the...
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint