Measurement report: Balloon-borne in situ profiling of Saharan dust over Cyprus with the UCASS optical particle counter

Kezoudi, Maria; Tesche, Matthias; Smith, Helen; Tsekeri, Alexandra; Baars, Holger; Dollner, Maximilian; Estellés, Víctor; Bühl, Johannes; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Ulanowski, Zbigniew; Müller, Detlef; Amiridis, Vassilis

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6781-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6781-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6781-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 9

Measurement report

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05 May 2021

Measurement report |

| 05 May 2021

Measurement report: Balloon-borne in situ profiling of Saharan dust over Cyprus with the UCASS optical particle counter

Maria Kezoudi, Matthias Tesche, Helen Smith, Alexandra Tsekeri, Holger Baars, Maximilian Dollner, Víctor Estellés, Johannes Bühl, Bernadett Weinzierl, Zbigniew Ulanowski, Detlef Müller, and Vassilis Amiridis

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Dec 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Maria Kezoudi, 12 Mar 2021
RC2: 'Review of Kezoudi et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Maria Kezoudi, 12 Mar 2021

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AR by Maria Kezoudi on behalf of the Authors (31 Mar 2021)

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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.