The electrical activity of Saharan dust as perceived from surface electric field observations

Daskalopoulou, Vasiliki; Mallios, Sotirios A.; Ulanowski, Zbigniew; Hloupis, George; Gialitaki, Anna; Tsikoudi, Ioanna; Tassis, Konstantinos; Amiridis, Vassilis

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-927-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-927-2021

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-927-2021

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

Articles | Volume 21, issue 2

Research article

|

25 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 25 Jan 2021

The electrical activity of Saharan dust as perceived from surface electric field observations

Vasiliki Daskalopoulou, Sotirios A. Mallios, Zbigniew Ulanowski, George Hloupis, Anna Gialitaki, Ioanna Tsikoudi, Konstantinos Tassis, and Vassilis Amiridis

Data sets

The Electrical Activity of Saharan Dust as perceived from Surface Electric Field Observations in Greece: Field Mill Datasets Vasiliki Daskalopoulou, George Hloupis, Sotirios A. Mallios, Zbigniew Ulanowski, and Vassilis Amiridis https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3960513

Short summary

This research highlights the detection of charged Saharan dust in Greece and provides indications of charge separation in the plumes through the first-ever co-located ground electric field measurements and sophisticated lidar observations. We provide a robust methodology for the extraction of a fair-weather proxy field used to assess the effect of lofted dust particles to the electric field and insert a realistic modelling aspect to the charge accumulation areas within electrically active dust.