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Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7319-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7319-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
Research article
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08 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 08 Jun 2022

Wintertime Saharan dust transport towards the Caribbean: an airborne lidar case study during EUREC4A

Manuel Gutleben, Silke Groß, Christian Heske, and Martin Wirth

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The main transportation route of Saharan mineral dust particles leads over the subtropical Atlantic Ocean and is subject to a seasonal variation. This study investigates the characteristics of wintertime transatlantic dust transport towards the Caribbean by means of airborne lidar measurements. It is found that dust particles are transported at low atmospheric altitudes (<3.5 km) embedded in a relatively moist mixture with two other particle types, namely marine and biomass-burning particles.
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