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28 Oct 2024
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| 28 Oct 2024
Extreme Saharan dust events expand northward over the Atlantic and Europe, prompting record-breaking PM10 and PM2.5 episodes
Sergio Rodríguez
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Group of Atmosphere, Aerosols and Climate, IPNA CSIC, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Jessica López-Darias
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Group of Atmosphere, Aerosols and Climate, IPNA CSIC, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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Short summary
Extreme Saharan dust events expanded northward to the Atlantic and Europe, prompting record-breaking PM10 and PM2.5 events. These episodes are caused by low-to-high dipole meteorology during hemispheric anomalies characterized by subtropical anticyclones shifting to higher latitudes, anomalous low pressures beyond the tropics and amplified Rossby waves. Extreme dust events occur in a paradoxical context of a multidecadal decrease in dust emissions, a topic that requires further investigation.
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