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Articles | Volume 24, issue 20
Articles | Volume 24, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-12031-2024
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 20
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28 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 28 Oct 2024

Extreme Saharan dust events expand northward over the Atlantic and Europe, prompting record-breaking PM10 and PM2.5 episodes

Sergio Rodríguez and Jessica López-Darias

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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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