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Articles | Volume 24, issue 21
Articles | Volume 24, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-12161-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-12161-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 21
Research article
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30 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 30 Oct 2024

Long-range transport of coarse mineral dust: an evaluation of the Met Office Unified Model against aircraft observations

Natalie G. Ratcliffe, Claire L. Ryder, Nicolas Bellouin, Stephanie Woodward, Anthony Jones, Ben Johnson, Lisa-Maria Wieland, Maximilian Dollner, Josef Gasteiger, and Bernadett Weinzierl

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Large mineral dust particles are more abundant in the atmosphere than expected and have different impacts on the environment than small particles, which are better represented in climate models. We use aircraft measurements to assess a climate model representation of large-dust transport. We find that the model underestimates the amount of large dust at all stages of transport and that fast removal of the large particles increases this underestimation with distance from the Sahara.
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