Inter-relations of precipitation, aerosols, and clouds over Andalusia, southern Spain, revealed by the  Andalusian Global ObseRvatory of the Atmosphere (AGORA)

Wang, Wenyue; Hocke, Klemens; Nania, Leonardo; Cazorla, Alberto; Titos, Gloria; Matthey, Renaud; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; Millares, Agustín; Navas-Guzmán, Francisco

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1571-2024

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1571-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1571-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

Research article

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01 Feb 2024

Research article |

| 01 Feb 2024

Inter-relations of precipitation, aerosols, and clouds over Andalusia, southern Spain, revealed by the Andalusian Global ObseRvatory of the Atmosphere (AGORA)

Wenyue Wang, Klemens Hocke, Leonardo Nania, Alberto Cazorla, Gloria Titos, Renaud Matthey, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Agustín Millares, and Francisco Navas-Guzmán

Data sets

ceilometer cloud base height and aerosol profile data from a network covering most of Europe with additional sites worldwide EUMETNET E-PROFILE http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/345c47d378b64c75b7957aef0c09c81f

Radar data from Granada on 13 March 2022. ACTRIS Cloud remote sensing data centre unit (CLU) M. J. Granados Muñoz and L. Alados-Arboledas https://cloudnet.fmi.fi/file/56fa3908-f274-41ce-bb5c-a950a4a57be7

Classification data from Granada on 13 March 2022. ACTRIS Cloud remote sensing data centre unit (CLU) A. Cazorla Cabrera, M. J. Granados Muñoz, F. Navas Guzmán et al. {https://cloudnet.fmi.fi/file/d847a5ae-5de9-453b-b803-22f3744cc1df

Short summary

The south-central interior of Andalusia experiences complex precipitation patterns as a result of the semi-arid Mediterranean climate and the influence of Saharan dust. This study monitored the inter-relations between aerosols, clouds, meteorological variables, and precipitation systems using ground-based remote sensing and in situ instruments.