Increasing atmospheric dust transport towards the western Mediterranean over 1948–2020

Abstract In this study, global reanalysis dataset fields of meteorological parameters (temperature and geopotential height at different atmospheric levels) in the period 1948–2020, were used to characterize main dynamic thermodynamic features African dust outbreaks (ADO) produced over regions Iberian Peninsula Balearic Islands. The record ADO previously identified with a tried-and-true procedure 8 areas domain 2001–2020 data sets load contributions estimated for all days each region, check our results. Thus, we demonstrated that air masses origin significant increase levels certain variables (geopotential thickness 1000–500 hPa layer (GT), mean potential temperature between 925 700 (TPOT), anomalies 850 (TANOM)) especially when particular synoptic-scale circulation types (CT) occurred. Moreover, higher three resulted events regional background PM 10 regions. Finally, obtained statistically upward trend under CT their associated daily values GT, TPOT TANOM from 1948 2020. These results point an frequency mass transport North Africa western Mediterranean basin on intensity as consequence transport, 1948–2020.