Modeling of Saharan dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean by RegCM3: case studies

Optical properties of mineral dust outbreaks over the northeastern Mediterranean

[1] Ground-based aerosol optical measurements were conducted within the framework of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) program at the IMS-METU site at Erdemli (36 330N, 34 150E) along the Turkish coast of the northeastern Mediterranean from January 2000 to June 2001. The measurements were used to identify and define predominant regional aerosol optical properties, with an emphasis on minera...

Measurements of Saharan dust over the Eastern Mediterranean

A. Papayannis, D. Balis, V. Amiridis, G. Chourdakis, G. Tsaknakis, C. Zerefos, A. D. A. Castanho, S. Nickovic, S. Kazadzis, and J. Grabowski Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece Department of Geology, University of Athens, Greece Department of Physics, University of São Paulo, Br...

African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001--2011

A long Saharan dust event over the western Mediterranean: Lidar, Sun photometer observations, and regional dust modeling

[1] A long Saharan dust event affected the western Mediterranean in the period 12– 28 June 2002. Dust was present mainly between 1and 5-km height affecting most parts of the Iberian Peninsula and reaching western/central Europe. Intensive backscatter lidar observations over Barcelona (Spain) and Sun photometer data from two stations (El Arenosillo, Spain, and Avignon, France) are used to evalua...

Saharan dust outbreaks and iberulite episodes

Mineral dust aerosols coming from the arid and semiarid regions of the world can aggregate and form microspherulites under special atmospheric conditions. This is the case for iberulites, formed in the atmosphere from Saharan dust intrusions into the southern Iberian Peninsula during the summer, prompting a noteworthy case of dust accretion unique in the world. This study consists of a long-ter...