Saharan Dust
Elemental and isotopic composition of surface soils from key Saharan dust sources
... trace Saharan dust-P sources (Grosset ...because Saharan dust has been shown to be enriched in P (Gross et ...the dust transport pathway (Carbo et ...Since dust is derived ...
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New developments in the representation of Saharan dust sources in the aerosol–climate model ECHAM6-HAM2
... potential dust sources in the Sa- hara. A 1 ◦ × 1 ◦ map of dust source activation frequencies compiled from MSG IR dust index observations over the pe- riod 2006 to 2010 is used to replace the ...
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A Unique Case Study of Near Circular Saharan Dust Transport over the Atlantic Ocean
... of Saharan dust from equatorial West African and back to Europe and Africa around the Atlantic Ocean was synoptically ...the dust cloud was governed by the position, the strength and the movement of ...
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Saharan dust events in the European Alps: role in snowmelt and geochemical characterization
... addition, dust samples collected in the Alps at 150 km from Torgnon (Artavaggio, Lecco, Italy, 1650 m ...of dust events and the elemental input to alpine ...of dust size ...aim, dust was ex- ...
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Saharan dust and association between particulate matter and case-specific mortality: a case-crossover analysis in Madrid (Spain)
... during Saharan dust days, so cannot determine specific components that could account for stronger estimated effects on Saharan dust days, or con- firm the natural or anthropogenic origin of ...
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Regional modelling of Saharan dust and biomass-burning smoke Part I: Model description and evaluation
... the Saharan dust and biomass-burning plume during the SAMUM-2 field campaign in January and February 2008 is simulated at 28 km horizontal resolution with the regional model-system COSMO- ...of dust ...
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The potential impact of Saharan dust and polluted aerosols on microbial populations in the East Mediterranean Sea, an overview of a mesocosm experimental approach.
... on-board dust enrichment microcosm experiments (Herut et ...a dust analog (treated Saharan soil) to surface seawater (Guieu et ...the Saharan dust amendment strongly stimulated primary ...
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The impact of Saharan dust and black carbon on albedo and long-term mass balance of an Alpine glacier
... The above mentioned studies are mainly focused on an- thropogenic impurities of winter snow packs and can not be directly transferred to the situation at Claridenfirn. We sup- pose that concentrations at Claridenfirn ...
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Impact of atmospheric transport on the evolution of microphysical and optical properties of Saharan dust
... uplifted dust, regional aged dust, and dust in the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) over the Canary ...of dust in SAL pro fi les is ...uplifted dust, while the vertical structure changes ...
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RV Poseidon cruise 332 Chasing Saharan Dust Storms: winter, 26 January 26 February 2006
... and dust added bottles from each of the 7 dust addition experiments at time = 0 and 48 ...the dust addition experiments, water was also sampled from both the control and dust added bottles at ...
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Orographic Effects and Evaporative Cooling along a Subtropical Cold Front: The Case of the Spectacular Saharan Dust Outbreak of March 2004
... the dust front on 2 and 3 March 2004 using a combination of diagnostic and sen- sitivity experiment approaches as in the previous sec- ...on dust emission will be discussed at the end of each ...on ...
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Optical properties of Saharan dust aerosol and contribution from the coarse mode as measured during the Fennec 2011 aircraft campaign
... 2.3 Correction of size distribution for refractive index Optical sizing probes measure the scattering cross-section from a single particle and convert this to a particle size. Since the amount of scattering is dependent ...
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Periodic input of dust over the Eastern Carpathians during the Holocene linked with Saharan desertification and human impact
... initial dust flux increase was followed by a period of reduced dust loading prior to a rapid, and apparently major (highest dust flux values in the record prior to the most recent 2 millennia), event ...
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Atmospheric ice nucleators active 12 C can be quantified on PM 10 filters
... is by increasing the number of tubes, say from 108 to 200, but the effect would only be minor (factor 1.13). Hence, the method is most suitable for the small number concentrations typically encountered at the warmer end ...
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Rapid increase in simulated North Atlantic dust deposition due to fast change of northwest African landscape during the Holocene
... rapid dust emission increase in our ...in dust emis- sions are those of former ...disabled dust emissions during the ...productive dust source ...western Saharan dust emissions ...
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Quantifying trace element and isotope fluxes at the ocean–sediment boundary: a review
... While these calculations revealed the dominance of the Saharan dust plume for the North Atlantic inventory of dissolved Fe, they also revealed a comparatively minor role for reductive, a[r] ...
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Dust mobilization and aerosol transport from West Africa to Cape Verde-a meteorological overview of SAMUM-2
... the SAharan Mineral dUst experiMent (SAMUM-2) was performed between 15 January and 14 February 2008 at the airport of Praia, Cape Verde, and provided valuable information to study the westward transport of ...
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Dust mass, cloud condensation nuclei, and ice-nucleating particle profiling with polarization lidar: updated POLIPHON conversion factors from global AERONET analysis
... the dust-related improvements presented here, POLIPHON has, in the majority of case studies, been applied to Saharan dust observations ...only Saharan-dust-related conver- sion ...
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Meteorological and dust aerosol conditions over the western Saharan region observed at Fennec Supersite-2 during the intensive observation period in June 2011
... WA dust “ hotspot ” feature. Dust events in the region are restricted to the heat low phase when dust advection occurred on many days, from sources upstream over Northern Mauritania and Algeria, ...
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
... Cremation devices have also seen improvements due to the green burial movement. New mechanisms, like exhaust stack monitors, detect when excessive smoke starts to accumulate in the device. The equipment automatically ...
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