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Spatio-temporal monitoring by ground-based and air- and space-borne lidars of a moderate Saharan dust event affecting southern Europe in June 2013 in the framework of the ADRIMED/ChArMEx campaign

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During the ADRIMED (Aerosol Direct Radiative Impact on the regional climate in the Mediterranean region) special observation period (SOP-1a), conducted in June 2013 in the framework of the ChArMEx (Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment) project, a moderate Saharan dust event swept the Western and Central Mediterranean Basin (WCMB) from west to east during a 9-day period between 16 and 24 June. This event was monitored from the ground by six EARLINET/ACTRIS (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network/Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network) lidar stations (Granada, Barcelona, Naples, Potenza, Lecce and Serra la Nave) and two ADRIMED/ChArMEx lidar stations specially deployed for the field campaign in Cap d’en Font and Ersa, in Minorca and Corsica Islands, respectively. The first part of the study shows the spatio-temporal monitoring of the dust event during its transport over the WCMB with ground-based lidar and co-located AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) Sun-photometer measurements. Dust layer optical depths, Ångström exponents, coarse mode fractions, linear particle depolarization ratios (LPDRs), dust layer heights and the dust radiative forcing estimated in the shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) spectral ranges at the bottom of the atmosphere (BOA) and at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) with the Global Atmospheric Model (GAME), have been used to characterize the dust event. Peak values of the AERONET aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 440 nm ranged between 0.16 in Potenza and 0.37 in Cap d’en Font. The associated Ångström exponent and coarse mode fraction mean values ranged from 0.43 to 1.26 and from 0.25 to 0.51, respectively. The mineral dust produced a negative SW direct radiative forcing at the BOA ranging from −56.9 to −3.5 W m−2. The LW radiative forcing at the BOA was positive, ranging between +0.3 and +17.7 W m-2. The BOA radiative forcing estimates agree with the ones reported in the literature. At the TOA, the SW forcing varied between −34.5 and +7.5 W m−2. In seven cases, the forcing at the TOA resulted positive because of the aerosol strong absorbing properties (0.83 < single-scattering albedo (SSA) < 0.96). The multi-intrusion aspect of the event is examined by means of air- and space-borne lidar measurements, satellite images and back trajectories. The analysis reported in this paper underline the arrival of a second different intrusion of mineral dust observed over southern Italy at the end of the considered period which probably results in the observed heterogeneity in the dust properties.

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Acknowledgements

This study is performed in the framework of work package 4 on aerosol-radiation-climate interactions of the coordinated programme ChArMEx (the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment; http://charmex.lsce.ipsl.fr). It is also supported by the ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure Network) Research Infrastructure Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 654169 and previously under grant agreement no. 262254 in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013); by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (project TEC2012-34575 and TEC2015-63832-P) and of Science and Innovation (project UNPC10-4E-442) and EFRD (European Fund for Regional Development); by the Department of Economy and Knowledge of the Catalan autonomous government (grant 2014 SGR 583); and by the Andalusia Regional Government through projects P12-RNM-2409 and P10-RNM-6299. This work was funded by the VAMOS SEGURO project, Programma di Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia-Malta 2007–2013, A1.2.3-62, Obiettivo Specifico 2.3. ChArMEx-France is supported through the MISTRALS programme by INSU, ADEME, Météo-France and CEA. ADRIMED project was mainly supported by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche. AERONET/PHOTONS is acknowledged for calibration of the Ersa Sun-photometer. Acknowledgement to AERONET for sun-photometer quality-assured data processing and distribution.

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  1. Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    R. Barragan, M. Sicard, A. Comerón, C. Muñoz-Porcar, F. Rocadenbosch & A. Rodriguez-Gomez

  2. Ciències i Tecnologies de l’Espai - Centre de Recerca de l’Aeronàutica i de l’Espai/Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (CTE-CRAE/IEEC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    R. Barragan, M. Sicard & F. Rocadenbosch

  3. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, IPSL and Univ. Paris- Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France

    J. Totems, F. Dulac & P. Chazette

  4. Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Université de Toulouse/CNRS, Toulouse, France

    J. F. Léon & V. Pont

  5. CNRM UMR 3589, Météo-France/CNRS, Toulouse, France

    M. Mallet

  6. Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    J. Pelon

  7. Dpt. Applied Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Fuentenueva s/n, Granada, 18071, Spain

    L. Alados-Arboledas, J. A. Bravo-Aranda, M. J. Granados-Muñoz, J. L. Guerrero-Rascado & G. Titos

  8. Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA-CEAMA), Avda. del Mediterráneo s/n, 18006, Granada, Spain

    L. Alados-Arboledas, J. A. Bravo-Aranda, M. J. Granados-Muñoz, J. L. Guerrero-Rascado & G. Titos

  9. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), Potenza, Italy

    A. Amodeo, A. Boselli, G. D’Amico, F. Madonna, L. Mona & G. Pappalardo

  10. Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille, France

    P. Augustin & P. Dubuisson

  11. Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Naples, Italy

    A. Boselli

  12. Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

    P. Burlizzi & M. R. Perrone

  13. INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Gravina di Catania, Italy

    G. Leto & R. Zanmar Sanchez

  14. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo, Sezione di Catania, Italy

    S. Scollo

  15. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    N. Spinelli & X. Wang

  16. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto Superconduttori, Materiali Innovativi e Dispositivi (SPIN-CNR), Naples, Italy

    X. Wang

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Barragan, R., Sicard, M., Totems, J. et al. Spatio-temporal monitoring by ground-based and air- and space-borne lidars of a moderate Saharan dust event affecting southern Europe in June 2013 in the framework of the ADRIMED/ChArMEx campaign. Air Qual Atmos Health 10, 261–285 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-016-0447-7

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