Lidar measurements for desert dust characterization: an overview

L Mona, Z Liu, D Müller, A Omar… - Advances in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We provide an overview of light detection and ranging (lidar) capability for describing and
characterizing desert dust. This paper summarizes lidar techniques, observations, and …

A review of atmospheric chemistry observations at mountain sites

S Okamoto, H Tanimoto - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2016 - Springer
Located far from anthropogenic emission sources, high-altitude mountain stations are
considered to be ideal sites for monitoring climatic and environmentally important baseline …

Enhancement of aerosol characterization using synergy of lidar and sun-photometer coincident observations: the GARRLiC algorithm

A Lopatin, O Dubovik, A Chaikovsky… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - amt.copernicus.org
This paper presents the GARRLiC algorithm (Generalized Aerosol Retrieval from
Radiometer and Lidar Combined data) that simultaneously inverts coincident lidar and …

Global modeling of heterogeneous chemistry on mineral aerosol surfaces: Influence on tropospheric ozone chemistry and comparison to observations

SE Bauer, Y Balkanski, M Schulz… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral aerosols can affect gas phase chemistry in the troposphere by providing reactive
sites for heterogeneous reactions. We present here a global modeling study of the influence …

Profiling of fine and coarse particle mass: case studies of Saharan dust and Eyjafjallajökull/Grimsvötn volcanic plumes

A Ansmann, P Seifert, M Tesche… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
The polarization lidar photometer networking (POLIPHON) method introduced to separate
coarse-mode and fine-mode particle properties of Eyjafjallajökull volcanic aerosols in 2010 …

WRF-Chem model simulations of a dust outbreak over the central Mediterranean and comparison with multi-sensor desert dust observations

U Rizza, F Barnaba, MM Miglietta… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting model with online coupled chemistry
(WRF-Chem) is applied to simulate an intense Saharan dust outbreak event that took place …

Characterization of African dust over southern Italy

A Blanco, F Dee Tomasi, E Filippo… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - acp.copernicus.org
Dust samples from rainfall residues have been collected in southeast Italy (40º 20'N, 18º 6'E)
during dust outbreaks occurred from April to June 2002 to characterize morphological and …

An inclusive view of Saharan dust advections to Italy and the Central Mediterranean

GP Gobbi, F Barnaba, L Di Liberto, A Bolignano… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
We address observations of physical and chemical properties of Saharan dust advections
(SDA) as observed in the Central Mediterranean basin, within the framework of the LIFE+ …

Atmospheric measurements of gas-phase HNO3 and SO2 using chemical ionization mass spectrometry during the MINATROC field campaign 2000 on Monte …

M Hanke, B Umann, J Uecker, F Arnold… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2003 - acp.copernicus.org
The EU-project MINATROC (MINeral dust And TROpospheric Chemistry) aims at enabling
an estimation of the influence of mineral dust, a major, but to date largely ignored …

Airborne observations of aerosol extinction by in situ and remote‐sensing techniques: Evaluation of particle hygroscopicity

LD Ziemba, K Lee Thornhill, R Ferrare… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive profiling of aerosol optical, chemical, and microphysical properties was performed
in the Washington DC/Baltimore MD region in July 2011 during NASA DISCOVER‐AQ. In …