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Acta Geophysica

, Volume 64, Issue 6, pp 2550–2590 | Cite as

Modelling and Observation of Mineral Dust Optical Properties over Central Europe

  • Michał T. Chilinski
  • Krzysztof M. Markowicz
  • Olga Zawadzka
  • Iwona S. Stachlewska
  • Wojciech Kumala
  • Tomasz Petelski
  • Przemysław Makuch
  • Douglas L. Westphal
  • Bogdan Zagajewski
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Abstract

This paper is focused on Saharan dust transport to Central Europe/Poland; we compare properties of atmospheric Saharan dust using data from NAAPS, MACC, AERONET as well as observations obtained during HyMountEcos campaign in June 2012. Ten years of dust climatology shows that long-range transport of Saharan dust to Central Europe is mostly during spring and summer. HYSPLIT back-trajectories indicate airmass transport mainly in November, but it does not agree with modeled maxima of dust optical depth. NAAPS model shows maximum of dust optical depth (~0.04–0.05, 550 nm) in April–May, but the MACC modeled peak is broader (~0.04). During occurrence of mineral dust over Central-Europe for 14% (NAAPS) / 12% (MACC) of days dust optical depths are above 0.05 and during 4% (NAAPS) / 2.5% (MACC) of days dust optical depths exceed 0.1. The HyMountEcos campaign took place in June–July 2012 in the mountainous region of Karkonosze. The analysis includes remote sensing data from lidars, sunphotometers, and numerical simulations from NAAPS, MACC, DREAM8b models. Comparison of simulations with observations demonstrates the ability of models to reasonably reproduce aerosol vertical distributions and their temporal variability. However, significant differences between simulated and measured AODs were found. The best agreement was achieved for MACC model.

Key words

aerosol mineral dust MACC NAAPS DREAM aerosol transport model remote sensing 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Michał T. Chilinski
    • 1
    • 2
    • 5
  • Krzysztof M. Markowicz
    • 1
  • Olga Zawadzka
    • 1
    • 2
  • Iwona S. Stachlewska
    • 1
  • Wojciech Kumala
    • 1
  • Tomasz Petelski
    • 3
  • Przemysław Makuch
    • 3
  • Douglas L. Westphal
    • 4
  • Bogdan Zagajewski
    • 5
  1. 1.Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of PhysicsUniversity of WarsawWarsawPoland
  2. 2.College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural SciencesWarsawPoland
  3. 3.Institute of OceanologyPolish Academy of SciencesSopotPoland
  4. 4.Marine Meteorology DivisionNaval Research LaboratoryMonterey, CAUSA
  5. 5.Department of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography and Regional StudiesUniversity of WarsawWarsawPoland

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