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A comparative analysis of long-range inflows of desert dust and its mixtures over Central Poland, in particular optical properties, were obtained from lidar surveys. The mineral dust inflows over Warsaw were identified based on lidar measurements and three independent models (HYSPLIT, BSC-DREAM8b, and NAAPS), which resulted in preparing unique database of optical properties of mineral dust and its mixtures. This has a potential to be used for further studies of aerosol microphysical properties. Aerosol properties during inflows were also analyzed in relation to meteorological parameters and local climatic data revealing an increase in the number and duration of observed episodes of mineral dust intrusions over Poland. Optical properties of mineral dust vary with the amount and type of admixtures of other aerosols.
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The work was done within the European Commission grants: ACTRIS (no. 262254), ACTRIS-2 (no. 654109), and ACTRIS PPP (no. 739530). The work was developed in a scientific collaboration between the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw (FUW) and the Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in the frame of the Polish Foundation of Science and Technology (GrantNo.519/FNITP/115/2010). The lidar signals within this paper were evaluated according to the Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) procedures of the ACTRIS-EARLINET Data Base. We thank Volker Freudenthaler at the MIM-LMU for evaluating the QA tests and Lucia Mona at the IMMA-CNR for running the QC procedures. Authors acknowledge the vital support from the IMAA CNR for the Single Calculus Chain provision and development.
We gratefully acknowledge the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) for the provision of the HYSPLIT transport and dispersion model and/or READY website (https://www.ready.noaa.gov) used in this study, as well as the NAAPS model output obtained via NRL/Monterey Aerosol Page (https://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/), and the BSC-DREAM8b Barcelona Supercomputing Center which were used via webpage https://ess.bsc.es/bsc-dust-daily-forecast.
The research was funded by the project Preludium 19: Study of differences in optical and microphysical properties of local agricultural dust and long range transported desert dust. no: 2020/37/N/ST10/02682.
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Szczepanik, D.M. et al. (2023). Long-Term Changes of Optical Properties of Mineral Dust and Its Mixtures Derived from Raman Polarization Water Vapor Lidar in Central Europe. In: Sullivan, J.T., et al. Proceedings of the 30th International Laser Radar Conference. ILRC 2022. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37818-8_46
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