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Dust is one of main aerosol types in the atmosphere and plays an important role in modulating climate via a number of complex processes. A 3D multi-year monthly mean climatology of Saharan dust advection over Europe is presented under cloud-free conditions, using an area-optimized pure dust CALIPSO product. The product has been developed by applying EARLINET-measured dust lidar ratios and depolarization-based dust discrimination methods. This approach results in a very good agreement when comparing CALIPSO AOD with AERONET retrievals over Europe/North Africa and with the MODIS/Aqua product over the Mediterranean. The processing of such purely observational data can provide seasonal patterns of pure Saharan dust transportation towards Europe and the Atlantic Ocean. The physical and optical properties of the dust layers are identified for several areas near the Saharan sources, over the Mediterranean and over continental Europe.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no. 262254 (ACTRIS). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no 606953 (MarcoPolo). The use of NASA CALIPSO data is acknowledged with many thanks. Special thanks are expressed to ICARE Data and Services Center for providing access to the CALIPSO data used in this study and their Computer Cluster infrastructure.
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Marinou, E. et al. (2017). 3D Saharan Dust Variability Over Europe as Seen by CALIPSO. In: Karacostas, T., Bais, A., Nastos, P. (eds) Perspectives on Atmospheric Sciences. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35095-0_126
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