Dust intrusion events into the Mediterranean basin

  • U. Dayan
  • , J. Heffter
  • , J. Miller
  • , G. Gutman

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Abstract

The analysis has shown that transport of Saharan dust occurring in the central part of the Mediterranean are usually rather intensive in the atmospheric mass-loading capacity and take place in deeper atmospheric layers for a longer duration (approximately 2-4 days) than eastern Mediterranean dust events. The eastern transport usually originates from the Arabian Desert for short periods (approximately 1 day) and is restricted to a rather shallow atmospheric transport layer featured by low optical depth values. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1185-1199
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Applied Meteorology
Volume30
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1991
Externally publishedYes

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