TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparison of the physical properties of desert dust retrieved from the sunphotometer observation of major events in the Sahara, Sahel, and Arabian Peninsula
AU - Masmoudi, Mohamed
AU - Alfaro, Stéphane C.
AU - El Metwally, Mossad
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: All the data used in this work are available online at (http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/data.html). The authors would like to thank the PIs and site managers of the Masdar (P. Armstrong), KAUST Campus (G.L. Stenchikov), Solar Village (B. Holben), Cairo (M. Korany), Sede Boker (A. Karnieli), Oujda (M. Diouri), La Laguna (F.J. Exposito and J.P. Diaz), Tamanrasset (E. Cuevas), Zinder (M. A. Saley, M. Mahamadou, B. Chatenet, J.L. Rajot, and A. Feron), Banizoumbou (A. Maman, A.Zakou, and D Tanré), Cinzana (M.Coulibaly, I. Koné, and B. Chatenet), Dakar (A. Diallo, T. NDiaye, D. Tanré), and Cabo Verde (F. Evora, D. Tanré) stations for their efforts in maintaining them.They are also grateful to the AERONET/NASA teams for processing the sunphotometers’ data, making the data available and calibrating some of the instruments. The others have been calibrated within AERONET-EUROPE TNA supported by PHOTONS/AERONET (INSU/CNRS) and RIMA network and partially financed by the European Community - Research Infrastructure Action under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) “Capacities” specific programme for Integrating Activities, ACTRIS Grant Agreement no. 262254.This study is a contribution to the DGRST/CNRS COMMODEK projet #13R 1001 and to the AIRD/STDF(#5404) SUSIE project.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - © 2015 Elsevier B.V. The objective of this work is to assess the variability of the size-distribution, real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the refractive index, asymmetry parameter (g), and single scattering albedo (SSA) of desert dust events observed in the Sahara, Sahel, and Arabian Peninsula areas. For this we use the level-2 inversions of 14 AERONET sunphotometers representative of the area of study. In the dataset, the dust-dominated events are discriminated on the basis of their large optical depth and low (
AB - © 2015 Elsevier B.V. The objective of this work is to assess the variability of the size-distribution, real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the refractive index, asymmetry parameter (g), and single scattering albedo (SSA) of desert dust events observed in the Sahara, Sahel, and Arabian Peninsula areas. For this we use the level-2 inversions of 14 AERONET sunphotometers representative of the area of study. In the dataset, the dust-dominated events are discriminated on the basis of their large optical depth and low (
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597238
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169809515000460
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U2 - 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.02.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0169-8095
VL - 158-159
SP - 24
EP - 35
JO - Atmospheric Research
JF - Atmospheric Research
ER -