Observing Mineral Dust in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe: Current Capabilities and Challenges ahead for the Development of Dust Services

Autor(en)

Lucia Mona, Vassilis Amiridis, Emilio Cuevas, Antonis Gkikas, Serena Trippetta, Sophie Vandenbussche, Angela Benedetti, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Paola Formenti, Alexander Haefele, Stelios Kazadzis, Peter Knippertz, Benoit Laurent, Fabio Madonna, Slobodan Nickovic, Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Thomas Popp, Sergio Rodríguez, Andrea Sealy, Nobuo Sugimoto, Enric Terradellas, Ana Vukovic Vimic, Bernadette Weinzierl, Sara Basart

Abstrakt

Mineral dust produced by wind erosion of arid and semiarid surfaces is a major component of atmospheric aerosol that affects climate, weather, ecosystems, and socioeconomic sectors such as human health, transportation, solar energy, and air quality. Understanding these effects and ultimately improving the resilience of affected countries requires a reliable, dense, and diverse set of dust observations, fundamental for the development and the provision of skillful dust-forecast-tailored products. The last decade has seen a notable improvement of dust observational capabilities in terms of considered parameters, geographical coverage, and delivery times, as well as of tailored products of interest to both the scientific community and the various end-users. Given this progress, here we review the current state of observational capabilities, including in situ, ground-based, and satellite remote sensing observations in northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe for the provision of dust information considering the needs of various users. We also critically discuss observational gaps and related unresolved questions while providing suggestions for overcoming the current limitations. Our review aims to be a milestone for discussing dust observational gaps at a global level to address the needs of users, from research communities to nonscientific stakeholders.

Organisation(en)

Aerosolphysik und Umweltphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Agricultural University of Iceland, Physikalisch-Meteorologische Observatorium, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, National Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Belgrade, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, Academy of Athens, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Université Paris-Cité, Université Paris XII - Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne, Bundesamt für Meteorologie und Klimatologie, World Meteorological Organisation, National Observatory of Athens

Journal

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Band

104

Seiten

E2223-E2264

Anzahl der Seiten

42

ISSN

0003-0007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0005.1

Publikationsdatum

12-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103039 Aerosolphysik, 103037 Umweltphysik, 105208 Atmosphärenchemie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Atmospheric Science

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8272ed1d-7a63-4b25-b6aa-7a4cf2d2a98b