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

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

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0005.1

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

Lucia Mona (Corresponding author)
, 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

Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E2223-E2264
Number of pages	42
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	104
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0005.1
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023

Funding

Authors acknowledge Dr. Sangboom Ryoo of Korean Meteorological Administration in Seoul for his help and support. The research leading to these results has received funding from the COST ActionCA16202, supported by COST Association (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), from DustClim Project as part of ERA4CS, an ERA-NET initiated by JPI Climate, and funded by FORMAS (SE), DLR (DE), BMWFW (AT), IFD (DK), MINECO (ES), ANR (FR) with co-funding by the European Union (Grant 690462) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program for societal challenges “Smart, Green and Integrated Transport” under Grant Agreement 723986 (project EUNADICS-AV – European Natural Disaster Coordination and Information System for Aviation). L. Mona acknowledges the ACTRIS-IMP (Implementation Project), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant 871115) and the contribution of the ACTRIS-ITALIA JRU (CNR project 0067310/2017). S. Basart acknowledges CAMS-84 and CAMS2-82 (part of the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Services, CAMS) and the Spanish Jose Castillejo mobility programme (CAS18/0033). V. Amiridis acknowledges support from the European Research Council (Grant 725698, D-TECT). A. Gkikas acknowledges support by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (project acronym: ATLANTAS, project number: 544). S. Kazadzis acknowledges the ACTRIS-CH (Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure – Swiss contribution) funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation, Switzerland. Work of P. Dagsson-Waldhauserova was partly funded by the Czech Science Foundation (HLD-CHANGE project, 20-06168Y). C. Pérez García-Pando acknowledges the long-term support from the AXA Research Fund, as well as the support received through the Ramón y Cajal programme (Grant RYC-2015-18690) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement 773051). B. Weinzierl acknowledges funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement 640458, A‐LIFE). Acknowledgments. Authors acknowledge Dr. Sangboom Ryoo of Korean Meteorological Administration in Seoul for his help and support. The research leading to these results has received funding from the COST ActionCA16202, supported by COST Association (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), from DustClim Project as part of ERA4CS, an ERA-NET initiated by JPI Climate, and funded by FORMAS (SE), DLR (DE), BMWFW (AT), IFD (DK), MINECO (ES), ANR (FR) with co-funding by the European Union (Grant 690462) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program for societal challenges “Smart, Green and Integrated Transport” under Grant Agreement 723986 (project EUNADICS-AV – European Natural Disaster Coordination and Information System for Aviation). L. Mona acknowledges the ACTRIS-IMP (Implementation Project), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant 871115) and the contribution of the ACTRIS-ITALIA JRU (CNR project 0067310/2017). S. Basart acknowledges CAMS-84 and CAMS2-82 (part of the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Services, CAMS) and the Spanish Jose Castillejo mobility programme (CAS18/0033). V. Amiridis acknowledges support from the European Research Council (Grant 725698, D-TECT). A. Gkikas acknowledges support by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (project acronym: ATLANTAS, project number: 544). S. Kazadzis acknowledges the ACTRIS-CH (Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure – Swiss contribution) funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation, Switzerland. Work of P. Dagsson-Waldhauserova was partly funded by the Czech Science Foundation (HLD-CHANGE project, 20-06168Y). C. Pérez García-Pando acknowledges the long-term support from the AXA Research Fund, as well as the support received through the Ramón y Cajal programme (Grant RYC-2015-18690) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement 773051). B. Weinzierl acknowledges funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement 640458, A‐LIFE).

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103039 Aerosol physics
103037 Environmental physics
105208 Atmospheric chemistry

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Aerosols/ particulates
Air quality
health
In situ atmospheric observations
Remote sensing

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Mona, L., Amiridis, V., Cuevas, E., Gkikas, A., Trippetta, S., Vandenbussche, S., Benedetti, A., Dagsson-Waldhauserova, P., Formenti, P., Haefele, A., Kazadzis, S., Knippertz, P., Laurent, B., Madonna, F., Nickovic, S., Papagiannopoulos, N., Pappalardo, G., García-Pando, C. P., Popp, T., ... Basart, S. (2023). Observing Mineral Dust in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe: Current Capabilities and Challenges ahead for the Development of Dust Services. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104(12), E2223-E2264. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0005.1

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Observing Mineral Dust in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe: Current Capabilities and Challenges ahead for the Development of Dust Services. / Mona, Lucia (Corresponding author); Amiridis, Vassilis; Cuevas, Emilio et al.
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