Large Dust Aerosol Sizes Seen During the 2018 Martian Global Dust Event by the Curiosity Rover

High Altitude Dust Global Distribution , Vertical Mixing , and Particle Sizes during the 2001 Planet - Encircling Dust

Introduction: Dust aerosols are observed to extend to high altitudes during planetary-scale dust storms [1-4]. Most recent GCM modeling of vertically extensive dust loading over the course of such storms indicates that dust particles with radii of 1-2 µm may be lifted to altitudes above 40 km, and their vertical distributions strongly affected by vigorous meridional transport which is intensifi...

Aerosol-ozone correlations during dust transport episodes

Aerosol-ozone correlations during dust transport episodes P. Bonasoni, P. Cristofanelli, F. Calzolari, U. Bonafè, F. Evangelisti, A. Stohl, R. van Dingenen, T. Colombo, and Y. Balkanski National Research Council, Institute for Atmospheric Science and Climate, via Gobetti 101, 40129, Bologna, Italy Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado/NOAA Aero...

Mass of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere

1 Estimates of the mass of dust suspended in the Martian atmosphere are derived from global and regional 9 pm opacity maps produced from Viking Infrared Thermal Mapper data. During the peak of the 1977b storm, a total dust mass of approximately 101 S gm was suspended, equivalent to 10-3 gm/cm2, or a layer 4 Lm thick. During a local dust storm near Solis Planum at Ls 227°, approximately 3.56 x 1...

How different source regions across the Middle East change aerosol and dust particle characteristics

A major question is whether different source regions across the Middle East account for changes in aerosol and dust particle characteristics, which impact Western Iran. Therefore, over a period of sampling from April 2017 to April 2018, dust particles were collected in Western Iran from different cities including Urmia, Sanandaj, Sare-Pole-Zahab, Dehloran and Abadan. The research aim is to comp...

SAWA experiment – properties of mineral dust aerosol as seen by synergic lidar and sun-photometer measurements