Forecasting the northern African dust outbreak towards Europe in April 2011: a model intercomparison [Discussion paper]

• Main Authors: Huneeus, Nicolas, Basart, Sara, Fiedler, Stephanie, Morcrette, ‪Jean-Jacques, Benedetti, Angela, Mulcahy, Jane, Terradellas, Enric, Pérez García-Pando, Carlos, Pejanovic, Goran, Nickovic, Slodoban, Schulz, Michael, Cuevas Agulló, Emilio, Baldasano, José María, Pey, Jorge, Remy, Samuel, Cvetkovic, Bojan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2015
• Subjects: Dust storm; Intrusión de polvo; Polvo africano; Predicción meteorológica; Dust outbreak; African dust; Forecasting; Fiedler; Huneeus; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/6662

In the framework of the World Meteorological Organisation's Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System, we evaluated the predictions of five state-of-the-art dust forecast models during an intense Saharan dust outbreak affecting Western and Northern Europe in April 2011. We asse...