Fluxes of Saharan dust deposition across the tropical North Atlantic Ocean ...

• Main Authors: van der Does, Michèlle, Brummer, Geert-Jan A, van Crimpen, Fleur C J, Korte, Laura F, Mahowad, Nathalie M, Merkel, Ute, Yu, Hongbin, Zuidema, Paquita, Stuut, Jan-Berend W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: CESM; North Atlantic; Saharan dust; Sediment traps; NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University NIOZ_UU
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.912241; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.912241

Dataset includes sediment-trap data of Saharan dust deposition along a trans-Atlantic transect at 12°N, Model simulations of dry- and wet deposited dust across the same transect, and satellite observations of Dust Optical Depth (DOD) and precipitation.Fig. 2 includes dust deposition fluxes for sampling years 2013 and 2014, precipitation obtained from TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) at 1x1° resolution, and DOD calculated from Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Collection 6 data also at 1x1° resolution.Fig. 3 shows the monthly averages of dust deposition fluxes (average for 2013 and 2014 sampling years), dust concentrations obtained at the monitoring station at Barbados (13.2°N, 59.4°W) averaged for 2013-2014, model simulations of dry and wet dust deposition using the Community Earth System Model (CESM), at 5°x10° resolution, between 10 and 15°N and 10 and 60°W, and averaged monthly precipitation at the sediment-trap sites (1x1° resolution) from ...