Saharan dust transport studied by airborne Doppler wind lidar and numerical models

• Main Author: Chouza Keil, Fernando
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2016
• Subjects: Saharan dust, doppler wind lidar, numerical models, SALTRACE; 500; 530; FOS Physical sciences; Aeolus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/edoc.20445; https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/20445

Every year a large amount of dust is transported over the north Atlantic ocean from North Africa into the Caribbean region. Despite the progress made during the last decades in the understanding and modeling of this process, many uncertainties still remain. In this cumulative thesis, the airborne Do...