Cloud macro-physical properties in Saharan-dust-laden and dust-free North Atlantic trade wind regimes: a lidar case study

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Gutleben, Manuel, Groß, Silke Martha, Wirth, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Lidar; North Atlantic; narval
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/128881/; https://elib.dlr.de/128881/1/acp-19-10659-2019.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10659-2019

This study concentrates on airborne lidar measurements conducted during the NARVAL field experiments over the western subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to study differences between shallow marine cloud macro-physical properties (i.e. cloud fraction, cloud top height, cloud length, cloud gap length) in Saharan-dust-laden and dust-free trade wind regions. Cloud top heights, cloud fractions and cloud lengths are found to be lower and smaller in Saharan-dust-laden compared to dust-free regions.