Sun photometer retrievals of Saharan dust properties over Barbados during SALTRACE

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Toledano, Carlos, Torres, Benjamin, Velasco-Merino, Cristian, Althausen, Dietrich, Groß, Silke Martha, Wiegner, Matthias, Weinzierl, Bernadett, Gasteiger, Josef, Ansmann, A., Gonzalo, Ramiro, Mateos, David, Farell, David, Müller, Thomas, Haarig, Moritz, Cachorro, Victoria E.
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Lidar; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/131965/; https://elib.dlr.de/131965/1/Toledano%20et%20al%20acp-19-14571-2019.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14571-2019

The Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud-Interaction Experiment (SALTRACE) was devoted to the investigation of Saharan dust properties over the Caribbean. The campaign took place in June–July 2013. A wide set of ground-based and airborne aerosol strumentation was deployed at the island of Barbados for a comprehensive experiment. Several sun photometers rformed measurements during this campaign: two AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) Cimel sun photometers and the Sun and Sky Automatic Radiometer (SSARA). The sun photometers were co-located with the ground-based multiwavelength lidars BERTHA (Backscatter Extinction lidar Ratio Temperature Humidity profiling Apparatus) and POLIS (Portable Lidar System).