Forecasting the northern African dust outbreak towards Europe in April 2011: a model intercomparison

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Huneeus, N, Basart, S, Fiedler, S, Morcrette, J.-J, Benedetti, A, Mulcahy, J, Terradellas, E, Garcia-Pando, C. Pérez, Pejanovic, G., Nickovic, S., Arsenovic, P., Schulz, M, Cuevas, E., Baldasano, J. M., Pey, J., Remy, S., Cvetkovic, B.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Universidad de Chile = University of Chile Santiago (UCHILE), Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC - CNS), University of Leeds, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), United Kingdom Met Office Exeter, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMet), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Columbia University New York, National hydrometeorological service Belgrade, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), Norwegian Meteorological Institute Oslo (MET), Izaña Atmospheric Research Center (IARC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona (UPC), Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Geological Survey of Spain
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Huneeus; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01339003; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01339003/document; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01339003/file/acp-16-4967-2016.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4967-2016

International audience In the framework of the World Meteorological Or-ganisation'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 Saha-ran dust outbreak affecting western and northern Euro...