Dust intrusion events into the Mediterranean basin

Abstract

The analysis has shown that transport of Saharan dust occurring in the central part of the Mediterranean are usually rather intensive in the atmospheric mass-loading capacity and take place in deeper atmospheric layers for a longer duration (approximately 2-4 days) than eastern Mediterranean dust events. The eastern transport usually originates from the Arabian Desert for short periods (approximately 1 day) and is restricted to a rather shallow atmospheric transport layer featured by low optical depth values. -from Authors