Sharav dust storm

Bou Karam D., C. Flamant, J. Cuesta, J. Pelon, E. Williams (2010): Dust emission and transport associated with Saharan depressions: The February 2007 case. Abstract The dust activity over North Africa associated with the Saharan depression event in February 2007 is investigated by mean of spaceborne observations and ground based […]

Quantification of Dust load in the ITD region

Bou Karam D., C. Flamant, P. Tulet, J-P. Chaboureau, A. Dabas, M. C. Todd (2009b): Estimate of Sahelian dust emissions in the Intertropical discontinuity region of the West African Monsoon, submitted to JGR. Abstract A three-dimensional mesoscale numerical simulation has been performed to investigate the dust emissions over Sahel associated […]

Abstracts (plain text version)

Sahelian dust lifting in the inter-tropical discontinuity region: Lidar observations and mesoscale modelling D. Boukaram(1), C. Flamant(1), P. Tulet (2), J.-P. Chaboureau (3), A. Dabas(2), O. Reitebuch(4), M. Chong(3) (1)  Service d’Aéronomie / IPSL, Paris, France (2)  Météo-France, CNRM/GMEI, Toulouse, France (3) Laboratoire d’Aérologie, UPS and CNRS, Toulouse, France (4) […]