ACPD Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions ACPD 1680-7375 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acpd-10-5051-2010 Transport of dust particles from the Bodélé region to the monsoon layer: AMMA case study of the 9–14 June 2006 period Crumeyrolle S. 1 2 Tulet P. 2 3 Garcia-Carreras L. 4 Flamant C. 5 Parker D. J. 4 Matsuki A. 1 6 Schwarzenboeck A. 1 Formenti P. 7 Gomes L. 2 Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Blaise Pascal, UMR6016, Clermont-Ferrand, France CNRM/GAME, Météo-France, URA1357, Toulouse, France LACy, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis, France School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS-UPMC-UVSQ, Paris, France Frontier Science Organization, Kanazawa University, Japan LISA/IPSL, Universités Paris 12 et Paris 7, CNRS, UMR6240, Créteil, France 22 02 2010 10 2 5051 5090 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/5051/2010/acpd-10-5051-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/5051/2010/acpd-10-5051-2010.pdf

Aerosol properties were measured during an airborne campaign experiment that took place in June 2006 in West Africa within the framework of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA). The goal of the present study was to determine the process that facilitates the sedimentation of dust particles from the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) to the boundary layer. A significant change in the dust particle concentration measured along the meridian between Niamey (Niger) and Cotonou (Benin) was found in the boundary layer (~700 m), where the dust particle concentration increased in a zone where local emission is not possible. Moreover, the boundary layer top observed with the dropsondes launched with the F-F20 shows a strong relationship with the surface cover anomalies, with higher Boundary Layer (BL) tops over the warmer surfaces, such as croplands, as opposed to adjacent forest. A mesoscale atmospheric model with a new on-line dust parameterization, resulting from the Alfaro and Gomes (2001) parametrisation and AMMA observations, was used to interpret the impact of vegetation anomalies on dust particle sedimentation. The results of the simulation are consistent with the observations, with higher dust over the warm surface cover anomalies.

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