Long-range transport of Saharan dust and its radiative impact on precipitation forecast: a case study during the Convective and Orographically induced Precipitation Study (COPS)

Jean-Pierre Chaboureau; Evelyne Richard; Jean-Pierre Pinty; Cyrille Flamant; Paolo Di Girolamo; Christoph Kiemle; Andreas Behrendt; Hélène Chepfer; Marjolaine Chiriaco; Volker Wulfmeyer

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Long-range transport of Saharan dust and its radiative impact on precipitation forecast: a case study during the Convective and Orographically induced Precipitation Study (COPS)
Chaboureau J.-P., Richard E., Pinty J.-P., Flamant C., Di Girolamo P., Kiemle C., Behrendt A., Chepfer H., Chiriaco M., Wulfmeyer V.
Quarterly Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 137, S1 (2011) 236-251 - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00560742

Type de publication :

Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture

Domaine :

Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Climatologie

Sciences de l'environnement/Milieux et Changements globaux

Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Météorologie

Titre :

Long-range transport of Saharan dust and its radiative impact on precipitation forecast: a case study during the Convective and Orographically induced Precipitation Study (COPS)

Auteur(s) :

Jean-Pierre Chaboureau ¹, Evelyne Richard ¹, Jean-Pierre Pinty ¹, Cyrille Flamant ^2, 3, Paolo Di Girolamo ⁴, Christoph Kiemle ⁵, Andreas Behrendt ⁶, Hélène Chepfer ⁷, Marjolaine Chiriaco ^2, 3, Volker Wulfmeyer ⁶

Laboratoire :

1 :	Laboratoire d'aérologie (LA)

	http://www.aero.obs-mip.fr/

	CNRS : UMR5560 – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées – INSU – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III

	14 avenue Edouard Belin 31400 Toulouse

	France

2 :	Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL)

	http://www.ipsl.jussieu.fr/

	CNRS : FR636 – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] – CEA – CNES – INSU – Université Pierre et Marie Curie [UPMC] - Paris VI – Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Ecole normale supérieure de Paris - ENS Paris

	4 Place Jussieu 75252 PARIS CEDEX 05

	France

3 :	Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)

	http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr

	CNRS : UMR8190 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie [UPMC] - Paris VI – Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – INSU

	France

4 :	Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Fisica dell'Ambiente (Difa)

	Universita degli Studi della Basilicta

	Viale dell'Ateneo Lucano n. 10, 85100 Potenza

	Italie

5 :	Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA)

	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

	Oberpfaffenhofen

	Allemagne

6 :	Institut für Physik und Meteorologie (IPM)

	https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/

	University of Hohenheim

	Universitaet Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 30, D-70599 Stuttgart,

	Allemagne

7 :	Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD)

	http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/

	CNRS : UMR8539 – INSU – Université Pierre et Marie Curie [UPMC] - Paris VI – Polytechnique - X – Ecole normale supérieure de Paris - ENS Paris

	LMD ENS 24 Rue Lhomond 75231 Paris Cedex 05

	France

Équipe de recherche :

space

Résumé :

A Saharan dust event affected the Rhine valley in southwestern Germany and eastern France on 1 August 2007 during the Convective and Orographically induced Precipitation Study (COPS) experiment. Prior to an episode of intense convection, a layer of dry, clean air capped by a moist, dusty layer was observed using Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) and airborne and ground-based lidar observations from North Africa to western Europe. The origin of the different layers was investigated using the regional model Meso-NH. For the purpose of modelling evaluation, a lidar simulator was developed for direct comparison of observed and simulated vertical structures of the lidar backscattered signal. Overall, the model reproduced the vertical structure of dust probed several times by the different lidar systems during its long-range transport. From Lagrangian back trajectories it was found that the dust was mobilized from sources in Mauritania six days earlier, while the dry layer subsided over the north Atlantic. Off the Moroccan coasts, the dry layer folded down beneath the dusty air mass and the two-layer structure was advected to the Rhine valley in about two days. By heating the atmosphere, the dust layer changed the static stability of the atmosphere and thus the occurrence of convection. A study of sensitivity to the radiative effect of dust showed a better prediction of precipitation when a dust prognostic scheme was used rather than climatology or when dust effects were ignored. This result suggests that dust episodes that occur prior to convective events might be important for quantitative precipitation forecasts

Langue du texte
intégral :

Anglais

Journal :

Quarterly Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Audience :

internationale

Date de publication :

2011

Volume :

137

Numéro :

Page, identifiant, ... :

236-251


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