UK SOLAS Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) FAAM Aircraft campaign

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19 June 2018
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Summary

The UK SOLAS Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) project aimed at quantifying the chemical and microphysical properties of Saharan dust in the tropical Atlantic region.

Case studies were conducted using in situ measurements made by the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft to predict dust deposition to the northern hemisphere Atlantic Ocean. These studies aimed at describing how changing chemical and physical properties in the dust affect its long range transport and also assessed the radiative impact of the dust and its effect on sea surface temperatures in nutrient rich waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The dust sources were fingerprinted using single particle characterisation and by assessing their main composition. The climatological representativeness of the studies will be assessed and used to predict the seasonal footprint of dust deposition to the north Atlantic Ocean.

Two aircraft campaigns using the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft were conducted:

  • DODO 1 in association with the DABEX campaign from Dakar in Jan-Feb. 2006
  • DODO2 in association with the AMMA campaign from Dakar in Sep-Oct. 2006.

Measurements have included Chemical composition, microphysics and optical properties of aerosols, Radiative fluxes, Trace gas chemistry.

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UK SOLAS at BODC N/A 19 June 2018 Not available
UK SOLAS NERC website N/A 19 June 2018 Not available
DODO-1 Diary N/A 19 June 2018 Not available
DODO FAAM 2006 campaign Photo Gallery N/A 19 June 2018 Not available
SOLAS International website N/A 19 June 2018 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2017-11-02
Access contraints
Restricted; Access groups: faam_core; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/faam_core.pdf
Harvest GUID
726ce54c74a0479a965a9231744c3eae
Extent
Latitude: 21.0010604858° to °
Longitude: -18.3345108032° to -12.5259819031°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date
2006-12-10T03:17:16 (publication)
2006-12-10T03:17:16 (creation)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (ceda_officer); (ceda_officer); British Atmospheric Data Centre (custodian, publisher, distributer, point_of_contact, metadata_owner, curator); Polaris House (author); University of Reading (author)
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Restricted; Access groups: faamcore; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/dataaccesscondition/faamcore.pdf