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Tabl e 7. 2 Examples of measurements available for dust monitoring including in situ data and
ground-based and satellite-based remote sensing observations. Studies based on at least 1 year of
dust record are favoured, this way excluding case study analyses and results from field campaigns
Measurement type

Parameter relevant
for dust

Instrument network
or platform Region Selected references

Meteorological

Reduction of
horizontal
visibility (<1, 5 or
10 km)

Surface meteorological
stations (WMO)

Arid areas of the
globe

Goudie and Middleton
( 1992 ); Mahowald et al.
( 2007 )

North West Africa N'tchayi MBourou et al.

( 1997 )

China Sun et al. ( 2001 ) and Wang

et al. ( 2004 )

SYNOP weather
codes (ww D 6,
7-9, 30-35 and 98)

Sahel Cowie et al. ( 2013 )and

Klose et al. ( 2010 )

East Asia Kurosaki and Mikami

( 2003 )

In situ

Surface dust mass
concentration,
TSP, PM10 or
PM2.5 (g/m 3 )

Sampling filter -
TEOM -
gravimetric method

Barbados
Miami

Prospero and Lamb ( 2003 )
Prospero ( 1999 )

Canary Islands,
Bermuda

Arimoto et al. ( 1995 )

Canary Islands Alonso-Pérez et al. ( 2007 )
Cape Verde Islands Chiapello et al. ( 1995 ,
1997 )
Crete Island Kalivitis et al. ( 2007 )
West Sahel (3 stations) Marticorena et al. ( 2010 )
Sede Boker, Israel Derimian et al. ( 2006 )

Air quality networks
(USA, South
Europe, Asia, etc.)

Escudero et al. ( 2007 )and
Querol et al. ( 2009 )

Remote sensing from ground

AOD Angström,

AOD coarse mode

C Sun/sky photometer/

AERONET

Roughly 450 sites
(2009)

Holben et al. ( 2001 )

Radiometer Lampedusa Meloni et al. ( 2007 )

Satellite retrievals

DOD AVHRR/NOAA Northern Tropical

Atlantic Ocean

Evan and Mukhopadhyay
( 2010 )

DOD Dust Column

Conc.

C MODIS/Terra Atlantic Ocean Kaufman et al. ( 2005 )

AOD C Angström SeaWiFS and MODIS East Asia Hsu et al. ( 2004 )

DOD MODIS Global bright surfaces Ginoux et al. ( 2012 )

AOD MISR Global Martonchik et al. ( 2004 )

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