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Proceeding Paper

An Overview of the ASKOS Campaign in Cabo Verde †

by
Eleni Marinou
1,*,
Peristera Paschou
1,2,
Ioanna Tsikoudi
1,3,
Alexandra Tsekeri
1,
Vasiliki Daskalopoulou
1,
Dimitra Kouklaki
4,
Nikos Siomos
1,
Vasileios Spanakis-Misirlis
1,
Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri
1,2,
Thanasis Georgiou
1,
Eleni Drakaki
1,5,
Anna Kampouri
1,6,
Kyriaki Papachristopoulou
1,4,
Ioanna Mavropoulou
1,
Sotiris Mallios
1,
Emmanouil Proestakis
1,
Antonis Gkikas
1,
Iliana Koutsoupi
1,2,
Ioannis Panagiotis Raptis
7,
Stelios Kazadzis
8,
Holger Baars
9,
Athina Floutsi
9,
Razvan Pirloaga
10,
Anca Nemuc
10,
Franco Marenco
11,
Maria Kezoudi
11,
Alkistis Papetta
11,
Grisa Močnik
12,
Jesús Yus Díez
12,
Claire L. Ryder
13,
Natalie Ratcliffe
13,
Konrad Kandler
14,
Aryasree Sudharaj
14 and
Vassilis Amiridis
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IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens (NOA), 15236 Athens, Greece
2
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
3
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece
4
Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece
5
Department of Geography, Harokopion University of Athens, 17671 Athens, Greece
6
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
7
IERSD, National Observatory of Athens, 15236 Athens, Greece
8
Physics and Meteorology Observatorium of Davos, World Radiation Center, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
9
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
10
National Institute of Research & Development for Optoelectronics (INOE), 77125 Magurele, Romania
11
The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
12
Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Nova Gorica, 5600 Ajdovščina, Slovenia
13
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6ET, UK
14
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
 
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Presented at the 16th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics—COMECAP 2023, Athens, Greece, 25–29 September 2023.
Environ. Sci. Proc. 2023, 26(1), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026200
Published: 21 September 2023
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics—COMECAP 2023)
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Abstract

In the framework of the ESA-NASA Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC), the ASKOS experiment was implemented during the summer and autumn of 2021 and 2022. ASKOS comprised roughly 9 weeks of measurements in the Saharan dust outflow towards the North Atlantic, with operations conducted from the Cabo Verde Islands. Through its unprecedented dataset of synergistic measurements in the region, ASKOS will allow for the calibration and validation of the aerosol/cloud product from Aeolus and the preparation of the terrain for EarthCARE cal/val activities. Moreover, ASKOS marks a turning point in our ability to study Saharan dust properties and the processes affecting its atmospheric transport, as well as the link to other components of the Earth’s system, such as the effect of dust particles on cloud formation over the Eastern Atlantic and the effect of large and giant particles on radiation. This is possible through the synergy of diverse observations acquired during the experiment, which include intense 24/7 ground-based aerosol, cloud, wind, and radiation remote sensing measurements, and UAV-based aerosol in situ measurements within the Saharan air layer, up to 5.3 km altitude, offering particle size-distributions up to 40 μm as well as sample collection for mineralogical analysis. We provide an outline of the novel measurements along with the main scientific objectives of ASKOS. The campaign data will be publicly available by September of 2023 through the EVDC portal (ESA Validation Data Center).
Keywords: experimental campaign; remote sensing; lidar; radar; radiosondes; radiation; desert dust; ASKOS experimental campaign; remote sensing; lidar; radar; radiosondes; radiation; desert dust; ASKOS

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Marinou, E.; Paschou, P.; Tsikoudi, I.; Tsekeri, A.; Daskalopoulou, V.; Kouklaki, D.; Siomos, N.; Spanakis-Misirlis, V.; Voudouri, K.A.; Georgiou, T.; et al. An Overview of the ASKOS Campaign in Cabo Verde. Environ. Sci. Proc. 2023, 26, 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026200

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Marinou E, Paschou P, Tsikoudi I, Tsekeri A, Daskalopoulou V, Kouklaki D, Siomos N, Spanakis-Misirlis V, Voudouri KA, Georgiou T, et al. An Overview of the ASKOS Campaign in Cabo Verde. Environmental Sciences Proceedings. 2023; 26(1):200. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026200

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Marinou, Eleni, Peristera Paschou, Ioanna Tsikoudi, Alexandra Tsekeri, Vasiliki Daskalopoulou, Dimitra Kouklaki, Nikos Siomos, Vasileios Spanakis-Misirlis, Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri, Thanasis Georgiou, and et al. 2023. "An Overview of the ASKOS Campaign in Cabo Verde" Environmental Sciences Proceedings 26, no. 1: 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026200

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Marinou, E., Paschou, P., Tsikoudi, I., Tsekeri, A., Daskalopoulou, V., Kouklaki, D., Siomos, N., Spanakis-Misirlis, V., Voudouri, K. A., Georgiou, T., Drakaki, E., Kampouri, A., Papachristopoulou, K., Mavropoulou, I., Mallios, S., Proestakis, E., Gkikas, A., Koutsoupi, I., Raptis, I. P., ... Amiridis, V. (2023). An Overview of the ASKOS Campaign in Cabo Verde. Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 26(1), 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026200

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