Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014001
Keywords
aerosol electrification; Cape Verde; Martian dust; atmospheric aerosol
Funding
- NERC [NE/G007268/1]
- KAN
- Instituto National De Meteorologia the Instituto Nacional De Meteorologia E Geofisica
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G007160/1, NE/G007268/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Electrification of atmospheric dust influences the coagulation, wet removal and fall speeds of dust particles. Alignment of dust particles can also occur in fair weather atmospheric electrical conditions if the particles are charged. However, very few electrical measurements made in elevated dust layers exist. Balloon-borne charge and particle instrumentation have been used to investigate the electrical properties of elevated Saharan dust layers. Soundings from the Cape Verde Islands, which experience frequent Saharan dust outbreaks, intercepted several dust layers. Two balloon soundings during summer 2009 detected dust particles in layers up to 4 km altitude. Simultaneous electrical measurements showed charge inside the dust layers, with a maximum measured charge density of 25 pC m(-3), sufficient to influence wet removal processes.
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