Saharan Dust Detection in The Bahamas Using a Bistatic Camera Lidar

Amin Kabir, Nimmi Sharma, Seth Gagnon, Marcus Alcantara-Silva, George Odhiambo and John Barnes

Farm and Business - The Journal of the Caribbean Agro-Economic Society, 2024, vol. 16, issue 01

Abstract: A low cost, low complexity bistatic camera lidar system (Clidar) was used to study atmospheric aerosols and long-range dusts in The Bahamas. The thick aerosol layers over Nassau detected by Clidar above 1.0 km altitude are attributed to the passing Saharan dust on June 28 and June 30, 2020 (UTC) which agrees with NASA-GEOS-5 model. The heights of the layers detected by Clidar fall within the altitude range of the dust plumes that are typically found at 1-6 km above sea level. NOAA-HYSPLIT back trajectories for dust layers above 1 km indicate their origins near North Africa.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.348842

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