GEWEX News Features Dust Data from ARM Mobile Facility Deployment

 
Published: 22 March 2007

Data from the recent deployment of the ARM Mobile Facility are featured in the February issue of GEWEX News.

The February 2007 issue (Vol. 17, No. 1) of GEWEX News features early results from special observing periods of the African Monsoon Mutidisciplinary Analysis, including data obtained by the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF). The AMF was stationed in the central Sahel from January through December 2006, with the primary facility at the Niamey airport, and an ancillary site in Banizoumbou. The AMF recorded a major dust storm that passed through the area in March, and combined with simultaneous satellite observations, allowed scientists to study the effects of dust on the radiant energy budget of an atmospheric column.