Monitoring present-day Saharan dust above the ocean surface

Jan-Berend Willem Stuut1,2, Catarina Guerreiro3, Blanda Matzenbacher2,4, Michelle van der Does5, Hannah Croysdill2,6 and Janne Koornneef7, (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, 1790, Netherlands, (2)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Earth Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, FCUL - Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, (4)Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands, (6)NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 't Horntje, Texel, Netherlands, (7)VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands