Mineral dust effects on clouds and rainfall in the West African Sahel

Mineral dust effects on clouds and rainfall in the West African Sahel L. Klüser and T. Holzer-Popp German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Datacenter (DFD), Wessling, Germany University of Augsburg, Institute of Physics, Augsburg, Germany Received: 15 December 2009 – Accepted: 1 March 2010 – Published: 5 March 2010 Correspondence to: L. Klüser (lars.klueser@dlr.de) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

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