Properties of transported African mineral dust aerosols in the Mediterranean region

(1) CNRS/UPEC/UPD/IPSL, LISA, Creteil, France (paola.formenti@lisa.u-pec.fr), (2) Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany, (3) CNRS, DT-INSU, Meudon, France, (4) Laboratoire d’Optique Atmospherique (LOA), Lille, France, (5) CNRM, MeteoFrance, Toulouse, France, (6) Laboratoire de Meteorologie Physique (LaMP), Clermont-Ferrand, France , (7) Laboratoire d’Aerologie (LA), Toulouse, France , (8) University of Genoa, Department of Physics & INFN, Genoa, Italy