Original monitoring of desert dust in African air masses transported over the Mediterranean Sea by quasi-Lagrangian drifting balloons and sounding balloons during the summer 2013 ChArMEx field campaign

François Dulac1, Jean-Baptiste Renard2, Pierre Durand3, Cyrielle Denjean4, Quentin Bourgeois5, Damien Vignelles2, Matthieu Jeannot2, Marc Mallet3 and Nicolas Verdier6, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (3)Laboratoire d'Aérologie - Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France, (4)CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (5)Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, CST, Toulouse Cedex 09, France