Aerosol load characterization over South-East Italy for one year of AERONET sun-photometer measurements

Finally, it is shown that dust outbreaks do not significantly affect the seasonal evolution of aerosol parameters, and that sunphotometry retrievals along dust events are in satisfactory accord with experimental findings indicating that moderately-absorbing (0.005≤k≤0.05) dust particles with a high content of illite are mainly advected over the Mediterranean basin during Sahara dust storms.