The R/V Meteor is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and is operated by the University of Hamburg. The cruise took place in April - May 2013. The cruise area included a latitudinal transect in Tropical Atlantic. Six hundred fifty five (655) measurement series spanning 24 days were acquired during the cruise.
Dr. Stefan Kinne from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology ( Hamburg, Germany) was the Principal Investigator for optical depth measurements. Dr. Gaby Raedel from the same institution operated a sunphotometer onboard.
Kanitz, T., R. Engelmann, B. Heinold, H. Baars, A. Skupin, and A. Ansmann (2014), Tracking the Saharan Air Layer with shipborne lidar across the tropical Atlantic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058780.
