Electron microscopy of particles collected by different techniques from field measurements in the Moroccan Sahara during FRAGMENT 2019

An intensive field campaign between 4-30 September 2019 was conducted at a major source region on the edge of the Saharan desert in Morocco (29.83 °N 5.87 °W) in the context of the FRontiers in dust minerAloGical coMposition and its Effects upoN climaTe (FRAGMENT) project. Samples were collected with three different sampling techniques, namely: flat-plate sampler (FPS), free-wing impactor (FWI), and a micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI). Substrates in the MOUDI and FWI were collected two times a day with a typical sampling duration of a few minutes to avoid overloading the substrate for individual particle analysis. For the flat-plate sampler, the average exposure time was half a day. Here we present dataset of the elemental composition and morphology of more than 300,000 freshly emitted individual particles by performing offline analysis in the laboratory using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) coupled with Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry (EDX).