From (Saharan) dust till droplet

Today we performed two quite successful measurement flights including a fully functioning PICT! Both flight pattern included a vertical profile up to 8000 ft off the coast near Ragged Point where the dust layer was located. Afterwards a horizontal flight leg was performed to get full aerosol number size distributions and CCN spectra.
Observed CCN concentration lay in the order of 700 per cubic centimeter and the dust was even visible to the naked eye (see picture).
After the leg in 8000 ft we descended and went for cloud chasing. Fortunately, PICT worked very well and recorded lots of drops - even some lucky ones around 55 microns. Thus, last night's work was definitely worth it.

Thanks to Tina - we both edited this post.