In this work we present an analysis of aerosol microphysical properties during a mineral dust event taking advantage of the combination of different state-of-the art retrieval techniques applied to active and passive remote sensing measurements and the evaluation of some of those techniques using independent data acquired from in-situ aircraft measurements.

- "María José Granados-Muñoz1,2,a, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda1,2, Darrel Baumgardner3, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado1,2, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez4,5, Francisco Navas-Guzmán6, Igor Veselovskii7, Hassan Lyamani1,2, Antonio Valenzuela1,2, Francisco José Olmo1,2, Gloria Titos1,2, Javier Andrey8,b, Anatoli Chaikovsky9, Oleg Dubovik10, Manuel Gil-Ojeda8, and Lucas Alados-Arboledas1,2"