## 4 Summary and Conclusions
Results are given at 12:00 UTC of each day; Figure S10: Ge-ographical dis-tribution of: the daily mean ab-sorbed solar ra-diation (in W/m\({}^{2}\)) at the top of at-mosphere (left column, i), in the atmosphere middle column, ii) and at the Earths surface (right column, iii) for the first (first row, a), second (second row, b) and third (third row, c) day of the dust episode that took place during 16-18 June 2016 over the Mediterranean Basin; Figure S11: Ge-ographical dis-tribution of the dust direct radial-ative effects ex-pressed in per-cent terms (%) of the correspond-ing radiative fluxes (consider-ing all aerosols), namely of the absorbed solar radiation: at the top of atmos-phere (left col-umn, i), in the atmosphere (middle column, ii) and at the Earths surface (right column, iii) for the first (first row, a), second (second row, b) and third (third row, c) day (at 12:00 UTC) of the dust episode that took place during 16-18 June 2016 over the Medi-terranean Basin; Figure S12: Vertical cross-sections of the change in vertical velocity (in m/s) should the DA induced buoyancy (shownin Figure 8i-a,b,c) persist for 10 min, during the first day (a, 16 June 2016), second (b, 17 June 2016) and third (c, 18/06/2016) days of the dust episode that took place during 16-18 June 2016 over the Mediterranean Basin. The results are given along the slant paths across the African dust export into the Mediterranean Basin (shown on the map of DOD, Figures 5, 6 and 7e, respectively); Figure S13: Time series of the 3-hourly mean DOD (red line) and associated dust SSA (blue line) averaged over the Mediterranean areas (yellow frame in Figure 8) affected by the dust export during the DAEC from 16 to 18 June 2016. Conceptualization, N.H. and M.G. ; methodology, N.H. and M.G. ; software, M.G., M.-B.K.-C., C.M., I.V. and N.H.; formal analysis, M.G. ; investigation, N.H. and M.G. ; resources, N.H., M.G., M.-B.K.-C. and M.S. ; data curation, N.H., M.G., M.-B.K.-C. and M.S. ; writing--original draft preparation, M.G. ; writing--review and editing, N.H., N.M., M.-B.K.-C., C.L., C.M., I.V., M.S. and M.G. ; visualization, M.S. and M.G. ; supervision, N.H.; project administration, N.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The research work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the 3 rd Call for HFRI PhD Fellowships (Fellowship Number: 6353). Not applicable. The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. [PERSON] was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the \"2 nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers\" (project acronym: ATLANTAS, project no. 544). [PERSON] was supported by the project \"Dioni: Computing Infrastructure for Big-Data Processing and Analysis.\" (MIS No. 5047222) which is implemented under the Action \"Reinforcement of the Research and Innovation Infrastructure\", funded by the Operational Programme \"Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation\" (NSRF 2014-2020) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund). The authors declare no conflict of interest.