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This is achieved by running the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) over a domain covering North Africa and the Central Mediterranean Basin. The simulations were configured using a gradual coupling strategy between the GOCART aerosol model and the Goddard radiation and microphysics schemes available in the WRF-Chem package. A preliminary evaluation of the model performances was conducted in order to verify its capability to correctly reproduce the amount of mineral dust loaded into the atmosphere within the spatial domain considered. To this purpose, we used a suite of experimental data from ground- and space-based remote sensing measurements. This comparison highlighted a model over-estimation of aerosol optical properties to the order of 20%. The evaluation of the desert dust impact on the radiation budget, achieved by comparing the uncoupled and the fully coupled (aerosol\u2013radiation\u2013clouds) simulation, shows that mineral dust induces a net (shortwave\u2013longwave) cooling effect to the order of \u221210 W m\u22122. If we consider the net dust radiative forcing, the presence of dust particles induces a small cooling effect at the top of the atmosphere (\u22121.2 W m\u22122) and a stronger cooling at the surface (\u221214.2 W m\u22122). At the same time, analysis of the perturbation on the surface energy budget yields a reduction of \u22127 W m\u22122 when considering the FULL-coupled simulation, a positive perturbation of +3 W m\u22122 when only considering microphysics coupling and \u221210.4 W m\u22122 when only considering radiation coupling. This last result indicates a sort of \u201csuperposition\u201d of direct, indirect and semi-direct effects of dust on the radiation budget. This study shows that the presence of dust aerosols significantly influences radiative and cloud properties and specifically the surface energy budget. 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