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Column aerosol optical properties and aerosol radiative forcing during a serious haze-fog month over North China Plain in 2013 based on ground-based sunphotometer measurements

Che

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9458-3387

¹ Xia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4187-6311

² Zhu

² Li

³ Dubovik

⁴ Holben

⁵ Goloub

⁴ Chen

² Estelles

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5013-2173

⁶ Cuevas-Agulló

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-8302

⁷ Blarel

⁴ Wang

¹ Zhao

¹ Zhang

⁸ Wang

¹ Sun

¹ Tao

¹ ⁹ Zhang

¹ Shi

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Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing, 100081, China

Laboratory for Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China Beijing, 100029, China

Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China

Laboratoire d'Optique Amosphérique, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Biospheric Sciences Branch, Code 923, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Dept. Fisica de la Terra i Termodinamica, Universitat de Valencia, C/ Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Spain

Centro de Investigación Atmosférica de Izaña, AEMET, 38001 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Institute of Urban Meteorology ,CMA, Beijing, 100089, China

College of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China

State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

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In January 2013, North China Plain experienced several serious haze events. Cimel sunphotometer measurements at seven sites over rural, suburban and urban regions of North China Plain from 1 to 30 January 2013 were used to further our understanding of spatial-temporal variation of aerosol optical parameters and aerosol radiative forcing (ARF). It was found that Aerosol Optical Depth at 500 nm (AOD500 nm) during non-pollution periods at all stations was lower than 0.30 and increased significantly to greater than 1.00 as pollution events developed. The Angstrom exponent (Alpha) was larger than 0.80 for all stations most of the time. AOD500 nm averages increased from north to south during both polluted and non-polluted periods on the three urban sites in Beijing. The fine mode AOD during pollution periods is about a factor of 2.5 times larger than that during the non-pollution period at urban sites but a factor of 5.0 at suburban and rural sites. The fine mode fraction of AOD675 nm was higher than 80% for all sites during January 2013. The absorption AOD675 nm at rural sites was only about 0.01 during pollution periods, while ~0.03–0.07 and 0.01–0.03 during pollution and non-pollution periods at other sites, respectively. Single scattering albedo varied between 0.87 and 0.95 during January 2013 over North China Plain. The size distribution showed an obvious tri-peak pattern during the most serious period. The fine mode effective radius in the pollution period was about 0.01–0.08 μm larger than during non-pollution periods, while the coarse mode radius in pollution periods was about 0.06–0.38 μm less than that during non-pollution periods. The total, fine and coarse mode particle volumes varied by about 0.06–0.34 μm3, 0.03–0.23 μm3, and 0.03–0.10 μm3, respectively, throughout January 2013. During the most intense period (1–16 January), ARF at the surface exceeded −50 W m−2, −180 W m−2, and −200 W m−2 at rural, suburban, and urban sites, respectively. The ARF readings at the top of the atmosphere were approximately −30 W m−2 in rural and −40–60 W m−2 in urban areas. Positive ARF at the top of the atmosphere at the Huimin suburban site was found to be different from others as a result of the high surface albedo due to snow cover.

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