On the use of a satellite remote-sensing-based approach for determining  aerosol direct radiative effect over land: a case study over China

Sundström, A.-M.; Arola, A.; Kolmonen, P.; Xue, Y.; de Leeuw, G.; Kulmala, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-505-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-505-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-505-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

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15 Jan 2015

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2015

On the use of a satellite remote-sensing-based approach for determining aerosol direct radiative effect over land: a case study over China

A.-M. Sundström, A. Arola, P. Kolmonen, Y. Xue, G. de Leeuw, and M. Kulmala

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Short summary

In this work, a satellite-based approach to derive the aerosol direct shortwave (SW) radiative effect (ADRE) is studied. The method is based on using coincident satellite observations of SW fluxes and aerosol optical depths (AODs). The key findings of this study are that using normalized values of observed fluxes improves the estimates of ADRE and aerosol-free TOA fluxes as compared to a model. The method was applied over eastern China where the satellite-based mean ADRE of -5Wm-2 was obtained.