Articles | Volume 15, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9537-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9537-2015
Research article
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27 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 27 Aug 2015

Diurnal cycle of the dust instantaneous direct radiative forcing over the Arabian Peninsula

S. Osipov, G. Stenchikov, H. Brindley, and J. Banks

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The radiative effect of dust over the Arabian Peninsula for different surfaces and for a range of optical depths is calculated and tested using satellite and ground-based observations.
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