Comparison of key absorption and optical properties between pure and transported anthropogenic dust over East and Central Asia

Bi, Jianrong; Huang, Jianping; Holben, Brent; Zhang, Guolong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15501-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15501-2016

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Anthropogenic dust and its climate impact

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Research article

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15 Dec 2016

Research article |

| 15 Dec 2016

Comparison of key absorption and optical properties between pure and transported anthropogenic dust over East and Central Asia

Jianrong Bi, Jianping Huang, Brent Holben, and Guolong Zhang

Data sets

AERONET dataset Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Short summary

Dating absorptive capacity of Asian dust is still an outstanding issue. In this study, we identify two types of Asian dust: Pure Dust (PDU) and Transported Anthropogenic Dust (TDU). Overall average SSA, ASY, Re, and Ri at 550 nm for PDU are 0.935, 0.742, 1.526, and 0.00226, respectively, with 0.921, 0.723, 1.521, and 0.00364 for TDU. Our results promise to update and improve accuracy of Asian dust characteristics in present-day remote sensing applications and regional climate models.