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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7175-2017
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Research article
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16 Jun 2017
Research article |
| 16 Jun 2017
Spectral- and size-resolved mass absorption efficiency of mineral dust aerosols in the shortwave spectrum: a simulation chamber study
Lorenzo Caponi
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Department of Physics & INFN, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Paola Formenti
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Dario Massabó
Department of Physics & INFN, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Claudia Di Biagio
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Mathieu Cazaunau
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Edouard Pangui
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Servanne Chevaillier
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Gautier Landrot
Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, France
Meinrat O. Andreae
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Geology and Geophysics Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Konrad Kandler
Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 9, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Stuart Piketh
Climatology Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Thuraya Saeed
Science Department, College of Basic Education, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Al-Ardiya, Kuwait
Dave Seibert
Sallyport Global, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Earle Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Yves Balkanski
LSCE, CNRS UMR8212, CEA, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Paolo Prati
Department of Physics & INFN, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Jean-François Doussin
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Université Paris Diderot,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
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Short summary
This paper presents new laboratory measurements of the shortwave mass absorption efficiency (MAE) used by climate models for mineral dust of different origin and at different sizes. We found that small particles are more efficient, by given mass, in absorbing radiation, particularly at shorter wavelength. Because dust has high concentrations in the atmosphere, light absorption by mineral dust can be competitive to other absorbing atmospheric aerosols such as black and brown carbon.
This paper presents new laboratory measurements of the shortwave mass absorption efficiency...
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