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The early summertime Saharan heat low: sensitivity of the radiation budget and atmospheric heating to water vapour and dust aerosol
Netsanet K. Alamirew
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Martin C. Todd
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Claire L. Ryder
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
John H. Marsham
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Leeds, UK
Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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This paper quantifies the radiative effects of dust and water vapour in the Saharan heat low. Dust has a warming effect at the top of the atmosphere while cooling the surface. Water vapour has a warming effect both at the top of atmosphere and the surface. We find dust and water vapour have similar effects in driving the variability in the top-of-atmosphere radiative budget, while dust has a stronger effect than water vapour in controlling day-to-day variability of the surface radiative budget.
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