Retrieval of desert dust and carbonaceous aerosol emissions over Africa from POLDER/PARASOL products generated by the GRASP algorithm

Chen, Cheng; Dubovik, Oleg; Henze, Daven K.; Lapyonak, Tatyana; Chin, Mian; Ducos, Fabrice; Litvinov, Pavel; Huang, Xin; Li, Lei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12551-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 16

Research article

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30 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 30 Aug 2018

Retrieval of desert dust and carbonaceous aerosol emissions over Africa from POLDER/PARASOL products generated by the GRASP algorithm

Cheng Chen, Oleg Dubovik, Daven K. Henze, Tatyana Lapyonak, Mian Chin, Fabrice Ducos, Pavel Litvinov, Xin Huang, and Lei Li

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This paper introduces a method to use satellite-observed spectral AOD and AAOD to derive three types of aerosol emission sources simultaneously based on inverse modelling at a high spatial and temporal resolution. This study shows it is possible to estimate aerosol emissions and improve the atmospheric aerosol simulation using detailed aerosol optical and microphysical information from satellite observations.