Nine-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia as revealed by CALIOP

Proestakis, Emmanouil; Amiridis, Vassilis; Marinou, Eleni; Georgoulias, Aristeidis K.; Solomos, Stavros; Kazadzis, Stelios; Chimot, Julien; Che, Huizheng; Alexandri, Georgia; Binietoglou, Ioannis; Daskalopoulou, Vasiliki; Kourtidis, Konstantinos A.; de Leeuw, Gerrit; van der A, Ronald J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1337-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1337–1362, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1337-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1337–1362, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1337-2018

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

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

Research article

01 Feb 2018

Research article | 01 Feb 2018

Nine-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia as revealed by CALIOP

Emmanouil Proestakis et al.

Data sets

LIVAS database ESA http://lidar.space.noa.gr:8080/livas/

CALIPSO data ICARE Data and Services Center http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/archive

MODIS data NASA https://giovanni.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

Short summary

We provide a 3-D climatology of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia, based on 9 years of CALIPSO observations and an EARLINET methodology. The results provide the horizontal, vertical and seasonal distribution of dust aerosols over SE Asia along with the change in dust transport pathways. The dataset is unique for its potential applications, including evaluation and assimilation activities in atmospheric simulations and the estimation of the climatic impact of dust aerosols.