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Research article
| 
01 Feb 2018
Research article |
| 01 Feb 2018
| 01 Feb 2018
Nine-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia as revealed by CALIOP
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, 15236,
Greece
Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Physics,
University of Patras, Patras, 26500, Greece
Vassilis Amiridis
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, 15236,
Greece
Eleni Marinou
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, 15236,
Greece
Aristeidis K. Georgoulias
Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control
Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, Cyprus
Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Stavros Solomos
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, 15236,
Greece
Stelios Kazadzis
Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable
Development, National Observatory of Athens, Lofos Koufou, 15236
Penteli, Athens, Greece
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World
Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC) Dorfstrasse 33, 7260
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Julien Chimot
Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRS), Civil
Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Huizheng Che
Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese
Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing, 100081,
China
Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change,
Nanjing, 210093, China
Georgia Alexandri
Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control
Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Ioannis Binietoglou
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Magurele,
Romania
Vasiliki Daskalopoulou
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, 15236,
Greece
Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion,
Greece
Konstantinos A. Kourtidis
Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control
Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Gerrit de Leeuw
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Helsinki, Finland
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,
Finland
Ronald J. van der A
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt,
Netherlands
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.
We provide a 3-D climatology of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia, based on 9 years...
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