Measurement-based climatology of aerosol direct radiative effect, its sensitivities, and uncertainties from a background southeast US site

Sherman, James P.; McComiskey, Allison

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4131-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4131-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4131-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 6

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26 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 26 Mar 2018

Measurement-based climatology of aerosol direct radiative effect, its sensitivities, and uncertainties from a background southeast US site

James P. Sherman and Allison McComiskey

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RC1: 'Review of "Measurement-based climatology of aerosol direct radiative effect, its sensitivities, and uncertainties from a background southeast U.S. site" by Sherman and McComiskey', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jul 2017
- AC3: 'Author Responses to RC1', James Sherman, 11 Jan 2018
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- AC2: 'Author Responses to RC2', James Sherman, 11 Jan 2018

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This paper highlights the first multi-year ground-based climatology of aerosol direct radiative effect (DRE) in the southeastern US Aerosol DRE at the co-located NOAA and NASA aerosol monitoring sites at Appalachian State University is approximately five times more negative during summer than winter. Aerosol DRE is most sensitive to aerosol optical depth (AOD). Use of MODIS-measured increases DRE uncertainty by a factor of 2.5 to 5.