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Research article
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12 Apr 2018
Research article |
| 12 Apr 2018
| 12 Apr 2018
An assessment of aerosol optical properties from remote-sensing observations and regional chemistry–climate coupled models over Europe
Laura Palacios-Peña
Department of Physics, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Rocío Baró
Department of Physics, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Section Chemical Weather Forecasts, Division Data/Methods/Modeling, ZAMG – Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik,
Vienna, Austria
Alexander Baklanov
World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Alessandra Balzarini
Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE), Milan, Italy
Dominik Brunner
Laboratory for Air Pollution and Environmental Technology, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and
Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Renate Forkel
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Atmosphärische
Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Marcus Hirtl
Section Chemical Weather Forecasts, Division Data/Methods/Modeling, ZAMG – Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik,
Vienna, Austria
Luka Honzak
BO-MO d.o.o, Ljubljana Slovenia
José María López-Romero
Department of Physics, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Juan Pedro Montávez
Department of Physics, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Juan Luis Pérez
Environmental Software and Modelling Group, Computer Science School – Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Guido Pirovano
Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE), Milan, Italy
Roberto San José
Environmental Software and Modelling Group, Computer Science School – Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Wolfram Schröder
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Johannes Werhahn
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Atmosphärische
Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Ralf Wolke
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Rahela Žabkar
Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Data sets
Aerosol Robotic Network Level 2 NASA (Goddard space flight center) https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/type_piece_of_map_opera_v2_new
The MODIS Aerosol products NASA (MODIS Atmosphere) https://modis-atmosphere.gsfc.nasa.gov/products/aerosol
Short summary
Atmospheric aerosols modify the radiative budget of the Earth, and it is therefore mandatory to have an accurate representation of their optical properties for understanding their climatic role. This work therefore evaluates the skill in the representation of optical properties by different remote-sensing sensors and regional online coupled chemistry–climate models over Europe.
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