Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth

Che, Huizheng; Gui, Ke; Xia, Xiangao; Wang, Yaqiang; Holben, Brent N.; Goloub, Philippe; Cuevas-Agulló, Emilio; Wang, Hong; Zheng, Yu; Zhao, Hujia; Zhang, Xiaoye

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 16

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21 Aug 2019

Research article |

| 21 Aug 2019

Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth

Huizheng Che, Ke Gui, Xiangao Xia, Yaqiang Wang, Brent N. Holben, Philippe Goloub, Emilio Cuevas-Agulló, Hong Wang, Yu Zheng, Hujia Zhao, and Xiaoye Zhang

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (25 Jul 2019) by Stelios Kazadzis

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A comprehensive assessment of the global and regional AOD trends over the past 37 years (1980–2016) is presented. AOD observations from both AERONET and CARSNET were used for the first time to assess the performance of the MERRA-2 AOD dataset on a global scale. Based on statistical models, we found the meteorological parameters explained a larger proportion of the regional AOD variability (20.4 %–2.8 %) when compared with emission factors (0 %%–56 %).