Aerosol optical properties over Europe: an evaluation of the AQMEII Phase 3 simulations against satellite observations

Palacios-Peña, Laura; Jiménez-Guerrero, Pedro; Baró, Rocío; Balzarini, Alessandra; Bianconi, Roberto; Curci, Gabriele; Landi, Tony Christian; Pirovano, Guido; Prank, Marje; Riccio, Angelo; Tuccella, Paolo; Galmarini, Stefano

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2965-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 5

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 2965–2990, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2965-2019

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Special issue: Global and regional assessment of intercontinental transport...

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 2965–2990, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2965-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 5

Research article 07 Mar 2019

Research article | 07 Mar 2019

Aerosol optical properties over Europe: an evaluation of the AQMEII Phase 3 simulations against satellite observations

Laura Palacios-Peña et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2965-2019-supplement

Data sets

MODIS atmosphere NASA Official https://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/MOD04_L2/acquiring.html

Short summary

The main uncertainties regarding the estimation of changes in the Earth’s energy budget are related to the role of atmospheric aerosols. Our study evaluates the representation of aerosol optical properties by different atmospheric chemistry models against remote-sensing observations in order to reduce this uncertainty. Results show that the representation of aerosol optical properties is strongly dependent on the used model.