Impact of light-absorbing particles on snow albedo darkening and associated radiative forcing over high-mountain Asia: high-resolution WRF-Chem modeling and new satellite observations

Sarangi, Chandan; Qian, Yun; Rittger, Karl; Bormann, Kathryn J.; Liu, Ying; Wang, Hailong; Wan, Hui; Lin, Guangxing; Painter, Thomas H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7105-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7105-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7105-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 10

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27 May 2019

Research article |

| 27 May 2019

Impact of light-absorbing particles on snow albedo darkening and associated radiative forcing over high-mountain Asia: high-resolution WRF-Chem modeling and new satellite observations

Chandan Sarangi, Yun Qian, Karl Rittger, Kathryn J. Bormann, Ying Liu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wan, Guangxing Lin, and Thomas H. Painter

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Radiative forcing induced by deposition of light-absorbing particles (LAPs) on snow is an important surface forcing. Here, we have used high-resolution WRF-Chem (coupled with online snow–LAP–radiation model) simulations for 2013–2014 to estimate the spatial variation in LAP-induced snow albedo darkening effect in high-mountain Asia. Significant improvement in simulated LAP–snow properties with use of a higher spatial resolution for the same model configuration is illustrated over this region.