Overview of aerosol optical properties over southern West Africa from DACCIWA aircraft measurements

Denjean, Cyrielle; Bourrianne, Thierry; Burnet, Frederic; Mallet, Marc; Maury, Nicolas; Colomb, Aurélie; Dominutti, Pamela; Brito, Joel; Dupuy, Régis; Sellegri, Karine; Schwarzenboeck, Alfons; Flamant, Cyrille; Knippertz, Peter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4735-2020

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22 Apr 2020

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Overview of aerosol optical properties over southern West Africa from DACCIWA aircraft measurements

Cyrielle Denjean, Thierry Bourrianne, Frederic Burnet, Marc Mallet, Nicolas Maury, Aurélie Colomb, Pamela Dominutti, Joel Brito, Régis Dupuy, Karine Sellegri, Alfons Schwarzenboeck, Cyrille Flamant, and Peter Knippertz

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RC1: 'Referee comment on “Light absorption of aerosols over Southern West Africa” by Cyrielle Denjean et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Referee comment on “Light absorption of aerosols over Southern West Africa” by Cyrielle Denjean et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Oct 2019
AC1: 'Response to referees', Cyrielle Denjean, 06 Dec 2019

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 Mar 2020) by Andreas Petzold

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This paper presents aircraft measurements of aerosol optical properties over southern West Africa. We show that aerosol optical properties in the boundary layer were dominated by a persistent biomass burning loading from the Southern Hemisphere. Biomass burning aerosols were more light absorbing that those previously measured in other areas (Amazonia, North America). Our study suggests that lens-coated black carbon particles were the dominant absorber for these biomass burning aerosols.