Retrieving the global distribution of the threshold of wind erosion from satellite data and implementing it into the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory land–atmosphere model (GFDL AM4.0/LM4.0)

Pu, Bing; Ginoux, Paul; Guo, Huan; Hsu, N. Christina; Kimball, John; Marticorena, Beatrice; Malyshev, Sergey; Naik, Vaishali; O'Neill, Norman T.; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos; Paireau, Juliette; Prospero, Joseph M.; Shevliakova, Elena; Zhao, Ming

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-55-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-55-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-55-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

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03 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 03 Jan 2020

Retrieving the global distribution of the threshold of wind erosion from satellite data and implementing it into the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory land–atmosphere model (GFDL AM4.0/LM4.0)

Bing Pu, Paul Ginoux, Huan Guo, N. Christina Hsu, John Kimball, Beatrice Marticorena, Sergey Malyshev, Vaishali Naik, Norman T. O'Neill, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Juliette Paireau, Joseph M. Prospero, Elena Shevliakova, and Ming Zhao

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript by Pu et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review of Bing Pu et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 May 2019
AC1: 'Reply to reviewers' comments', Bing Pu, 28 Oct 2019

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Nov 2019) by Yves Balkanski

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Dust emission initiates when surface wind velocities exceed a threshold depending on soil and surface characteristics and varying spatially and temporally. Climate models widely use wind erosion thresholds. The climatological monthly global distribution of the wind erosion threshold, V_threshold, is retrieved using satellite and reanalysis products and improves the simulation of dust frequency, magnitude, and the seasonal cycle in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory land–atmosphere model.