Assessment of natural and anthropogenic aerosol air pollution in the Middle East using MERRA-2, CAMS data assimilation products, and high-resolution WRF-Chem model simulations

Ukhov, Alexander; Mostamandi, Suleiman; da Silva, Arlindo; Flemming, Johannes; Alshehri, Yasser; Shevchenko, Illia; Stenchikov, Georgiy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9281-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 15

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9281-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9281-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 15

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06 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 06 Aug 2020

Assessment of natural and anthropogenic aerosol air pollution in the Middle East using MERRA-2, CAMS data assimilation products, and high-resolution WRF-Chem model simulations

Alexander Ukhov, Suleiman Mostamandi, Arlindo da Silva, Johannes Flemming, Yasser Alshehri, Illia Shevchenko, and Georgiy Stenchikov

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RC1: 'Review of acp-2020-17 by Ukhov et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Responses to Reviewer 1', Alexander Ukhov, 14 May 2020
RC2: 'Review of 'Assessment of natural and anthropogenic aerosol air pollution in the Middle East using MERRA-2, CAMS data assimilation products, and high-resolution WRF-Chem model simulations'', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewer 2', Alexander Ukhov, 14 May 2020

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AR by Alexander Ukhov on behalf of the Authors (18 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Jun 2020) by Yves Balkanski

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ED: Publish as is (09 Jul 2020) by Yves Balkanski

AR by Alexander Ukhov on behalf of the Authors (12 Jul 2020)

Short summary

The data assimilation products MERRA2 and CAMS are tested over the Middle East (ME) against in situ and satellite observations. For the first time, we compared the new MODIS aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieval, MAIAC, with the Deep Blue and Dark Target MODIS AOD. We conducted 2-year high-resolution WRF-Chem simulations with the most accurate OMI-HTAP SO₂ emissions to estimate the contribution of natural and anthropogenic aerosols to the PM pollution in the ME.