Articles | Volume 21, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15309-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15309-2021
Research article
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14 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 14 Oct 2021

Three-dimensional climatology, trends, and meteorological drivers of global and regional tropospheric type-dependent aerosols: insights from 13 years (2007–2019) of CALIOP observations

Ke Gui, Huizheng Che, Yu Zheng, Hujia Zhao, Wenrui Yao, Lei Li, Lei Zhang, Hong Wang, Yaqiang Wang, and Xiaoye Zhang

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  • RC1: 'Comment on acp-2021-467', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jul 2021
  • RC2: 'Comment on acp-2021-467', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jul 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Huizheng Che on behalf of the Authors (06 Sep 2021)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (24 Sep 2021) by Stelios Kazadzis
AR by Huizheng Che on behalf of the Authors (24 Sep 2021)
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Short summary
This study utilized the globally gridded aerosol extinction data from CALIOP during 2007–2019 to investigate the 3D climatology, trends, and meteorological drivers of tropospheric type-dependent aerosols. Results revealed that the planetary boundary layer (PBL) and the free troposphere contribute 62.08 % and 37.92 %, respectively, of the global tropospheric TAOD. Trends in CALIOP-derived aerosol loading, in particular those partitioned in the PBL, can be explained to a large extent by meteorology.
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