Articles | Volume 22, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13659-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13659-2022
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21 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 21 Oct 2022

Global distribution of Asian, Middle Eastern, and North African dust simulated by CESM1/CARMA

Siying Lian, Luxi Zhou, Daniel M. Murphy, Karl D. Froyd, Owen B. Toon, and Pengfei Yu

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ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols, Version 2 Wofsy et al. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1925

AERONET Data Download Tool NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/webtool_aod_v3

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Parameterizations of dust lifting and microphysical properties of dust in climate models are still subject to large uncertainty. Here we use a sectional aerosol climate model to investigate the global vertical distributions of the dust. Constrained by a suite of observations, the model suggests that, although North African dust dominates global dust mass loading at the surface, the relative contribution of Asian dust increases with altitude and becomes dominant in the upper troposphere.
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