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

Related authors

Multi-model analysis of the impact of water vapor on the radiative forcing of volcanic aerosols after the 2022 Hunga Eruption
Ilaria Quaglia, Daniele Visioni, Ewa M. Bednarz, Yunqian Zhu, Georgiy Stenchikov, Valentina Aquila, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Graham W. Mann, Yifeng Peng, Takashi Sekiya, Simone Tilmes, Xinyue Wang, Shingo Watanabe, Pengfei Yu, Jun Zhang, Wandi Yu, and Zhihong Zhuo
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 7677–7704, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-7677-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-7677-2026, 2026
Short summary
Strong springtime increase of ice-nucleating particle concentration in the Rocky Mountains
Larissa Lacher, A. Gannet Hallar, Ian B. McCubbin, Joey Bail, Karl D. Froyd, Justin Jacquot, Xiaoli Shen, Christopher Rapp, Ottmar Möhler, and Daniel Cziczo
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 6703–6726, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-6703-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-6703-2026, 2026
Short summary
Uncertainties of SAI efficiency and impacts depending on the complexity of the aerosol microphysical model
Simone Tilmes, Daniele Visioni, Ilaria Quaglia, Yunqian Zhu, Charles G. Bardeen, Francis Vitt, and Pengfei Yu
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 2649–2666, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-2649-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-2649-2026, 2026
Short summary
Strong primary contribution to brown carbon light absorption in Tibet and urban areas: insights based on in situ measurements
Wenhui Zhao, Weiwei Hu, Zhaoce Liu, Tianle Pan, Tingting Feng, Jun Wang, Yiyu Cai, Lin Liang, Shan Huang, Bin Yuan, Nan Ma, Min Shao, Guohua Zhang, Xinhui Bi, Xinming Wang, and Pengfei Yu
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 135–154, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-135-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-135-2026, 2026
Short summary
Injection near the stratopause mitigates the stratospheric side effects of sulfur-based climate intervention
Pengfei Yu, Yifeng Peng, Karen H. Rosenlof, Ru-Shan Gao, Robert W. Portmann, Martin Ross, Eric Ray, Jianchun Bian, Simone Tilmes, and Owen B. Toon
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 18449–18460, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-18449-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-18449-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Adebiyi, A. A. and Kok, J. F.: Climate models miss most of the coarse dust in the atmosphere, Sci. Adv., 6, eaaz9507, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz9507, 2020. 
Andreae, M. O.: Climatic effects of changing atmospheric aerosol levels, World Surv. Climatol., 16, 347–398, 1995. 
Andreae, M. O., Charlson, R. J., Bruynseels, F., Storms, H., Van Grieken, R., and Maenhaut, W.: Internal mixture of sea salt, silicates, and excess sulfate in marine aerosols, Science, 232, 1620–1623, 1986. 
Appel, O., Köllner, F., Dragoneas, A., Hünig, A., Molleker, S., Schlager, H., Mahnke, C., Weigel, R., Port, M., Schulz, C., Drewnick, F., Vogel, B., Stroh, F., and Borrmann, S.: Chemical analysis of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) with emphasis on secondary aerosol particles using aircraft based in situ aerosol mass spectrometry, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-92, in review, 2022. 
Arimoto, R., Duce, R. A., Ray, B. J., Ellis, W. G., Cullen, J. D., and Merrill, J. T.: Trace-Elements in the Atmosphere over the North-Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 100, 1199–1213, 1995. 
Download
Short summary
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.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint