Aerosol radiative impact during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by an inter-continental Saharan dust outbreak – Part 2: Long-wave and  net dust direct radiative effect

Sicard, Michaël; Córdoba-Jabonero, Carmen; López-Cayuela, María-Ángeles; Ansmann, Albert; Comerón, Adolfo; Zorzano, María-Paz; Rodríguez-Gómez, Alejandro; Muñoz-Porcar, Constantino

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1921-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 3

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 1921–1937, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1921-2022

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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 1921–1937, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1921-2022

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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3

Research article 10 Feb 2022

Research article | 10 Feb 2022

Aerosol radiative impact during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by an inter-continental Saharan dust outbreak – Part 2: Long-wave and net dust direct radiative effect

Michaël Sicard et al.

Data sets

AERONET network NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/aerosols.html

Short summary

This paper completes the companion paper of Córdoba-Jabonero et al. (2021). We estimate the total direct radiative effect produced by mineral dust particles during the June 2019 mega-heatwave at two sites in Spain and Germany. The results show that the dust particles in the atmosphere contribute to cooling the surface (less radiation reaches the surface) and that the heatwave (parametrized by high surface and air temperatures) contributes to reducing this cooling.