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Aerosol atmospheric rivers: climatology, event characteristics, and detection algorithm sensitivities
Sudip Chakraborty
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Bin Guan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Duane E. Waliser
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Arlindo M. da Silva
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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This study explores extreme aerosol transport events by aerosol atmospheric rivers (AARs) and shows the characteristics of individual AARs such as length, width, length-to-width ratio, transport strength, and dominant transport direction, the seasonal variations, the relationship to the spatial distribution of surface emissions, the vertical profiles of wind, aerosol mixing ratio, and aerosol mass fluxes, and the major planetary-scale aerosol transport pathways.
This study explores extreme aerosol transport events by aerosol atmospheric rivers (AARs) and...
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