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Constraining global aerosol emissions using POLDER/PARASOL satellite remote sensing observations
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Chen, Cheng Dubovik, Oleg Henze, Daven K. Chin, Mian Lapyonok, Tatyana Schuster, Gregory L. Ducos, Fabrice Fuertes, David Litvinov, Pavel Lopatin, Anton Hu, Qiaoyun Torres, Benjamin Cruz |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | We invert global black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC) and desert dust (DD) aerosol emissions from POLDER/PARASOL spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) and aerosol absorption optical depth (AAOD) using the GEOS-Chem inverse modeling framework. Our inverse modeling framework uses standard a priori emissions to provide a posteriori emissions that are constrained by POLDER/PARASOL AODs and AAODs. The following global emission values were retrieved for the three aerosol components: 18.4 Tg yr−1 for BC, 109.9 Tg yr−1 for OC and 731.6 Tg yr−1 for DD for the year 2010. These values show a difference of +166.7 %, +184.0 % and −42.4 %, respectively, with respect to the a priori values of emission inventories used in “standard” GEOS-Chem runs. The model simulations using a posteriori emissions (i.e., retrieved emissions) provide values of 0.119 for global mean AOD and 0.0071 for AAOD at 550 nm, which are +13.3 % and +82.1 %, respectively, higher than the AOD and AAOD obtained using the a priori values of emissions. Additionally, the a posteriori model simulation of AOD, AAOD, single scattering albedo, Ångström exponent and absorption Ångström exponent show better agreement with independent AERONET, MODIS and OMI measurements than the a priori simulation. Thus, this study suggests that using satellite-constrained global aerosol emissions in aerosol transport models can improve the accuracy of simulated global aerosol properties. |
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| DOI | 10.5194/acp-2019-623 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2019-623/acp-2019-623.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/19/14585/2019/acp-19-14585-2019.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-623 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |