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Wen W, Deng Z, Ma X, Xing Y, Pan C, Liu Y, Zhang H, Tharaka WAND, Hua T, Shen L. Analysis of the synergistic benefits of typical technologies for pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the iron and steel industry in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Sci Rep 2024; 14:12413. [PMID: 38816563 PMCID: PMC11139909 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63338-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2024] [Accepted: 05/28/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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With its high energy consumption and pollutant emissions, the iron and steel industry is a significant source of air pollution and carbon emissions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region. To improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a series of policies involving ultra-low emission, synergistic reduction of pollution, and carbon application have been implemented in the region. This study has assessed air pollutant and CO2 emission patterns in the iron and steel industry of the region by employing co-control effects coordinate system, marginal abatement cost curve, and numerical modeling, along with the synergistic benefits of typical technologies. The results have demonstrated that: (1) the intensive production activities pertinent to iron and steel enterprises has contributed greatly to the emission in Tangshan and Handan, where the sintering process is the main source of SO2, NOx, PM2.5, and CO, accounting for 64.86%, 55.15%, 29.98%, and 46.43% of the total emissions, respectively. (2) Among the typical pollution control and reduction measures, industrial restructuring and adjustment of the energy-resource structure have led to the greatest effects on emission reduction. Technologies exhibiting great potential in emission reduction and high-cost efficiency such as Blast Furnace Top Gas Recovery Turbine Unit (TRT) need to be promoted. (3) In Tangshan city with the highest level of steel production, the iron and steel production activities contributed to the concentration of 30.51% of PM2.5, 50.67% of SO2, and 42.54% of NO2 during the non-heating period. During the heating period, pollutants pertinent to the combustion of fossil energy for heating have increased, while iron and steel induced emissions have decreased to 23.7%, 34.32%, and 29.13%, respectively. By 2030, it is speculated that the contribution of the iron and steel industry to air quality will be significantly decreased as result of successful implementation of ultra-low emission policies and typical synergistic reduction technologies.
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- Wei Wen
- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC), Beijing, 100081, China.
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China
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Wei C, Zhao P, Wang Y, Wang Y, Mo S, Zhou Y. Aerosol influence on cloud macrophysical and microphysical properties over the Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent regions. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:30174-30195. [PMID: 38600373 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-33247-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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This study uses aerosol optical depth (AOD) and cloud properties data to investigate the influence of aerosol on the cloud properties over the Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent regions. The study regions are divided as the western part of the Tibetan Plateau (WTP), the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), and the Sichuan Basin (SCB). All three regions show significant cloud effects under low aerosol loading conditions. In WTP, under low aerosol loading conditions, the effective radius of liquid cloud particles (LREF) decreases with the increase of aerosol loading, while the effective radius of ice cloud particles (IREF) and cloud top height (CTH) increase during the cold season. Increased aerosol loading might inhibit the development of warm rain processes, transporting more cloud droplets above the freezing level and promoting ice cloud development. During the warm season, under low aerosol loading conditions, both the cloud microphysical (LREF and IREF) and macrophysical (cloud top height and cloud fraction) properties increase with the increase of aerosol loading, likely due to higher dust aerosol concentration in this region. In IGP, both LREF and IREF increase with the increase in aerosol loading during the cold season. In SCB, LREF increases with the increase in aerosol loading, while IREF decreases, possibly due to the higher hygroscopic aerosol concentration in the SCB during the cold season. Meteorological conditions also modulate the aerosol-cloud interaction. Under different convective available potential energy (CAPE) and relative humidity (RH) conditions, the influence of aerosol on clouds varies in the three regions. Under low CAPE and RH conditions, the relationship between LREF and aerosol in both the cold and warm seasons is opposite in the WTP: LREF decreases with the increase of aerosol in the cold season, while it increases in the warm season. This discrepancy may be attributed to a difference in the moisture condition between the cold and warm seasons in this region. In general, the influence of aerosols on cloud properties in TP and its adjacent regions is characterized by significant nonlinearity and spatial variability, which is likely related to the differences in aerosol types and meteorological conditions between different regions.
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- Chengqiang Wei
- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Plain Urban Meteorology and Environment Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China
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- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Plain Urban Meteorology and Environment Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China.
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- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Plain Urban Meteorology and Environment Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China
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- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Plain Urban Meteorology and Environment Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China
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- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Plain Urban Meteorology and Environment Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China
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- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Plain Urban Meteorology and Environment Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China
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Seong D, Yoon J, Choo GH, Chang DY, Yang GH, Lee DG. Aerosol radiative forcing of forest fires unprecedented in South Korea (2022) captured by Korean geostationary satellites, GK-2A AMI and GK-2B GEMS. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 346:123464. [PMID: 38301822 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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The worst forest fires in Korean history broke out on March 4, 2022 and lasted for ten days. In order to monitor the catastrophic forest fires, Geostationary Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (GK)-2 A Advanced Meteorological Imager (AMI) and GK-2B Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) data were used in this study. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) irretrievable for the biomass-burning aerosols produced with water vapor classified as could-contaminated, was reconstructed by ultraviolet aerosol index (UVAI). Afterward, aerosol radiative forcing (ARF) at TOA was finally estimated by the correlation of AOD and surface albedo with ARF. Most of the aerosols drifted toward the East Sea by the prevailing westerly winds, and caused a cooling effect on the atmosphere with a maximum daily average radiative forcing of -69.28 Wm-2. Furthermore, the fire-prone conditions for the unprecedented forest fires were discussed in detail as following aspects; 1) the most severe drought caused by a "triple-dip" La Niña; 2) pressure patterns and topographical features that generate strong winds; 3) coniferous forests prone to fires; and 4) increased human activity following the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination. This study demonstrated that the rapid and effective ARF estimation based on the satellite remote sensing can contribute to a better understanding of ARF in the Earth's radiation budget for the global forest fires that will be more frequent, intense, and longer-lasting due to the human-caused climate and environment changes.
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- Daekyeong Seong
- Climate and Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, 42 Hwangyong-ro, Seogu, 22689 Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Climate and Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, 42 Hwangyong-ro, Seogu, 22689 Incheon, Republic of Korea.
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- Climate and Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, 42 Hwangyong-ro, Seogu, 22689 Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Environmental Planning, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, 08826 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Climate and Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, 42 Hwangyong-ro, Seogu, 22689 Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Climate and Air Quality Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, 42 Hwangyong-ro, Seogu, 22689 Incheon, Republic of Korea
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McMonigal K. Aerosols hold the key to recent and future Pacific warming patterns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2322594121. [PMID: 38277442 PMCID: PMC10861884 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2322594121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2024] Open
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- Kay McMonigal
- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK99775
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Trancoso R, Syktus J, Allan RP, Croke J, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Chadwick R. Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world's population. Nat Commun 2024; 15:483. [PMID: 38212324 PMCID: PMC10784476 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44513-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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Future projections of precipitation are uncertain, hampering effective climate adaptation strategies globally. Our understanding of changes across multiple climate model simulations under a warmer climate is limited by this lack of coherence across models. Here, we address this challenge introducing an approach that detects agreement in drier and wetter conditions by evaluating continuous 120-year time-series with trends, across 146 Global Climate Model (GCM) runs and two elevated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios. We show the hotspots of future drier and wetter conditions, including regions already experiencing water scarcity or excess. These patterns are projected to impact a significant portion of the global population, with approximately 3 billion people (38% of the world's current population) affected under an intermediate emissions scenario and 5 billion people (66% of the world population) under a high emissions scenario by the century's end (or 35-61% using projections of future population). We undertake a country- and state-level analysis quantifying the population exposed to significant changes in precipitation regimes, offering a robust framework for assessing multiple climate projections.
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- Ralph Trancoso
- School of The Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
- Climate Projections and Services, Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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- School of The Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Centre for Climate, Environment and Sustainability, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of The Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
- Global Systems Institute, Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Lin Y, Takano Y, Gu Y, Wang Y, Zhou S, Zhang T, Zhu K, Wang J, Zhao B, Chen G, Zhang D, Fu R, Seinfeld J. Characterization of the aerosol vertical distributions and their impacts on warm clouds based on multi-year ARM observations. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 904:166582. [PMID: 37634734 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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Aerosol vertical distribution plays a crucial role in cloud development and thus precipitation since both aerosol indirect and semi-direct effects significantly depend on the relative position of aerosol layer in reference to cloud, but its precise influence on cloud remains unclear. In this study, we integrated multi-year Raman Lidar measurements of aerosol vertical profiles from the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility with available Value-Added Products of cloud features to characterize aerosol vertical distributions and their impacts on warm clouds over the continental and marine ARM atmospheric observatories, i.e., Southern Great Plains (SGP) and Eastern North Atlantic (ENA). A unimodal seasonal distribution of aerosol optical depths (AODs) with a peak in summer is found at upper boundary layer over SGP, while a bimodal distribution is observed at ENA for the AODs at lower levels with a major winter-spring maximum. The diurnal mean of upper-level AOD at SGP shows a maximum in the early evening. According to the relative positions of aerosol layers to clouds we further identify three primary types of aerosol vertical distribution, including Random, Decreasing, and Bottom. It is found that the impacts of aerosols on cloud may or may not vary with aerosol vertical distribution depending on environmental conditions, as reflected by the wide variations of the relations between AOD and cloud properties. For example, as AOD increases, the liquid water paths (LWPs) tend to be reduced at SGP but enhanced at ENA. The relations of cloud droplet effective radius with AOD largely depend on aerosol vertical distributions, particularly showing positive values in the Random type under low-LWP condition (<50 g m-2). The distinct features of aerosol-cloud interactions in relation to aerosol vertical distribution are likely attributed to the continental-marine contrast in thermodynamic environments and aerosol conditions between SGP and ENA.
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- Yun Lin
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, United States
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, United States
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States
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Feng T, Yuan T, Cao J, Wang Z, Zhi R, Hu Z, Huang J. The influence of dust on extreme precipitation at a large city in North China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 901:165890. [PMID: 37541499 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023]
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In recent decades, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster is experiencing rapid urbanization along with economic booming. Meanwhile, these cities are suffering the influence of extreme precipitation and dust storms. In this study, the impact of dust aerosol on extreme precipitation that occurred in Beijing during 19-21 July 2016 is investigated using both satellite retrievals and Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled to Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model simulations. Results reveal that the dust particles can increase extreme precipitation by promoting the formation of ice clouds and enhancing convections. The dust is lifted into the upper troposphere (>10 km) via strong convection and affects the physical process of precipitation after long-range transport. It further transforms the supercooled water into the middle and high levels of ice nuclei (IN). These promote the formation of ice clouds according to the decreased effective radius of IN and increased ice water path, respectively. Along with sufficient water vapor transport and strong convergence, the formation of IN could release more latent heat and further strengthen convection development. Thus, the precipitation amount in southern Beijing is almost enhanced by 40 % (>80 mm). This study will provide a deep insight into understanding the causes of urban extreme precipitation.
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- Taichen Feng
- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme and Graduation Division of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- College of Physical Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai 519082, China.
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Li J, Zhang F, Liu J, Li W, Wu K, Hu S, Lin H. Parameterization of optical properties for liquid cloud droplets containing black carbon based on neural network. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:40124-40141. [PMID: 38041320 DOI: 10.1364/oe.503825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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This paper introduces a novel back propagation (BP) neural network method to accurately characterize optical properties of liquid cloud droplets, including black carbon. The model establishes relationships between black carbon volume fraction, wavelength, cloud effective radius, and optical properties. Evaluated on a test set, the value of the root mean square error (RMSE) of the asymmetry factor, extinction coefficient, single-scattering albedo, and the first 4 moments of the Legendre expansion of the phase function are less than 0.003, with the maximum mean relative error (MRE) reaching 0.2%, which are all better than the traditional method that only uses polynomials to fit the relationship between the effective radius and optical properties. Notably, the BP neural network significantly compresses the optical property database size by 37,800 times. Radiative transfer simulations indicate that mixing black carbon particles in water clouds reduces the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance and heats the atmosphere. However, if the volume fraction of black carbon is less than 10-6, the black carbon mixed in the water cloud has a tiny effect on the simulated TOA reflectance.
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Nair HRCR, Budhavant K, Manoj MR, Andersson A, Satheesh SK, Ramanathan V, Gustafsson Ö. Aerosol demasking enhances climate warming over South Asia. NPJ CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE 2023; 6:39. [PMID: 37252186 PMCID: PMC10199435 DOI: 10.1038/s41612-023-00367-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Anthropogenic aerosols mask the climate warming caused by greenhouse gases (GHGs). In the absence of observational constraints, large uncertainties plague the estimates of this masking effect. Here we used the abrupt reduction in anthropogenic emissions observed during the COVID-19 societal slow-down to characterize the aerosol masking effect over South Asia. During this period, the aerosol loading decreased substantially and our observations reveal that the magnitude of this aerosol demasking corresponds to nearly three-fourths of the CO2-induced radiative forcing over South Asia. Concurrent measurements over the northern Indian Ocean unveiled a ~7% increase in the earth's surface-reaching solar radiation (surface brightening). Aerosol-induced atmospheric solar heating decreased by ~0.4 K d-1. Our results reveal that under clear sky conditions, anthropogenic emissions over South Asia lead to nearly 1.4 W m-2 heating at the top of the atmosphere during the period March-May. A complete phase-out of today's fossil fuel combustion to zero-emission renewables would result in rapid aerosol demasking, while the GHGs linger on.
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- H. R. C. R. Nair
- Department of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Maldives Climate Observatory at Hanimaadhoo, H. Dh. Hanimaadhoo, Maldives
- Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- DST-Centre of Excellence in Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Khamala GW, Makokha JW, Boiyo R, Kumar KR. Spatiotemporal analysis of absorbing aerosols and radiative forcing over environmentally distinct stations in East Africa during 2001-2018. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 864:161041. [PMID: 36563754 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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East Africa (EA) suffers from the inadequate characterization of atmospheric aerosols, with far-reaching consequences of its inability to quantify precisely the impacts of these particles on regional climate. The current study aimed at characterizing absorption and radiative properties of aerosols using the long-term (2001-2018) AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) and Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2) data over three environmentally specific sites in EA. The annual mean absorption aerosol optical depth (AAOD440 nm), absorption Angstrom Exponent (AAE440-870 nm), total effective radius (REff), and total volume concentration (μm3/μm2) revealed significant spatial heterogeneity over the domain. The study domain exhibited a significant contribution of fine-mode aerosols compared to the coarse-mode particles. The monthly variation in SSA440 nm over EA explains the strength in absorption aerosols that range from moderate to strong absorbing aerosols. The aerosols exhibited significant variability over the study domain, with the dominance of absorbing fine-mode aerosols over Mbita accounting for ∼40 to ∼50 %, while weakly absorbing coarse-mode particles accounted for ∼8.2 % over Malindi. The study conclusively determined that Mbita was dominated by AAOD mainly from biomass burning in most of the months, whereas Malindi was coated with black carbon. The direct aerosol radiative forcing (DARF) retrieved from both the AERONET and MERRA-2 models showed strong cooling at the top of the atmosphere (TOA; -6 to -27 Wm-2) and the bottom of the atmosphere (BOA, -7 to -66 Wm-2). However, significant warming was noticed within the atmosphere (ATM; +14 to +76 Wm-2), an indication of the role of aerosols in regional climate change. The study contributed to understanding aerosol absorption and radiative characteristics over EA and can form the basis of other related studies over the domain and beyond.
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- Geoffrey W Khamala
- Department of Science Technology and Engineering, Kibabii University, P.O. Box 1699-50200, Bungoma, Kenya.
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- Department of Science Technology and Engineering, Kibabii University, P.O. Box 1699-50200, Bungoma, Kenya
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Meru University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 972-60200, Meru, Kenya; Department of Environment, Water, Energy and Natural Resources, County Government of Vihiga, Maragoli, Kenya
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- Department of Engineering Physics, College of Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, 522 302 Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Singh R, Singh V, Gautam AS, Gautam S, Sharma M, Soni PS, Singh K, Gautam A. Temporal and Spatial Variations of Satellite-Based Aerosol Optical Depths, Angstrom Exponent, Single Scattering Albedo, and Ultraviolet-Aerosol Index over Five Polluted and Less-Polluted Cities of Northern India: Impact of Urbanization and Climate Change. AEROSOL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2023; 7:131-149. [PMCID: PMC9648442 DOI: 10.1007/s41810-022-00168-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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It is widely acknowledged that factors such as population growth, urbanization's quick speed, economic growth, and industrialization all have a role in the atmosphere's rising aerosol concentration. In the current work, we assessed and discussed the findings of a thorough analysis of the temporal and spatial variations of satellite-based aerosol optical parameters such as Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom Exponent (AE), Single Scattering Albedo (SSA), and Ultraviolet-Aerosol Index (UV-AI), and their concentration have been investigated in this study over five polluted and less-polluted cities of northern India during the last decade 2011–2020. The temporal variation of aerosol optical parameters for AOD ranging from 0.2 to 1.8 with decadal mean 0.86 ± 0.36 for Patna region shows high value with a decadal increasing trend over the study area due to rise in aerosols combustion of fossil fuels, huge vehicles traffic, and biomass over the past ten years. The temporal variation of AE ranging from 0.3 to 1.8 with decadal mean 1.72 ± 0.11 for Agra region shows high value as compared to other study areas, which indicates a comparatively higher level of fine-mode aerosols at Agra. The temporal variation of SSA ranging from 0.8 to 0.9 with decadal mean 0.92 ± 0.02 for SSA shows no discernible decadal pattern at any of the locations. The temporal variation of UV-AI ranging from -1.01 to 2.36 with decadal mean 0.59 ± 0.06 for UV-AI demonstrates a rising tendency, with a noticeable rise in Ludhiana, which suggests relative dominance of absorbing dust aerosols over Ludhiana. Further, to understand the impact of emerging activities, analyses were done in seasonality. For this aerosol climatology was derived for different seasons, i.e., Winter, Pre-Monsoon, Monsoon, and Post-Monsoon. High aerosol was observed in Winter for the study areas Patna, Delhi, and Agra which indicated the particles major dominance of burning aerosol from biomass; and the worst in Monsoon and Post-Monsoon for the Tehri Garhwal and Ludhiana study areas which indicated most of the aerosol concentration is removed by rainfall. After that, we analyzed the correlation among all the parameters to better understand the temporal and spatial distribution characteristics of aerosols over the selected region. The value of r for AOD (550 nm) for regions 2 and 1(0.80) shows a strong positive correlation and moderately positive for the regions 3 and 1 (0.64), mostly as a result of mineral dust carried from arid western regions. The value of r for AE (412/470 nm) for region 3 and (0.40) shows a moderately positive correlation, which is the resultant of the dominance of fine-mode aerosol and negative for the regions 5 and 1 (− 0.06). The value of r for SSA (500 nm) for regions 2 and 1 (0.63) shows a moderately positive correlation, which explains the rise in big aerosol particles, which scatters sun energy more efficiently, and the value of r for UV-AI for regions 1 and 2 shows a strong positive correlation (0.77) and moderately positive for the regions 3 and 1 (0.46) which indicates the absorbing aerosols present over the study region.
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- Rolly Singh
- Department of Physics Agra College, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, Agra, 282004 Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Physics Agra College, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, Agra, 282004 Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Physics, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar, Garhwal, India
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, 641117 India
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- School of Science and Engineering, Himgiri Zee University, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand India
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- Department of Physics Agra College, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, Agra, 282004 Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Physics, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar, Garhwal, India
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- Department of Physics Agra College, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, Agra, 282004 Uttar Pradesh India
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Analysis and Variation of the Maiac Aerosol Optical Depth in Underexplored Urbanized Area of National Capital Region, India. JOURNAL OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.2478/jlecol-2022-0019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Aerosol monitoring is the emerging application field of satellite remote sensing. As a satellite-based indicator of aerosol concentration, aerosol optical depth (AOD) can aid in assessing the crucial effects of aerosols on the global environment. Among various satellite-based aerosol product, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 (C6), Multiangle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) aerosol product (1 km resolution) has still untapped potential in Indian regions. Considering the importance of regional validation of such high-resolution aerosol product, the present study attempts to fill this gap by validating MAIAC aerosol estimates (AODMAIAC) in highly polluted districts (Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Gurugram) of National Capital Region (NCR) with heavy aerosol loading using limited AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) observations obtained from AERONET sites at Amity University (AU) and Gual Pahari (GP). Such evaluation of satellite-retrieved aerosol product with ground data confirms its practicality based on retrieval errors (Expected Error (EE) values (EE = 0.05 + 15 %*AOD) (EE: 78.85 % at AU, 73.58 % at GP), root mean square error (RMSE) values (RMSE: 0.15 at AU, 0.24 at GP), and correlation coefficient (R) values (R: 0.86 at AU, 0.73 at GP). The seasonal variation in AOD over the study area from 2010-2019 reveals increasing trend of AOD in the monsoon and post-monsoon season due to natural and anthropogenic factors. In addition to contributing to a holistic assessment of MAIAC aerosol estimates as a recent, high-resolution aerosol product, present results provide a basis for further research into NCR aerosols.
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Huusko L, Modak A, Mauritsen T. Stronger Response to the Aerosol Indirect Effect Due To Cooling in Remote Regions. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2022; 49:e2022GL101184. [PMID: 36589776 PMCID: PMC9788190 DOI: 10.1029/2022gl101184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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It is often assumed that effective radiative forcings, regardless of forcing agent, are additive in the temperature change. Using climate model simulations with abruptly applied aerosol forcing we find that the temperature response per unit forcing is larger if induced by aerosol-cloud interactions than directly by aerosols. The spatial patterns of forcing and temperature change show that aerosol-cloud interactions induce cooling over remote oceans in the extratropics, whereas the effect of increased emissions is localized around the emission sources primarily over tropical land. The results are consistent with ideas of how the patterns of sea surface temperature impact radiative feedbacks, and a large forcing efficacy of aerosol-cloud interactions could help explain previously observed intermodel spread in the response to aerosols.
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- Linnea Huusko
- Department of MeteorologyStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Department of MeteorologyStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
- Now at Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate StudiesIndian Institute of Technology BombayMumbaiIndia
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Khamala GW, Makokha JW, Boiyo R, Kumar KR. Long-term climatology and spatial trends of absorption, scattering, and total aerosol optical depths over East Africa during 2001-2019. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:61283-61297. [PMID: 35438404 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-20022-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The unprecedented increase in anthropogenic activities, coupled with the prevailing climatic conditions, has increased the aerosol load over East Africa (EA). Given this, the present study examined the trends in total, absorption, scattering, and total aerosol extinction optical depth (TAOD, AAOD, SAOD, and TAEOD) over EA, alongside trends in single scattering albedo (SSA). For this purpose, the AOD of different optical properties retrieved from multiple sensors and the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2) model between January 2001 to December 2019 were utilized to estimate trends and assess their statistical significance. The spatial patterns of seasonal mean AOD from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor and MERRA-2 model were generally characterized with high (>0.35) and low (<0.2) AOD centers over EA observed during the local dry and wet seasons, respectively. Also, the spatial trend analysis revealed a general increase in TAOD, being positive and significant over the arid and semi-arid zones of the northeastern part of EA, which is majorly dominated by locally derived dust. The local dry (wet) months generally experienced positive (negative) trends in TAOD, associated with seasonal cycles of rainfall. High and significant positive trends in AAOD were dominated over the study domain, attributed to an increased amount of biomass burning, variations in soil moisture, and changes in the rainfall pattern. The trends in TAEOD showed a distinct pattern, except over some months that depicted significant increasing trends attributed to changes in climatic conditions and anthropogenic activities. At last, the study domain exhibited decreasing trends in SSA, signifying strong absorption of direct solar radiation resulting in a warming effect. The study revealed patterns of trends in aerosol optical properties and forms the basis for further research in aerosols over EA.
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- Geoffrey W Khamala
- Department of Science Technology and Engineering, Kibabii University, P.O. Box 1699-50200, Bungoma, Kenya.
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- Department of Science Technology and Engineering, Kibabii University, P.O. Box 1699-50200, Bungoma, Kenya
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Meru University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 972-60200, Meru, Kenya
- Department of Environment, Water, Energy and Resources, County Government of Vihiga, Maragoli, Kenya
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- Department of Physics, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KLEF), Vaddeswaram, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, 522302, India
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Characterizing Atmospheric Brown Carbon and Its Emission Sources during Wintertime in Shanghai, China. ATMOSPHERE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos13060991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) is a kind of organic aerosol that efficiently absorbs ultraviolet-visible light and has an impact on climate forcing. We conducted an in-depth field study on ambient aerosols at a monitoring point in Shanghai, China, aiming to investigate the potential emission sources, molecular structures, and the contributions to light absorptions of ambient BrC chromophores. The results indicated that nine molecules were identified as nitroaromatic compounds, five of which (4-nitrophenol, 4-nitrocatechol, 2-nitro-1-naphthol, 3-methyl-4-nitrocatechol, and 2-methyl-4-nitrophenol) usually came from biomass burning or were produced from the photo-oxidation of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (e.g., toluene, benzene) under high-NOx conditions. 4-nitrophenol was the strongest BrC chromophore and accounted for 13% of the total aerosol light absorption at λ = 365 nm. The estimated light absorption of black carbon was approximately three times the value of methanol-soluble BrC at λ = 365 nm. The ratios of K+/OC and K+/EC, and the correlations with WSOC, OC, HULIS-C and K+, and MAE values of methanol extracts also indicated that the primary emissions from biomass burning contributed more aerosol light absorption compared to the secondary formation during the wintertime in Shanghai. Therefore, biomass burning control is still the most urgent strategy for reducing BrC in Shanghai.
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Anthropogenic Aerosols Effects on Ice Clouds: A Review. ATMOSPHERE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos13060910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Since the ability of anthropogenic aerosols to act as ice nucleation particles has been recognized, the effect of anthropogenic aerosols on ice clouds has attracted increasing attentions. In recent years, some progress has been made in investigating the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on ice clouds. In this paper, we briefly review the study on the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on ice nuclei, properties and radiative forcing of ice clouds. Anthropogenic aerosols can form ice nuclei through homogeneous nucleation and heterogeneous nucleation. Convective strength can modulate the response of ice clouds to anthropogenic aerosols by affecting the nucleation activities. There have been large uncertainties in calculating the radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on ice clouds in climate models. Further studies on the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on ice clouds are imperative to provide better parameterization schemes and reduce the uncertainties of aerosol indirect effects.
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Gao J, Li Y, Xie Z, Hu B, Wang L, Bao F, Fan S. The impact of the aerosol reduction on the worsening ozone pollution over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region via influencing photolysis rates. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 821:153197. [PMID: 35063532 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Due to the implementation of the toughest-ever emission control actions across China from 2013 to present, the aerosols are decreasing annually but ozone is simultaneously increasing, especially over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, where ozone pollution can even spread into winter. Quantifying each impact of aerosols on ozone in all seasons is urgent for the worsening ozone pollution in the improved aerosol air quality. In this study, we focused on the impact of aerosols on ozone via influencing photolysis rates. The air pollutants were simulated over the Central East China (CEC) in 2018 by using the Weather Research and Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model. By implementing emissions with base years of 2014 and 2018, we quantified the increase in ozone (ΔOzone_photolysis) caused by the decreasing aerosol concentrations (ΔPM2.5) by influencing photolysis rates over the BTH region in all seasons. Furthermore, combined with the ozone observations, the contribution of ΔOzone_photolysis to the total changes in ozone (ΔOzone_total) in all seasons was quantitatively discussed. Our results showed that ΔPM2.5 showed obvious seasonal variations, which PM2.5 decreased more significantly in winter and autumn than in spring and summer, although significant reductions in anthropogenic emissions were observed in all seasons. Consistent seasonal variations were also observed in ΔOzone_photolysis, and the mean increases reached 5.5 μg m-3, 2.6 μg m-3, 1.2 μg m-3, and 1.4 μg m-3 in winter, autumn, spring, spring, and summer, respectively. Compared with ΔOzone_total, ΔOzone_photolysis accounted for 36.3%, 17.2%, 3.5% and 10.6% of ΔOzone_total in winter, autumn, spring, and summer, respectively, suggesting that ΔOzone_photolysis was not the primary contributor to the current changes in ozone over the BTH region. However, the 36.3% contribution to ΔOzone_total in winter suggested that ΔOzone_photolysis is still an important contributor and should not be ignored when discussing the formation of high ozone episodes occurring in winter.
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- Jinhui Gao
- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China; Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Center for the Oceanic and Atmospheric Science at SUSTech (COAST), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Center for the Oceanic and Atmospheric Science at SUSTech (COAST), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmosphere Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmosphere Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Center for the Oceanic and Atmospheric Science at SUSTech (COAST), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Center for the Oceanic and Atmospheric Science at SUSTech (COAST), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Sai Krishna SVS, Prijith SS, Kumar R, Sesha Sai MVR, Ramana MV. Planetary albedo decline over Northwest India contributing to near surface warming. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 816:151607. [PMID: 34798084 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The increase in frequency and severity of heat waves during the pre-monsoon season (March-May) over Northwest India in recent decades is alarming. This study investigates the causative mechanism for warming through the forcing induced by planetary albedo changes over Northwest India, a hotspot for land-cover change. We use satellite-measured planetary albedo (α) and satellite-derived land-use-land-cover (LULC) data to estimate the impact of LULC changes from 2001 to 2018 on α and the associated radiative forcing. Over Northwest India, significant area under native land-cover, viz., barren, shrub and grass-lands, has been converted to cropland. The associated land-cover-induced changes have perturbed the radiation-budget by modifying the absorption of shortwave radiation, thereby contributing to the pronounced reduction of α as observed over this region. The diurnal-mean α has decreased by 0.016 ± 0.001 from 2001 to 2018 during pre-monsoon season which dominates α-decrease during the annual cycle over this region and contributes to the overall decreasing trend over India. Conversion of barren and shrub-lands to cropland is observed to be the greatest contributor to the α-decrease as compared to other land-cover changes. The radiative forcing due to decline in diurnal-mean α over Northwest India from 2001 to 2018 is highest during pre-monsoon at 5.99 ± 0.34 W/m2. This α-induced forcing averaged over the global land surface (0.02 W/m2) is equivalent to the corresponding direct forcing from rise in atmospheric methane concentrations during this period. We find an enhancement in near-surface heating to be associated with change in α; the decreasing trend in α during pre-monsoon has substantially enhanced near-surface extreme effective temperatures by 3.15 ± 2.61 K thus far and may further lead to more extreme heatwaves in future. Further, our findings highlight a decreasing (warming) and increasing (cooling) trend in clear-sky planetary albedo respectively over Northwest India and coastal regions, suggesting that sudden climate change could occur if one forcing dominates over the other.
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- S V S Sai Krishna
- National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad 500037, Telangana State, India.
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- National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad 500037, Telangana State, India
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- National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad 500037, Telangana State, India
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- National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad 500037, Telangana State, India
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- National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad 500037, Telangana State, India.
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Sandeep K, Panicker AS, Gautam AS, Beig G, Gandhi N, S S, Shankar R, Nainwal HC. Black carbon over a high altitude Central Himalayan Glacier: Variability, transport, and radiative impacts. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 204:112017. [PMID: 34509481 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 08/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Ambient equivalent black carbon (BC) measurements spanning from June to October have been carried out over an adjoining location of Satopanth and Bhagirath-Kharak Glaciers (3858m, amsl) of Central Himalaya during the year 2019. Hourly BC varied from 12 ng m-3 to 439 ng m-3 during the entire period of observation. Monthly averaged BC values showed the highest concentration during June (230.96 ± 85.46 ng m-3) and the lowest in August (118.02 ± 71.63 ng m-3). The decrease in BC during monsoon months is attributed to limited long-range transport and rapid wet scavenging processes. Transport model studies indicate a higher retention time of tracer in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, and adjacent polluted valley regions with increased biomass burning (BB) incidences. The high rate of BC influx during June, September, and October was attributed to transport from the polluted Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) region, wildfires, and vehicular emissions in the valley region. Higher equivalent brown carbon (BrC) influx is linked to BB, especially wood-burning, during intense forest fires at slopes of mountains. Data obtained from limited BC observations during the 2011-19 period showed no significant BC influx change during post-monsoon. The strong correlation between BC mass and BB affirms the dominant role of BB in contributing BC to the Glacier region. Increased TOA forcing induced by surface darkening and BC atmospheric radiative heating indicate an additional warming and possible changes of the natural snow cycle over the glacier depending on the characteristics and extent of debris cover.
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- K Sandeep
- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, MoES, Govt of India, Pune, India; Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.
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- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, MoES, Govt of India, Pune, India; Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune, India
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- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, MoES, Govt of India, Pune, India
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- Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, MoES, Govt of India, Pune, India
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- H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India
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- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
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- H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India
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Shu Z, Liu Y, Zhao T, Zhou Y, Habtemicheal BA, Shen L, Hu J, Ma X, Sun X. Long-term variations in aerosol optical properties, types, and radiative forcing in the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 807:151490. [PMID: 34748838 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Long-term variations in aerosol optical properties, types, and radiative forcing over the Sichuan Basin (SCB) and surrounding regions in Southwest China were investigated based on two-decade data (2001-2020) from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, and the Santa Barbara DISORT Atmospheric Radiative Transfer model. The results showed that the aerosol optical depth (AOD550nm) in the SCB, a major polluted region in Southwest China, experienced an increasing tendency at a rate of +0.052 yr-1 during 2001-2006; thereafter, it decreased speedy up from -0.020 to -0.058 yr-1 over recent years, whereas the interannual variation in Ångström exponent (AE470-660nm) presented a persistently increasing trend during 2001-2020, with a rate of +0.014 yr-1. An improved atmospheric environment but an enhanced fine particle contribution to regional aerosols in the SCB was observed. Over the polluted SCB region, the dominant aerosol types were biomass burning/urban industrial and mixed-type aerosols with the proportions of 80.7%-87.5% in regional aerosols, with a higher frequency of clean aerosols in recent years, reflecting an effect of controlling anthropogenic emission in the SCB owing to governmental regulation. By contrast, few changes were observed in the aerosol types and amounts in the eastern Tibetan Plateau (ETP), where clean continental aerosols dominate with high proportion of 93.7% in the clean atmospheric environment. A significant decline in polluted anthropogenic aerosols was observed below 3 km over the SCB, resulting in the regional aerosol extinction coefficients at 532 nm (EC532nm) were declined by -0.22 km-1 from 2013 to 2020. Notably, the decreases in aerosol radiative forcing within the atmosphere were found in the SCB and the adjacent northern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (NYGP) and ETP, with -41.6%, -33.7%, and -13.6%, respectively during 2013-2020. This indicates that such an attenuated aerosol heating rate in the atmosphere, caused by aerosol variation, could alter the atmospheric thermal structure over the SCB and surrounding areas for regional changes of environment and climate in recent years.
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- Zhuozhi Shu
- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Precision Regional Earth Modeling and Information Center, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Precision Regional Earth Modeling and Information Center, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
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- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Precision Regional Earth Modeling and Information Center, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
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- Precision Regional Earth Modeling and Information Center, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Fujian Academy of Environmental Sciences, Fuzhou 350011, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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Shao T, Liu Y, Wang R, Zhu Q, Tan Z, Luo R. Role of anthropogenic aerosols in affecting different-grade precipitation over eastern China: A case study. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 807:150886. [PMID: 34634341 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Atmospheric aerosols play an important role in affecting clouds and precipitation by serving as condensation/ice nuclei. However, how to quantify the contribution of anthropogenic aerosols to the alteration of clouds and precipitation remains unknown. In this study, using a Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model, we quantified the impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on cloud water properties under different precipitation grades during a single rainfall event over eastern China. The results of this study show that anthropogenic aerosols have varying effects on hourly precipitation with heavy (greater than 1.04 mm/h), moderate (0.41-1.04 mm/h), and light (less than 0.41 mm/h) grades. Due to the presence of anthropogenic aerosols, heavy precipitation is intensified by 70.96%; however, moderate and light precipitation is further weakened by 24.87% and 86.43%, respectively. For heavy precipitation, the addition of anthropogenic aerosols induces an enhancement in upward motion, increases the cloud water path and effective radius through the aerosol-radiation interaction (ARI) effect, which is the main reason for the intensification of heavy-grade precipitation. In addition, the weakened upward motion and decreased ice water path caused by ARI and aerosol-cloud interaction (ACI) effects play common roles in reducing moderate and light precipitation. Studying anthropogenic aerosols' impacts on precipitation is of great importance for understanding the influence of anthropogenic pollution on the weather and climate and even for promoting precipitation forecasting and prediction.
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- Tianbin Shao
- Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Modification of Temperature Lapse Rates and Cloud Properties during a Spatiotemporally Extended Dust Aerosol Episode (16–18 June 2016) over the Mediterranean Basin Based on Satellite and Reanalysis Data. REMOTE SENSING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/rs14030679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A spatiotemporally extended dust aerosol episode that occurred over the Mediterranean Basin (MB) from 16 to 18 June 2016 is investigated using observational satellite and reanalysis data, focusing on the effects of high dust loads on cloud formation and temperature fields, including the creation of temperature inversions. The atmospheric conditions before and during the 3-day dust aerosol episode case (DAEC) are also analyzed. The dust episode, which is identified using a contemporary satellite algorithm, consists of long-range transport of African dust to the western and central MB. The day to day, before and during the DAEC, atmospheric circulation, dust-cloud interactions, and dust effect on temperature are examined using a variety of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Level-3 Collection 6.1 satellite and Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis data. According to the obtained results, the dust export from N. Africa, which occurs under the prevalence of a trough over the western MB, and a ridge over the central MB, extends from southwest to northeast along two axes, one in the western and another in the central Mediterranean, covering remote areas up to the coasts of southern Europe, including the Balearic and Tyrrhenian Seas, the Italian peninsula, the Ionian and Adriatic Seas, and the Balkan peninsula. The analysis provides evidence of the formation of mixed-phase clouds, with high cloud-top heights (CTH higher than 10 km) and low cloud-top temperatures (CTT as low as 230 K), which spatiotemporally coincide with the high dust loadings that provide the necessary CCN and IN. Dust aerosols are transported either in the boundary layer (within the first 1–2 km) of areas close to the North African dust source areas or in the free troposphere over the Mediterranean Sea and the Italian and Balkan peninsulas (between 2 and 8 km). Distinct and extended layers of remarkable temperature inversions (up to 20 K/km) are created below the exported dust layers in the boundary layer of Mediterranean Sea areas, while weak/reduced lapse rates are formed over continental areas of MB undergoing the dust transport. Such modifications of temperature fields are important for the dynamics of the atmosphere of MB.
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Quantitatively Assessing the Contributions of Dust Aerosols to Direct Radiative Forcing Based on Remote Sensing and Numerical Simulation. REMOTE SENSING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/rs14030660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Dust aerosols substantially impinge on the Earth’s climate by altering its energy balance, particularly over Northwest China, where dust storms occur frequently. However, the quantitative contributions of dust aerosols to direct radiative forcing (DRF) are not fully understood and warrant in-depth investigations. Taking a typical dust storm that happened during 9–12 April 2020 over Northwest China as an example, four simulation experiments based on the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) were designed, including a real scenario with dust emissions and three hypothetical scenarios without dust emissions, with dust emissions doubled, and with dust emissions reduced by half, to quantitatively evaluate the contributions of dust aerosols to DRF and then to surface temperature, with particular attention to the differences between daytime and nighttime. Moreover, multi-satellite observations were used to reveal the behavior of dust events and to evaluate the model performance. During the daytime, the net dust radiative forcing induced by dust aerosols was –3.76 W/m2 at the surface (SFC), 3.00 W/m2 in the atmosphere (ATM), and –0.76 W/m2 at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), and thus led to surface air temperature cooling by an average of –0.023 ℃ over Northwest China. During the nighttime, the net dust radiative forcing was 2.20 W/m2 at the SFC, –2.65 W/m2 in the ATM, and –0.45 W/m2 at the TOA, which then resulted in surface temperature warming by an average of 0.093 ℃ over Northwest China. These results highlight that the contribution of dust aerosols to DRF is greater during the daytime than that during the nighttime, while exhibiting the opposite impact on surface temperature, as dust can slow down the rate of surface temperature increases (decreases) by reducing (increasing) the surface energy during the daytime (nighttime). Our findings are critical to improving the understanding of the climate effects related to dust aerosols and provide scientific insights for coping with the corresponding disasters induced by dust storms in Northwest China.
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Climatological Characteristics and Aerosol Loading Trends from 2001 to 2020 Based on MODIS MAIAC Data for Tianjin, North China Plain. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14031072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The North China Plain (NCP) in East Asia has a severe air pollution problem. In this study, the long-term spatial distribution and interannual trends of aerosol optical depth (AOD) were investigated using the MODIS MAIAC (multiangle implementation of the atmospheric correction) dataset from 2001 to 2020 for Tianjin, a city on the NCP. The annual AOD in Tianjin was 0.59 from 2001 to 2020. The average AOD of Tianjin was the highest in summer (0.96), followed by spring (0.58) and autumn (0.51). The annual AOD in Tianjin increased significantly in 2008 (approximately 0.77), and the minimum annual AOD was observed in 2020 (0.41). In summer, AOD in the 11 districts of Tianjin significantly increased from 2001 to 2010 and gradually decreased from 2011 to 2020. The occurrence frequency of AOD in the range of 0.2–0.5 was high in Tianjin accounting for almost 40% of the total proportion. In Tianjin, AOD exhibited a positive trend from 2001 to 2008 and an obvious negative growth trend from 2009 to 2020 due to anthropogenic emission. The findings are valuable for analyzing the climatological characteristics of aerosol loading and their optical properties at the district level of cities on the NCP.
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Li Y, Liu Y, Bohrer G, Cai Y, Wilson A, Hu T, Wang Z, Zhao K. Impacts of forest loss on local climate across the conterminous United States: Evidence from satellite time-series observations. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 802:149651. [PMID: 34525747 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Revised: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Forest disturbances alter land biophysics. Their impacts on local climate and land surface temperature (LST) cannot be directly measured by comparing pre- and post-disturbance observations of the same site over time (e.g., due to confounding such as background climate fluctuations); a common remedy is to compare spatially-adjacent undisturbed sites instead. This space-for-time substitution ignores the inherent biases in vegetation between two paired sites, interannual variations, and temporal dynamics of forest recovery. Besides, there is a lack of observation-based analyses at fine spatial resolutions capable of capturing spatial heterogeneity of small-scale forest disturbances. To address these limitations, here we report new satellite analyses on local climate impacts of forest loss at 30 m resolution. Our analyses combined multiple long-term satellite products (e.g., albedo and evapotranspiration [ET]) at 700 sites across major climate zones in the conterminous United States, using time-series trend and changepoint detection methods. Our method helped isolate the biophysical changes attributed to disturbances from those attributed to climate backgrounds and natural growth. On average, forest loss increased surface albedo, decreased ET, and reduced leaf area index (LAI). Net annual warming-an increase in LST-was observed after forest loss in the arid/semiarid, northern, tropical, and temperate regions, dominated by the warming from decreased ET and attenuated by the cooling from increased albedo. The magnitude of post-disturbance warming was related to precipitation; climate zones with greater precipitation showed stronger and longer warming. Reduction in leaf or LAI was larger in evergreen than deciduous forests, but the recovery in LAI did not always synchronize with those of albedo and ET. Overall, this study presents new evidence of biophysical effects of forest loss on LST at finer spatial resolutions; our time-series method can be further leveraged to derive local policy-relevant ecosystem climate regulation metrics or support model-based climate-biosphere studies.
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- Yang Li
- Environmental Science Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Environmental Science Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Extension, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Environmental Science Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Environmental Science Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Rastogi N, Satish R, Singh A, Kumar V, Thamban N, Lalchandani V, Shukla A, Vats P, Tripathi SN, Ganguly D, Slowik J, Prevot ASH. Diurnal variability in the spectral characteristics and sources of water-soluble brown carbon aerosols over Delhi. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 794:148589. [PMID: 34214816 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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It is well established that light-absorbing organic aerosols (commonly known as brown carbon, BrC) impact climate. However, uncertainties remain as their contributions to absorption at different wavelengths are often ignored in climate models. Further, BrC exhibits differences in absorption at different wavelengths due to the variable composition including varying sources and meteorological conditions. However, diurnal variability in the spectral characteristics of water-soluble BrC (hereafter BrC) is not yet reported. This study presents unique measurement hitherto lacking in the literature. Online measurements of BrC were performed using an assembled system including a particle-into-liquid sampler, portable UV-Visible spectrophotometer with liquid waveguid capillary cell, and total carbon analyzer (PILS-LWCC-TOC). This system measured the absorption of ambient aerosol extracts at the wavelengths ranging from 300 to 600 nm with 2 min integration time and water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) with 4 min integration time over a polluted megacity, New Delhi. Black carbon, carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and the chemical composition of non-refractory submicron aerosols were also measured in parallel. Diurnal variability in absorption coefficient (0.05 to 65 Mm-1), mass absorption efficiency (0.01 to 3.4 m-2 gC-1) at 365 nm, and absorption angstrom exponent (AAE) of BrC for different wavelength range (AAE300-400: 4.2-5.8; AAE400-600: 5.5-8.0; and AAE300-600: 5.3-7.3) is discussed. BrC chromophores absorbing at any wavelength showed minimum absorption during afternoon hours, suggesting the effects of boundary layer expansion and their photo-sensitive/volatile nature. On certain days, a considerable presence of BrC absorbing at 490 nm was observed during nighttime that disappears during the daytime. It appeared to be associated with secondary BrC. Observations also infer that BrC species emitted from the biomass and coal burning are more absorbing among all sources. A fraction of BrC is likely associated with trash burning, as inferred from the spectral characteristics of Factor-3 from the PMF analysis of BrC spectra. Such studies are essential in understanding the BrC characteristics and their further utilization in climate models.
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- Neeraj Rastogi
- Geosciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.
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- Geosciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India
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- Geosciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen 5232, Switzerland
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen 5232, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen 5232, Switzerland
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Ding K, Huang X, Ding A, Wang M, Su H, Kerminen VM, Petäjä T, Tan Z, Wang Z, Zhou D, Sun J, Liao H, Wang H, Carslaw K, Wood R, Zuidema P, Rosenfeld D, Kulmala M, Fu C, Pöschl U, Cheng Y, Andreae MO. Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6416. [PMID: 34741045 PMCID: PMC8571318 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26728-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Low clouds play a key role in the Earth-atmosphere energy balance and influence agricultural production and solar-power generation. Smoke aloft has been found to enhance marine stratocumulus through aerosol-cloud interactions, but its role in regions with strong human activities and complex monsoon circulation remains unclear. Here we show that biomass burning aerosols aloft strongly increase the low cloud coverage over both land and ocean in subtropical southeastern Asia. The degree of this enhancement and its spatial extent are comparable to that in the Southeast Atlantic, even though the total biomass burning emissions in Southeast Asia are only one-fifth of those in Southern Africa. We find that a synergetic effect of aerosol-cloud-boundary layer interaction with the monsoon is the main reason for the strong semi-direct effect and enhanced low cloud formation in southeastern Asia.
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- Ke Ding
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China.
- Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information and Science Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Mardi AH, Dadashazar H, Painemal D, Shingler T, Seaman ST, Fenn MA, Hostetler CA, Sorooshian A. Biomass Burning Over the United States East Coast and Western North Atlantic Ocean: Implications for Clouds and Air Quality. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. ATMOSPHERES : JGR 2021; 126:e2021JD034916. [PMID: 34777928 PMCID: PMC8587641 DOI: 10.1029/2021jd034916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Biomass burning (BB) aerosol events were characterized over the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda over the western North Atlantic Ocean (WNAO) between 2005 and 2018 using a combination of ground-based observations, satellite data, and model outputs. Days with BB influence in an atmospheric column (BB days) were identified using criteria biased toward larger fire events based on anomalously high AERONET aerosol optical depth (AOD) and MERRA-2 black carbon (BC) column density. BB days are present year-round with more in June-August (JJA) over the northern part of the East Coast, in contrast to more frequent events in March-May (MAM) over the southeast U.S. and Bermuda. BB source regions in MAM are southern Mexico and by the Yucatan, Central America, and the southeast U.S. JJA source regions are western parts of North America. Less than half of the BB days coincide with anomalously high PM2.5 levels in the surface layer, according to data from 14 IMPROVE sites over the East Coast. Profiles of aerosol extinction suggest that BB particles can be found in the boundary layer and into the upper troposphere with the potential to interact with clouds. Higher cloud drop number concentration and lower drop effective radius are observed during BB days. In addition, lower liquid water path is found during these days, especially when BB particles are present in the boundary layer. While patterns are suggestive of cloud-BB aerosol interactions over the East Coast and the WNAO, additional studies are needed for confirmation.
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- Ali Hossein Mardi
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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- Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Mallet M, Nabat P, Johnson B, Michou M, Haywood JM, Chen C, Dubovik O. Climate models generally underrepresent the warming by Central Africa biomass-burning aerosols over the Southeast Atlantic. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabg9998. [PMID: 34623916 PMCID: PMC8500511 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The radiative budget, cloud properties, and precipitation over tropical Africa are influenced by solar absorption by biomass-burning aerosols (BBA) from Central Africa. Recent field campaigns, reinforced by new remote-sensing and aerosol climatology datasets, have highlighted the absorbing nature of the elevated BBA layers over the South-East Atlantic (SEA), indicating that the absorption could be stronger than previously thought. We show that most of the latest generation of general circulation models (GCMs) from the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) underestimates the absorption of BBA over the SEA. This underlines why many (~75%) CMIP6 models do not fully capture the intense positive (warming) direct radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere observed over this region. In addition, underestimating the magnitude of the BBA-induced solar heating could lead to misrepresentations of the low-level cloud responses and fast precipitation feedbacks that are induced by BBA in tropical regions.
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- Marc Mallet
- CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Met Office, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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- GRASP SAS, 59000 Lille, France
- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, LOA–Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, 59000 Lille, France
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, LOA–Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, 59000 Lille, France
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Khatri P, Hayasaka T, Holben B, Tripathi SN, Misra P, Patra PK, Hayashida S, Dumka UC. Aerosol Loading and Radiation Budget Perturbations in Densely Populated and Highly Polluted Indo-Gangetic Plain by COVID-19: Influences on Cloud Properties and Air Temperature. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2021; 48:e2021GL093796. [PMID: 34924636 PMCID: PMC8667642 DOI: 10.1029/2021gl093796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Aerosols emitted in densely populated and industrialized Indo-Gangetic Plain, one of the most polluted regions in the world, modulate regional climate, monsoon, and Himalayan glacier retreat. Thus, this region is important for understanding aerosol perturbations and their resulting impacts on atmospheric changes during COVID-19 lockdown period, a natural experimental condition created by the pandemic. By analyzing 5 years (2016-2020) data of aerosols and performing a radiative transfer calculation, we found that columnar and near-surface aerosol loadings decreased, leading to reductions in radiative cooling at the surface and top of the atmosphere and atmospheric warming during lockdown period. Further, satellite data analyses showed increases in cloud optical thickness and cloud-particle effective radius and decrease in lower tropospheric air temperature during lockdown period. These results indicate critical influences of COVID-19 lockdown on regional climate and water cycle over Indo-Gangetic Plain, emphasizing need for further studies from modeling perspectives.
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- P. Khatri
- Graduate School of ScienceCenter for Atmospheric and Oceanic StudiesTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
- Research Institute for Humanity and NatureKyotoJapan
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- Graduate School of ScienceCenter for Atmospheric and Oceanic StudiesTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
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- National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationGoddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Department of Civil EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology KanpurKanpurIndia
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- Research Institute for Humanity and NatureKyotoJapan
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- Graduate School of ScienceCenter for Atmospheric and Oceanic StudiesTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
- Research Institute for Humanity and NatureKyotoJapan
- Research Institute for Global ChangeJAMSTECYokohamaJapan
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- Research Institute for Humanity and NatureKyotoJapan
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- Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)NainitalIndia
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Global Clear-Sky Aerosol Speciated Direct Radiative Effects over 40 Years (1980–2019). ATMOSPHERE 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos12101254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We assess the 40-year climatological clear-sky global direct radiative effect (DRE) of five main aerosol types using the MERRA-2 reanalysis and a spectral radiative transfer model (FORTH). The study takes advantage of aerosol-speciated, spectrally and vertically resolved optical properties over the period 1980–2019, to accurately determine the aerosol DREs, emphasizing the attribution of the total DREs to each aerosol type. The results show that aerosols radiatively cool the Earth’s surface and heat its atmosphere by 7.56 and 2.35 Wm−2, respectively, overall cooling the planet by 5.21 Wm−2, partly counterbalancing the anthropogenic greenhouse global warming during 1980–2019. These DRE values differ significantly in terms of magnitude, and even sign, among the aerosol types (sulfate and black carbon aerosols cool and heat the planet by 1.88 and 0.19 Wm−2, respectively), the hemispheres (larger NH than SH values), the surface cover type (larger land than ocean values) or the seasons (larger values in local spring and summer), while considerable inter-decadal changes are evident. These DRE differences are even larger by up to an order of magnitude on a regional scale, highlighting the important role of the aerosol direct radiative effect for local and global climate.
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Braun RA, McComiskey A, Tselioudis G, Tropf D, Sorooshian A. Cloud, Aerosol, and Radiative Properties Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. ATMOSPHERES : JGR 2021; 126:e2020JD034113. [PMID: 34377622 PMCID: PMC8350933 DOI: 10.1029/2020jd034113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study examines the atmospheric properties of weather states (WSs) derived from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project over the Western North Atlantic Ocean. In particular, radiation and aerosol data corresponding to two sites in the study domain, Pennsylvania State University and Bermuda, were examined to characterize the atmospheric properties of the various satellite-derived WSs. At both sites, the fair weather WS was most prevalent, followed by the cirrus WS. Differences in the seasonality of the various WSs were observed at the two sites. Fractional sky cover and effective shortwave cloud transmissivity derived from ground-based radiation measurements were able to capture differences among the satellite-derived WSs. Speciated aerosol optical thicknesses (AOT) from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2 were used to investigate potential differences in aerosol properties among the WSs. The clear sky WS exhibited below-average seasonal values of AOT at both sites year-round, as well as relatively high rates of occurrence with low AOT events. In addition, the clear sky WS showed above-average contributions from dust and black carbon to the total AOT year-round. Finally, transitions between various WSs were examined under low, high, and midrange AOT conditions. The most common pathway was for the WSs to remain in the same state after a 3 h interval. Some WSs, such as mid latitude storms, deep convection, middle top, and shallow cumulus, were more prevalent as ending states under high AOT conditions. This work motivates examining differences in aerosol properties between WSs in other regions.
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- Rachel A Braun
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Now at Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Lee H, Chung H, Ahn KH. Application of an aerosol electrical mobility spectrum analyzer: Charged-particle polarity ratio measurement in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. J Environ Sci (China) 2021; 105:81-89. [PMID: 34130842 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2020.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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An aerosol electrical mobility spectrum analyzer (AEMSA), developed at Hanyang University, was employed to investigate the particle charge characteristics in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. The particle charge characteristics in these areas were compared with the charging state in Ansan, South Korea, located in the midlatitude, where artificial factors, such as human activity, urbanization, and traffic, might result in a higher total concentration. Furthermore, in Ansan, South Korea, the charged-particle polarity ratio was very stable and was close to 1. However, notably different particle charge characteristics were obtained in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. The imbalance between the numbers of positively and negatively charged particles was evident, resulting in more positive charges on the atmospheric particles. On average, the positively charged particle concentrations in the Antarctic and Arctic areas were 1.4 and 2.8 times higher, respectively, compared with the negatively charged particles. The developed AEMSA system and the findings of this study provide useful information on the characteristics of atmospheric aerosols in the Antarctic and Arctic regions and can be further utilized to study particle formation mechanisms.
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- Handol Lee
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, South Korea
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- Aerosol Research and Technology Plus (ART+), 195-62, Daepyeong-ro, Daewol-myeon, Icheon, Gyunggi-do 17343, South Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, ERICA, 55 Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan 15588, South Korea.
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Zhao H, Gui K, Ma Y, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang H, Zheng Y, Li L, Zhang L, Che H, Zhang X. Climatology and trends of aerosol optical depth with different particle size and shape in northeast China from 2001 to 2018. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 763:142979. [PMID: 33498120 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Aerosol generated from the economic development and extensive urbanization in northeast China (NEC) could influence aerosol optical properties and affect the regional air quality. The level 3 aerosol optical depth (AOD) of different particle size and shape (spherical or nonspherical) obtained by Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) version 23 were used to estimate their seasonal, annual, and decadal distribution and contribution in NEC from 2001 to 2018. The highest AOD of approximately 0.3 was found in the central Liaoning urban agglomeration, and the lowest AOD occurred in the mountainous area of NEC; the proportion of spherical AOD in NEC region was more than 90%. The contribution of large AOD was higher in spring, ranging from 28.8% to 29.8%. In spring and summer, small and medium AODs were concentrated in central Liaoning (approximately 0.2-0.3 and 0.06-0.08, respectively). The annual variation in the AOD of different particle size was significantly higher in Liaoning than in Jilin and Heilongjiang. The annual proportions of small and spherical AODs were approximately 60% and 90%, respectively. The annual occurrence of clean conditions with AOD < 0.05 was most common in northern Heilongjiang (approximately 20%). In NEC, the annual occurrence frequencies of 0.05 < AOD < 0.15 and AOD > 0.6 were the highest (approximately 50%) and the lowest (less than 1%), respectively. Interdecadal AOD revealed a positive trend from 2001 to 2008 and a negative trend from 2009 to 2018. The frequency of occurrence trend at different AOD levels also changed from positive to negative between these two periods. The findings in this study are based on the first aerosol retrieval of the newly released MISR in NEC. The results provide a comprehensive understanding of the regional and climatological aerosol extinction with different AOD of size and shape as well as various level bins in NEC.
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- Hujia Zhao
- Institute of Atmospheric Environment, China Meteorological Administration, Shenyang 110166, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Atmospheric Environment, China Meteorological Administration, Shenyang 110166, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), CMA, Beijing 100081, China
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Decreasing concentrations of carbonaceous aerosols in China from 2003 to 2013. Sci Rep 2021; 11:5352. [PMID: 33674655 PMCID: PMC7935893 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84429-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Carbonaceous aerosols were characterized in 19 Chinese cities during winter and summer of 2013. Measurements of organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) levels were compared with those from 14 corresponding cities sampled in 2003 to evaluate effects of emission changes over a decade. Average winter and summer OC and EC decreased by 32% and 17%, respectively, from 2003 to 2013, corresponding to nationwide emission control policies implemented since 2006. The extent of carbon reduction varied by season and by location. Larger reductions were found for secondary organic carbon (SOC, 49%) than primary organic carbon (POC, 25%). PM2.5 mass and total carbon concentrations were three to four times higher during winter than summer especially in the northern cities that use coal combustion for heating.
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Fortunato Dos Santos Oliveira DC, Montilla-Rosero E, da Silva Lopes FJ, Morais FG, Landulfo E, Hoelzemann JJ. Aerosol properties in the atmosphere of Natal/Brazil measured by an AERONET Sun-photometer. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 28:9806-9823. [PMID: 33159225 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11373-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We analyzed data measured by a Sun-photometer of the RIMA-AERONET network with the purpose to characterize the aerosol properties in the atmosphere over Natal, state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, at the coast of Northeast Brazil. Aerosol Optical Depth, Ångström Exponent, Volume Size Distribution, Single Scattering Albedo, Complex Refractive Index, Asymmetry Factor, and Precipitable Water were analyzed from August 2017 to March 2018. In addition, MODIS and CALIOP observations, local Lidar measurements, and modeled backward trajectories were analyzed in a case study on February 9, 2018, that consistently confirmed the identification of a persistent aerosol layer below 4 km agl. Aerosols present in the atmosphere of Natal showed monthly mean Aerosol Optical Depth at 500 nm below 0.15 (~ 75%), monthly means of the Ångström Exponent at 440-670 nm between 0.30 and 0.70 (~ 69%), bimodal Volume Size Distribution is dominantly coarse mode, Single Scattering Albedo at 440 nm is 0.80, Refractive Index - Real Part around 1.50, Refractive Index - Imaginary Part ranging from 0.01 to 0.04, and the Asymmetry Factor ranged from 0.73 to 0.80. The aerosol typing during the measurement period showed that atmospheric aerosol over Natal is mostly composed of mixed aerosol (58.10%), marine aerosol (34.80%), mineral dust (6.30%), and biomass burning aerosols (0.80%). Backward trajectories identified that 51% of the analyzed air masses over Natal originated from the African continent.
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- Physical Sciences Department, School of Science, EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia
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- Environmental Science Department, Institute of Environmental, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP, Rua São Nicolau, 210, Centro, 09913-030, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
- Center for Lasers and Applications, Nuclear and Energy Research Institute-IPEN, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 2242, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil
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- Center for Lasers and Applications, Nuclear and Energy Research Institute-IPEN, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 2242, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil
- Physics Institute, University of São Paulo - USP, Rua do Matao, 1371, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Center for Lasers and Applications, Nuclear and Energy Research Institute-IPEN, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 2242, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil
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- Department of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (UFRN/DCAC), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
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Effect of Vertical Profile of Aerosols on the Local Shortwave Radiative Forcing Estimation. ATMOSPHERE 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos12020187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this work, the effect of the aerosol vertical distribution on the local shortwave aerosol radiative forcing is studied. We computed the radiative forcing at the top and bottom of the atmosphere between 0.2 and 4 microns using the libRadTran package and compared the results with those provided by AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork). Lidar measurements were employed to characterize the aerosol vertical profile, and collocated AERONET measurements provided aerosol optical parameters required to calculate its radiative forcing. A good correlation between the calculated radiative forcings and those provide by AERONET, with differences smaller than 1 W m−2 (15% of estimated radiative forcing), is obtained when a gaussian vertical aerosol profile is assumed. Notwithstanding, when a measured aerosol profile is inserted into the model, differences between radiative forcings can vary up to 6.54 W m−2 (15%), with a mean of differences = −0.74 ± 3.06 W m−2 at BOA and −3.69 W m−2 (13%), with a mean of differences = −0.27 ± 1.32 W m−2 at TOA due to multiple aerosol layers and aerosol types. These results indicate that accurate information about aerosol vertical distribution must be incorporated in the radiative forcing calculation in order to reduce its uncertainties.
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Maeda N. Brief Overview of Ice Nucleation. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26020392. [PMID: 33451150 PMCID: PMC7828621 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26020392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The nucleation of ice is vital in cloud physics and impacts on a broad range of matters from the cryopreservation of food, tissues, organs, and stem cells to the prevention of icing on aircraft wings, bridge cables, wind turbines, and other structures. Ice nucleation thus has broad implications in medicine, food engineering, mineralogy, biology, and other fields. Nowadays, the growing threat of global warming has led to intense research activities on the feasibility of artificially modifying clouds to shift the Earth’s radiation balance. For these reasons, nucleation of ice has been extensively studied over many decades and rightfully so. It is thus not quite possible to cover the whole subject of ice nucleation in a single review. Rather, this feature article provides a brief overview of ice nucleation that focuses on several major outstanding fundamental issues. The author’s wish is to aid early researchers in ice nucleation and those who wish to get into the field of ice nucleation from other disciplines by concisely summarizing the outstanding issues in this important field. Two unresolved challenges stood out from the review, namely the lack of a molecular-level picture of ice nucleation at an interface and the limitations of classical nucleation theory.
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- Nobuo Maeda
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, University of Alberta, 7-207 Donadeo ICE, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T6G1H9, Canada
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Lee DS, Fahey DW, Skowron A, Allen MR, Burkhardt U, Chen Q, Doherty SJ, Freeman S, Forster PM, Fuglestvedt J, Gettelman A, De León RR, Lim LL, Lund MT, Millar RJ, Owen B, Penner JE, Pitari G, Prather MJ, Sausen R, Wilcox LJ. The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT (OXFORD, ENGLAND : 1994) 2021; 244:117834. [PMID: 32895604 PMCID: PMC7468346 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Global aviation operations contribute to anthropogenic climate change via a complex set of processes that lead to a net surface warming. Of importance are aviation emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), water vapor, soot and sulfate aerosols, and increased cloudiness due to contrail formation. Aviation grew strongly over the past decades (1960-2018) in terms of activity, with revenue passenger kilometers increasing from 109 to 8269 billion km yr-1, and in terms of climate change impacts, with CO2 emissions increasing by a factor of 6.8 to 1034 Tg CO2 yr-1. Over the period 2013-2018, the growth rates in both terms show a marked increase. Here, we present a new comprehensive and quantitative approach for evaluating aviation climate forcing terms. Both radiative forcing (RF) and effective radiative forcing (ERF) terms and their sums are calculated for the years 2000-2018. Contrail cirrus, consisting of linear contrails and the cirrus cloudiness arising from them, yields the largest positive net (warming) ERF term followed by CO2 and NOx emissions. The formation and emission of sulfate aerosol yields a negative (cooling) term. The mean contrail cirrus ERF/RF ratio of 0.42 indicates that contrail cirrus is less effective in surface warming than other terms. For 2018 the net aviation ERF is +100.9 milliwatts (mW) m-2 (5-95% likelihood range of (55, 145)) with major contributions from contrail cirrus (57.4 mW m-2), CO2 (34.3 mW m-2), and NOx (17.5 mW m-2). Non-CO2 terms sum to yield a net positive (warming) ERF that accounts for more than half (66%) of the aviation net ERF in 2018. Using normalization to aviation fuel use, the contribution of global aviation in 2011 was calculated to be 3.5 (4.0, 3.4) % of the net anthropogenic ERF of 2290 (1130, 3330) mW m-2. Uncertainty distributions (5%, 95%) show that non-CO2 forcing terms contribute about 8 times more than CO2 to the uncertainty in the aviation net ERF in 2018. The best estimates of the ERFs from aviation aerosol-cloud interactions for soot and sulfate remain undetermined. CO2-warming-equivalent emissions based on global warming potentials (GWP* method) indicate that aviation emissions are currently warming the climate at approximately three times the rate of that associated with aviation CO2 emissions alone. CO2 and NOx aviation emissions and cloud effects remain a continued focus of anthropogenic climate change research and policy discussions.
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- D S Lee
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, USA
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- CICERO-Center for International Climate Research-Oslo, PO Box 1129, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- CICERO-Center for International Climate Research-Oslo, PO Box 1129, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Committee on Climate Change, 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SZ, UK
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2143, USA
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Università dell'Aquila, Via Vetoio, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, 3329 Croul Hall, CA, 92697-3100, USA
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading, RG6 6BB, UK
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Liu H, Pan X, Wu Y, Ji D, Tian Y, Chen X, Wang Z. Size-resolved mixing state and optical properties of black carbon at an urban site in Beijing. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 749:141523. [PMID: 32827831 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The size-resolved (200-700 nm) mixing state and optical properties of black carbon (BC) in Beijing in the spring of 2019 were investigated using a tandem system consisting of an aerodynamic aerosol classifier, a nephelometer, and a single particle soot photometer. The results showed that the coating thickness distribution exhibited a clear bimodal pattern for BC-containing particles with a fixed aerodynamic diameter (Dae). Based on the coating thickness, BC-containing particles can be classified as having external and internal mixing states. The number fraction of internal BC-containing particles increases with increasing Dae and reaches 95% when Dae = 700 nm. Both the BC core diameter and coating thickness simultaneously increased with an increasing Dae of BC-containing particles. The dynamic shape factor (χ) of BC-containing particles decreased from 1.43 to 1.0 as Dae increased from 200 nm to 400 nm and varied around 1.0 when Dae = 500-700 nm. This demonstrated that thickly coated BC-containing particles were more likely to have regular shapes. An observation-constrained simulation on the basis of Mie theory showed that the coating plays an important role in light absorption. The amplification of BC absorption by the coating increased from 1.21 to 1.75 with increasing Dae due to the thicker coating of BC-containing particles with a larger Dae. The single-scattering albedo was dependent on size, increasing from 0.83 to 0.98 with increasing Dae. The size-dependent characteristics of BC-containing particles were similar under different pollution conditions, but BC-containing particles tended to be larger with a thicker coating and have a larger absorption enhancement under polluted conditions (PM2.5 > 75 μg/m3) than under clean conditions (PM2.5 < 35 μg/m3). This study highlights the strong dependence of the microphysical and optical properties of BC on size.
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- Hang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; College of Earth Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment, Chinese Academy of Science, Xiamen 361021, China
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Wildfire Smoke Particle Properties and Evolution, From Space-Based Multi-Angle Imaging II: The Williams Flats Fire during the FIREX-AQ Campaign. REMOTE SENSING 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/rs12223823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Although the characteristics of biomass burning events and the ambient ecosystem determine emitted smoke composition, the conditions that modulate the partitioning of black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) formation are not well understood, nor are the spatial or temporal frequency of factors driving smoke particle evolution, such as hydration, coagulation, and oxidation, all of which impact smoke radiative forcing. In situ data from surface observation sites and aircraft field campaigns offer deep insight into the optical, chemical, and microphysical traits of biomass burning (BB) smoke aerosols, such as single scattering albedo (SSA) and size distribution, but cannot by themselves provide robust statistical characterization of both emitted and evolved particles. Data from the NASA Earth Observing System’s Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument can provide at least a partial picture of BB particle properties and their evolution downwind, once properly validated. Here we use in situ data from the joint NOAA/NASA 2019 Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments Experiment-Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field campaign to assess the strengths and limitations of MISR-derived constraints on particle size, shape, light-absorption, and its spectral slope, as well as plume height and associated wind vectors. Based on the satellite observations, we also offer inferences about aging mechanisms effecting downwind particle evolution, such as gravitational settling, oxidation, secondary particle formation, and the combination of particle aggregation and condensational growth. This work builds upon our previous study, adding confidence to our interpretation of the remote-sensing data based on an expanded suite of in situ measurements for validation. The satellite and in situ measurements offer similar characterizations of particle property evolution as a function of smoke age for the 06 August Williams Flats Fire, and most of the key differences in particle size and absorption can be attributed to differences in sampling and changes in the plume geometry between sampling times. Whereas the aircraft data provide validation for the MISR retrievals, the satellite data offer a spatially continuous mapping of particle properties over the plume, which helps identify trends in particle property downwind evolution that are ambiguous in the sparsely sampled aircraft transects. The MISR data record is more than two decades long, offering future opportunities to study regional wildfire plume behavior statistically, where aircraft data are limited or entirely lacking.
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Assessing Desert Dust Indirect Effects on Cloud Microphysics through a Cloud Nucleation Scheme: A Case Study over the Western Mediterranean. REMOTE SENSING 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/rs12213473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In this study, the performance and characteristics of the advanced cloud nucleation scheme of Fountoukis and Nenes, embedded in the fully coupled Weather Research and Forecasting/Chemistry (WRF/Chem) model, are investigated. Furthermore, the impact of dust particles on the distribution of the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and the way they modify the pattern of the precipitation are also examined. For the simulation of dust particle concentration, the Georgia Tech Goddard Global Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport of Air Force Weather Agency (GOCART-AFWA) is used as it includes components for the representation of dust emission and transport. The aerosol activation parameterization scheme of Fountoukis and Nenes has been implemented in the six-class WRF double-moment (WDM6) microphysics scheme, which treats the CCN distribution as a prognostic variable, but does not take into account the concentration of dust aerosols. Additionally, the presence of dust particles that may facilitate the activation of CCN into cloud or rain droplets has also been incorporated in the cumulus scheme of Grell and Freitas. The embedded scheme is assessed through a case study of significant dust advection over the Western Mediterranean, characterized by severe rainfall. Inclusion of CCN based on prognostic dust particles leads to the suppression of precipitation over hazy areas. On the contrary, precipitation is enhanced over areas away from the dust event. The new prognostic CCN distribution improves in general the forecasting skill of the model as bias scores, the root mean square error (RMSE), false alarm ratio (FAR) and frequencies of missed forecasts (FOM) are limited when modelled data are compared against satellite, LIDAR and aircraft observations.
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Zheng Y, Che H, Xia X, Wang Y, Yang L, Chen J, Wang H, Zhao H, Li L, Zhang L, Gui K, Yang X, Liang Y, Zhang X. Aerosol optical properties and its type classification based on multiyear joint observation campaign in north China plain megalopolis. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 273:128560. [PMID: 34756345 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Since haze and other air pollution are frequently seen in the North China Plain (NCP), detail information on aerosol optical and radiative properties and its type classification is demanded for the study of regional environmental pollution. Here, a multiyear ground-based synchronous sun photometer observation at seven sites on North China Plain megalopolis from 2013 to 2018 was conducted. First, the annual and seasonal variation of these characteristics as well as the intercomparsion were analyzed. Then the potential relationships between these properties with meteorological factors and the aerosol type classification were discussed. The results show: Particle volume exhibited a decreasing trend from the urban downtown to suburban and the rural region. The annual average aerosol optical depth at 440 nm (AOD440) varied from ∼0.43 to 0.86 over the NCP. Annual average single-scattering albedo at 440 nm (SSA440) varied from ∼0.89 to 0.93, indicating a moderate to slight absorption capacity. Average absorption aerosol optical depth at 440 nm (AAOD440) varied from ∼0.07 to 0.10. The absorption Ångström exponent (AAE) (∼0.89-1.40) indicated the multi-types of absorptive matters originated form nature and anthropogenic emission. The discussion of aerosol composition showed a smaller particle size of aerosol from biomass burning and/or fossil foil consumption with enhanced aerosol scattering and enlarged light extinction. Aerosol classification indicated a large percentage of mixed absorbing aerosol (∼20%-49%), which showed increasing trend between relative humidity (RH) with aerosol scattering and dust was an important environmental pollutant compared to southern China.
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- Yu Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- Laboratory for Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China; School of Geoscience, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000, China
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- Shijiazhuang Meteorological Bureau, Shijiazhuang, 050081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Atmospheric Environment, China Meteorological Administration, Shenyang, 110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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Wolf MJ, Zhang Y, Zawadowicz MA, Goodell M, Froyd K, Freney E, Sellegri K, Rösch M, Cui T, Winter M, Lacher L, Axisa D, DeMott PJ, Levin EJT, Gute E, Abbatt J, Koss A, Kroll JH, Surratt JD, Cziczo DJ. A biogenic secondary organic aerosol source of cirrus ice nucleating particles. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4834. [PMID: 33004794 PMCID: PMC7529764 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18424-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Atmospheric ice nucleating particles (INPs) influence global climate by altering cloud formation, lifetime, and precipitation efficiency. The role of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) material as a source of INPs in the ambient atmosphere has not been well defined. Here, we demonstrate the potential for biogenic SOA to activate as depositional INPs in the upper troposphere by combining field measurements with laboratory experiments. Ambient INPs were measured in a remote mountaintop location at -46 °C and an ice supersaturation of 30% with concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 70 L-1. Concentrations of depositional INPs were positively correlated with the mass fractions and loadings of isoprene-derived secondary organic aerosols. Compositional analysis of ice residuals showed that ambient particles with isoprene-derived SOA material can act as depositional ice nuclei. Laboratory experiments further demonstrated the ability of isoprene-derived SOA to nucleate ice under a range of atmospheric conditions. We further show that ambient concentrations of isoprene-derived SOA can be competitive with other INP sources. This demonstrates that isoprene and potentially other biogenically-derived SOA materials could influence cirrus formation and properties.
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- Martin J Wolf
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 54-918, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, 166 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
- Aerodyne Research Incorporated, Center for Aerosol and Cloud Chemistry, 45 Manning Road,, Billerica, MA, 01821, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, 3150 TAMU, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 54-918, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, 99354, USA
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 54-918, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique (LaMP), F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique (LaMP), F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 54-918, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, 166 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
- Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, 166 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-AAF), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Droplet Measurement Technologies, Longmont, CO, 80503, USA
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- Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
- Handix Scientific, Boulder, CO, 20854, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 1-290, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Tofwerk USA, 2760 29th St., Boulder, CO, 80301, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 1-290, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 66-350, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, 166 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 125 South Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, 166 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 66-350, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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Shen Z, Ming Y, Held IM. Using the fast impact of anthropogenic aerosols on regional land temperature to constrain aerosol forcing. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eabb5297. [PMID: 32821838 PMCID: PMC7406383 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb5297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Anthropogenic aerosols have been postulated to have a cooling effect on climate, but its magnitude remains uncertain. Using atmospheric general circulation model simulations, we separate the land temperature response into a fast response to radiative forcings and a slow response to changing oceanic conditions and find that the former accounts for about one fifth of the observed warming of the Northern Hemisphere land during summer and autumn since the 1960s. While small, this fast response can be constrained by observations. Spatially varying aerosol effects can be detected on the regional scale, specifically warming over Europe and cooling over Asia. These results provide empirical evidence for the important role of aerosols in setting regional land temperature trends and point to an emergent constraint that suggests strong global aerosol forcing and high transient climate response.
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- Zhaoyi Shen
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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Saidou Chaibou AA, Ma X, Sha T. Dust radiative forcing and its impact on surface energy budget over West Africa. Sci Rep 2020; 10:12236. [PMID: 32699263 PMCID: PMC7376035 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69223-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Dust is the dominant aerosol type over West Africa (WA), and therefore accurate simulation of dust impact is critical for better prediction of weather and climate change. The dust radiative forcing (DRF) is estimated using two sets of experiments in this study: one without and the other with dust aerosol and its feedbacks with the Weather Research and Forecasting with Chemistry model (WRF-Chem). Results show that DRF presents a net warming effect at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) and in the atmosphere (ATM), and cooling at the surface (SFC). The net DRF over WA is estimated to be 9 W/m2 at the TOA, 23 W/m2 in the ATM, and - 13 W/m2 at the SFC. Furthermore, dust-induced a reduction of sensible heat up to 24 W/m2 and SFC temperature up to 2 °C cooling over WA, an increase of latent heat up to 12 W/m2 over Sahara, a decrease up to 24 W/m2 over the vegetated surfaces and an increase in the surface energy balance up to 12 W/m2 over WA. The presence of dust significantly influences the surface energy budget over WA, suggesting that dust effects should be considered in more climate studies to improve the accuracy of climate predictions.
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- Abdoul Aziz Saidou Chaibou
- Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), International Joint Laboratory on Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, School of Atmospheric Physics, Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), International Joint Laboratory on Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, School of Atmospheric Physics, Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, Jiangsu, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), International Joint Laboratory on Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, School of Atmospheric Physics, Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, Jiangsu, China
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Takeishi A, Storelvmo T, Fierce L. Disentangling the Microphysical Effects of Fire Particles on Convective Clouds Through A Case Study. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. ATMOSPHERES : JGR 2020; 125:e2019JD031890. [PMID: 32714719 PMCID: PMC7379315 DOI: 10.1029/2019jd031890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Revised: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Aerosol emissions from forest fires may impact cloud droplet activation through an increase in particle number concentrations ("the number effect") and also through a decrease in the hygroscopicity κ of the entire aerosol population ("the hygroscopicity effect") when fully internal mixing is assumed in models. This study investigated these effects of fire particles on the properties of simulated deep convective clouds (DCCs), using cloud-resolving simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry for a case study in a partly idealized setting. We found that the magnitude of the hygroscopicity effect was in some cases strong enough to entirely offset the number/size effect, in terms of its influence on modeled droplet and ice crystal concentrations. More specifically, in the case studied here, the droplet number concentration was reduced by about 37% or more due solely to the hygroscopicity effect. In the atmosphere, by contrast, fire particles likely have a much weaker impact on the hygroscopicity of the pre-existing background aerosol, as such a strong impact would occur only if the fire particles mixed immediately and uniformly with the background. We also show that the differences in the number of activated droplets eventually led to differences in the optical thickness of the clouds aloft, though this finding is limited to only a few hours of the initial development stage of the DCCs. These results suggest that accurately and rigorously representing aerosol mixing and κ in models is an important step toward accurately simulating aerosol-cloud interactions under the influence of fires.
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- Azusa Takeishi
- Department of Geology and GeophysicsYale UniversityNew HavenCTUSA
- Currently at Laboratoire d'AérologieUniversity of Toulouse/CNRSToulouseFrance
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- Environmental and Climate Sciences DepartmentBrookhaven National LaboratoryUptonNYUSA
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Yang H, Peng Q, Zhou J, Song G, Gong X. The unidirectional causality influence of factors on PM 2.5 in Shenyang city of China. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8403. [PMID: 32439904 PMCID: PMC7242410 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65391-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Air quality issue such as particulate matter pollution (PM2.5 and PM10) has become one of the biggest environmental problem in China. As one of the most important industrial base and economic core regions of China, Northeast China is facing serious air pollution problems in recent years, which has a profound impact on the health of local residents and atmospheric environment in some part of East Asia. Therefore, it is urgent to understand temporal-spatial characteristics of particles and analyze the causality factors. The results demonstrated that variation trend of particles was almost similar, the annual, monthly and daily distribution had their own characteristics. Particles decreased gradually from south to north, from west to east. Correlation analysis showed that wind speed was the most important factor affecting particles, and temperature, air pressure and relative humidity were key factors in some seasons. Path analysis showed that there was complex unidirectional causal relationship between particles and individual or combined effects, and NO2 and CO were key factors affecting PM2.5. The hot and cold areas changed little with the seasons. All the above results suggests that planning the industrial layout, adjusting industrial structure, joint prevention and control were necessary measure to reduce particles concentration.
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- Hongmei Yang
- Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China.,Department of mathematics, Changji University, Xinjiang, 831100, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences And Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Geographical and environmental school of Tianjin normal university, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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- Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China. .,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100091, China.
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Zhao H, Che H, Gui K, Ma Y, Wang Y, Wang H, Zheng Y, Zhang X. Interdecadal variation in aerosol optical properties and their relationships to meteorological parameters over northeast China from 1980 to 2017. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 247:125737. [PMID: 31927227 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 11/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Northeast China has undergone rapid urbanisation with increased anthropogenic emissions, and the types and absorption properties of aerosols may affect regional climate change. MERRA-2 (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, version 2) distributions of aerosol optical depth (AOD), Ångström exponent (AE), and absorption aerosol optical depth (AAOD) from 1980 to 2017 was studied to estimate the climatology of aerosol optical properties over Northeast China. The highest AOD and AAOD occurred in Liaoning Province range from 0.3 to 0.4 and 0.02-0.03, respectively. The spacial distribution of black carbon (BC) AOD was similar to AAOD with maximum value in Liaoning province about 0.04 related to the emission sources and human activities. The seasonal interdecadal distribution indicated larger dust (DU) AOD in Liaoning (0.12) and organic carbon (OC) AOD in Heilongjiang (0.18). The contribution of SO4 to total AOD was significant in autumn and winter, and BC particles contributed 70% to total AAOD in all seasons. The decadal change in AOD was positive for 2000-2009 (0.2/decadal) due to the increased dust events happening in spring. The positive correlation between AOD and relative humidity (RH) at surface was about 0.4-0.6; the negative correlation between AOD and surface wind speed (WS) (-0.6), planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) (-0.2 to -0.6), sea level pressure (SLP) (-0.2) was found over the study period. This study's findings enable more comprehensive understanding of the distribution of aerosols optical properties and regional climatology in Northeast China.
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- Hujia Zhao
- Institute of Atmospheric Environment, China Meteorological Administration, Shenyang, 110016, China; State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Atmospheric Environment, China Meteorological Administration, Shenyang, 110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW) and Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, Beijing, 100081, China
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Ma B, Wang L, Tao W, Liu M, Zhang P, Zhang S, Li X, Lu X. Phthalate esters in atmospheric PM 2.5 and PM 10 in the semi-arid city of Xi'an, Northwest China: Pollution characteristics, sources, health risks, and relationships with meteorological factors. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 242:125226. [PMID: 31698210 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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PM2.5 and PM10 samples were collected in the semi-arid city of Xi'an in Northwest China from November 2016 to November 2017 and analyzed to assess pollution characteristics, sources, health risks, and influencing factors of 6 priority phthalate esters (PAEs). The results showed that the sum of the 6 PAEs (Σ6PAEs) was 85.5 ng m-3 in PM2.5 and 94.5 ng m-3 in PM10, being higher at the suburban site than the urban site and winter > spring > summer > autumn. The most abundant PAE was bis(2-ethylhexyl phthalate) (DEHP). PM2.5- and PM10-bound PAEs were associated mainly with the use of plasticizers plus the uses of cosmetics and personal care products, construction materials, and home furnishings. Temperature, relative humidity, and visibility had stronger influences on the concentrations of PM and PM-bound PAEs than pressure and wind speed. Pressure and relative humidity were positively correlated with the concentrations of PM and most of the PM-bound PAEs, while temperature, visibility and wind speed had negative correlations with the concentrations of PM and PM-bound PAEs. The non-carcinogenic risks of human inhalation exposure to PM-bound PAEs were in the range of 10-7 to 10-3, suggesting low non-cancer risks, which were higher at the suburban site than the urban site and higher to children than adults. The cancer risks of human inhalation exposure to PM-bound DEHP and butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) were in the range of 10-12 to 10-10, suggesting low carcinogenic risks, being in the order of the suburban site > the urban site and DEHP > BBP. Special attention should be paid to long-term low dose exposure to PAEs in the suburb, especially in winter and spring.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bianbian Ma
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China
| | - Lijun Wang
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China; International Joint Research Center of Shaanxi Province for Pollutant Exposure and Eco-environmental Health, Xi'an, 710119, PR China.
| | - Wendong Tao
- College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, 1 Forestry Dr Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA
| | - Mengmei Liu
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China
| | - Panqing Zhang
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China
| | - Shengwei Zhang
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China
| | - Xiaoping Li
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China; International Joint Research Center of Shaanxi Province for Pollutant Exposure and Eco-environmental Health, Xi'an, 710119, PR China
| | - Xinwei Lu
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, PR China
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