Size-structured mineral dust aerosols and associated radiative effects produced by four different atmospheric transport models. The study draws on observational data on dust abundance, in situ measurements of dust optical properties and size distribution, and climate and atmospheric chemical transport model simulations of atmospheric dust concentrations.
DESCRIPTORS
type
simulated
gridded
yes
formats
nc
TEMPORAL
period
present
coverage
NA
resolution
monthly
climatology
yes
SPATIAL
coverage
global,
resolution
~2.5° by 2°
depth
depth resolved
KEY REFERENCES
- Kok, J.F., Ridley, D.A., Zhou, Q., Miller, R.L., Zhao, C., Heald, C.L., Ward, D.S., Albani, S. and Haustein, K., 2017. Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance. Nature Geoscience, 10(4), p.274. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2912