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Significant Radiative Absorption of Brown Carbon Aerosols From Residential Fuel Combustion in Developing Regions

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract Widespread household use of solid fuels releases massive amounts of carbonaceous aerosols in developing countries. Assessment of their roles in meteorology and climate change is considered low confidence by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Yiman Gao, Mingxu Liu, Ruichen Zhou, Xuhui Cai, Hongsheng Zhang, Yu Song, Hitoshi Matsui, Min Hu, Zifa Wang, Tong Zhu   +9 more
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Validation of AERONET-Estimated Upward Broadband Solar Fluxes at the Top-Of-The-Atmosphere with CERES Measurements

Remote Sensing, 2019
The AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) global network provides estimations of broadband solar radiative fluxes at the surface and at the TOA (Top-Of-the-Atmosphere).
Michaël Sicard
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An Evaluation of WRF‐Chem's Performance in Simulating PM2.5 in West African Cities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
Abstract West Africa experiences some of the highest particulate pollution levels globally due to Saharan dust, biomass burning and urban emissions. Despite the severe health burden, air quality monitoring remains sparse. This study evaluates WRF‐Chem's performance in simulating PM2.5 levels across seven West African cities in 2021 using newly ...
Aara’L Y. Yarber, Gregory S. Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source

Aerosol size distribution retrieved from optical depth measurements in Tamanrasset and Blida

Revue des Énergies Renouvelables, 2012
Since we are often faced with limited, insufficient or contaminated observations in remote sensing. We will employ a theoretical technique for the retrieval of the particle size distribution.
O. Aïssani, A. Mokhnache
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Assessment of Dust Size Retrievals Based on AERONET: A Case Study of Radiative Closure From Visible‐Near‐Infrared to Thermal Infrared

Geophysical Research Letters
Super‐coarse dust particles (diameters >10 μm) are evidenced to be more abundant in the atmosphere than model estimates and contribute significantly to the dust climate impacts.
Jianyu Zheng, Zhibo Zhang, Sergio DeSouza‐Machado, Claire L. Ryder, Anne Garnier, Claudia Di Biagio, Ping Yang, Ellsworth J. Welton, Hongbin Yu, Africa Barreto, Margarita Y. Gonzalez   +10 more
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Making a Dust Source Map: Can We Build, Implement, and Learn From a Reflectance Derived Sediment Supply Map in the Unified Forecast System (UFS)?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
Abstract Mineral dust is an important part of the climate system we live in. Dust hotspots in deserts and arid regions emit tons of dust annually, influenced by local meteorology and soil characteristics. As one of the most abundant aerosols, it is important to characterize and define the climate and human impacts of dust.
E. Faber, B. Baker, A. Rocha Lima, K. Schepanski   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals across Chinese Cities and Implications for Medium Spatial Resolution Urban Aerosol Monitoring

Remote Sensing, 2019
In urban environments, aerosol distributions may change rapidly due to building and transport infrastructure and human population density variations.
Zhongbin Li, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, Eric F. Vermote, Haiyan Huang   +4 more
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AERONET—A Federated Instrument Network and Data Archive for Aerosol Characterization

Remote Sensing of Environment, 1998
The concept and description of a remote sensing aerosol monitoring network initiated by NASA, developed to support NASA, CNES, and NASDA’s Earth satellite systems under the name AERONET and expanded by national and international collaboration, is described.
Holben, B.N., Eck, T.F., Slutsker, I., Tanré, D., Buis, J.P., Setzer, A., Vermote, E., Reagan, J.A., Kaufman, Y.J., Nakajima, T., /Lavenu, François, Jankowiak, I., Smirnov, A.   +12 more
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Improved Dust Microphysical Retrieval From LiDAR by Introducing a Priori Constraints From In Situ and Laboratory Measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
Abstract The accuracy of height‐resolved dust microphysical retrieval from LiDARs has been greatly improved by the recently developed BOREAL (Basic algOrithm for REtrieval of Aerosol with LiDAR) algorithm which describes non‐spherical dust particles with the Irregular‐Hexahedral (IH) model and inverts 3β (backscattering at 355, 532, and 1,064 nm) + 2α (
Yuyang Chang, Qiaoyun Hu, Philippe Goloub, Thierry Podvin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aerosol Radiative Forcing: AERONET-Based Estimates

, 2012
Solar radiation is the main source of energy for the Earth-atmosphere system, and directly or indirectly, is responsible for all phenomena affecting the meteorology and climatology of this system. The variation of any component of this system affects the radiative equilibrium, resulting in, for example, changes in the temperature of the system and/or ...
O.E. Garca, J.P. Daz, F.J. Expsito, A.M. Daz, O. Dubovik, Y. Derimi   +5 more
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