Remote Sensing, 2016 This study focuses on analyzing the changes to aerosol properties caused by the dust storm called “China’s Great Wall of Dust” that originated from the Taklimakan Desert in April 2014.
Li Fang +6 more
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Enhanced Simulation of an Asian Dust Storm by Assimilating GCOM-C Observations
Remote Sensing, 2021 Dust aerosols have great effects on global and regional climate systems. The Global Change Observation Mission-Climate (GCOM-C), also known as SHIKISAI, which was launched on 23 December 2017 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is a next ...
Yueming Cheng +6 more
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Profiling of fine and coarse particle mass : Case studies of Saharan dust and Eyjafjallajökull/Grimsvötn volcanic plumes [PDF]
, 2012 © Author(s) 2012. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 LicenseThe polarization lidar photometer networking (POLIPHON) method introduced to separate coarse-mode and fine-mode particle properties of Eyjafjallajokull volcanic ...
Ansmann, A. +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2022 Dust aerosol has an impact on both the regional radiation balance and the global radiative forcing estimation. The Taklimakan Desert is the focus of the present research on the optical and micro-physical characteristics of the dust aerosol ...
Yuanyuan Wei +8 more
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ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): A global fine resolution dust optical depth dataset [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2020 Abstract. Monitoring and describing the spatiotemporal variability of dust aerosols is crucial to understand their multiple effects, related feedbacks and impacts within the Earth system. This study describes the development of the MIDAS (ModIs Dust AeroSol) dataset.
A. Gkikas +10 more
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Enhancing dust aerosols monitoring capabilities across North Africa and the Middle East using the A-Train satellite constellation [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement TechniquesNorth Africa and the Middle East encompass the most active dust sources on the planet. Due to the limited availability of ground-based aerosol observations across the deserts, spaceborne retrievals represent the most reliable source of information for ...
A. Moustaka +17 more
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Below-cloud scavenging of aerosol by rain: a review of numerical modelling approaches and sensitivity simulations with mineral dust in the Met Office's Unified Model [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 Theoretical models of the below-cloud scavenging (BCS) of aerosol by rain yield scavenging rates that are 1–2 orders of magnitude smaller than observations and associated empirical schemes for submicron-sized aerosol.
A. C. Jones +6 more
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On the spectral depolarisation and lidar ratio of mineral dust provided in the AERONET version 3 inversion product [PDF]
, 2018 Knowledge of the particle lidar ratio (Sγ) and the particle linear depolarisation ratio (δγ) for different aerosol types allows for aerosol typing and aerosol-Type separation in lidar measurements.
Kezoudi, Maria +6 more
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Analysis of pressure difference changes in respirator filters while dusting [PDF]
, 2018 Objective is to determine the relation between pressure difference of a filter and parameters of a filtering layer to lengthen the protection period.
Cheberiachko, Serhii +19 more
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Three-dimensional simulations of inorganic aerosol distributions in east Asia during spring 2001 [PDF]
, 2004 In this paper, aerosol composition and size distributions in east Asia are simulated using a comprehensive chemical transport model. Three-dimensional aerosol simulations for the TRACE-P and ACE-Asia periods are performed and used to help interpret ...
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