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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guo, Jianping
• Liu, Huan
• Wang, Fu
• Huang, Jingfeng
• Xia, Feng
• Lou, Mengyun
• Wu, Yerong
• Jiang, Jonathan H.
• Xie, Tao
• Zhaxi, Yangzong
• Yung, Yuk L.

Titel

Three-dimensional structure of aerosol in China: A perspective from multi-satellite observations

Ist Teil von

• Atmospheric research, 2016-09, Vol.178-179, p.580-589

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Using eight years (2006–2014) of passive (MODIS/Aqua and OMI/Aura) and active (CALIOP/CALIPSO) satellite measurements of aerosols, we yield a three-dimensional (3D) distribution of the frequency of occurrence (FoO) of aerosols over China. As an indicator of the vertical heterogeneity of aerosol layers detected by CALIOP, two types of Most Probable Height (MPH), including MPH_FoO and MPH_AOD, are deduced. The FoO of “Total Aerosol” reveals significant geographical dependence. Eastern China showed much stronger aerosol FoD than northwestern China. The FoO vertical structures of aerosol layer are strongly dependent on altitudes. Among the eight typical ROIs analyzed, aerosol layers over the Gobi Desert have the largest occurrence probability located at an altitude as high as 2.83km, as compared to 1.26km over Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei. The diurnal variation (nighttime–daytime) in MPH_AOD varies from an altitude as low as 0.07km over the Sichuan basin to 0.27km over the Gobi Desert, whereas the magnitude of the diurnal variation in terms of MPH_AOD is six times as large as the MPH_FoO, mostly attributable to the day/night lidar SNR difference. Also, the 3D distribution of dust and smoke aerosols was presented. The multi-sensor synergized 3D observations of dust aerosols, frequently observed in the zonal belt of 38°N–45°N, is markedly different from that of smoke aerosols that are predominantly located in the eastern and southern parts. The 3D FoO distribution of dust indicates a west-to-east passageway of dust originating from the westernmost Taklimakan Desert all the way to North China Plain (NCP). The findings from the multi-sensor synergetic observations greatly improved our understanding on the long-range aerosol dispersion, transport and passageway over China. •The 3D structure of aerosol occurrence frequency was reported over China.•Two MPHs were defined to indicate vertical heterogeneity of aerosol layers.•The diurnal variation in MPH of aerosol exhibited large geographical dependence.•Multi-sensor observations revealed a long-range passageway of dust over China.