Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid-Pacific

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作者
Eck, TF [1 ]
Holben, BN
Dubovik, O
Smirnov, A
Goloub, P
Chen, HB
Chatenet, B
Gomes, L
Zhang, XY
Tsay, SC
Ji, Q
Giles, D
Slutsker, I
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Biospher Sci Branch, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Univ Paris, LISA, F-7583 Creteil, France
[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Sci & Tech Lille Flandres Artois, Opt Atmospher Lab, F-59655 Villeneuve Dascq, France
[5] MNPCA, GMEI, CNRM, Meteo France,CNRS, F-31057 Toulouse, France
[6] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Climate & Radiat Branch, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[7] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, Xian 710075, Peoples R China
[8] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Goddard Earth Sci & Technol Ctr, Baltimore, MD 21228 USA
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10.1029/2004JD005274
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P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
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0706 ; 070601 ;
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[1] The column-integrated optical properties of aerosol in the central eastern region of Asia and midtropical Pacific were investigated based on Sun/sky radiometer measurements made at Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sites in these regions. Characterization of aerosol properties in the Asian region is important due to the rapid growth of both population and economic activity, with associated increases in fossil fuel combustion, and the possible regional and global climatic impacts of related aerosol emissions. Multiyear monitoring over the complete annual cycle at sites in China, Mongolia, South Korea, and Japan suggest spring and/or summer maximum in aerosol optical depth (tau(a)) and a winter minimum; however, more monitoring is needed to establish accurate climatologies. The annual cycle of Angstrom wavelength exponent (alpha) showed a springtime minimum associated with dust storm activity; however, the monthly mean alpha(440)-(870) was > 0.8 even for the peak dust season at eastern Asian sites suggesting that fine mode pollution aerosol emitted from population centers in eastern Asia dominates the monthly aerosol optical influence even in spring as pollution aerosol mixes with coarse mode dust originating in western source regions. Aerosol optical depth peaks in spring in the tropical mid-Pacific Ocean associated with seasonal shifts in atmospheric transport from Asia, and similar to 35% of the springtime tau(a500) enhancement occurs at altitudes above 3.4 km. For predominately fine mode aerosol pollution cases, the average midvisible (similar to 550 nm) single scattering albedo (omega(0)) at two continental urban sites in China averaged similar to 0.89, while it was significantly higher, similar to 0.93, at two relatively rural coastal sites in South Korea and Japan. Differences in fine mode absorption between these regions may result from a combination of factors including aerosol aging during transport, relative humidity differences, sea salt at coastal sites, and fuel type and combustion differences in the two regions. For cases where tau(a) was predominately coarse mode dust aerosol in the spring of 2001, the absorption was greater in eastern Asia compared to the source regions, with omega(0) at Dunhuang, China (near to the major Taklamakan dust source), similar to 0.04 higher than at Beijing at all wavelengths, and Anmyon, South Korea, showing an intermediate level of absorption. Possible reasons for differences in dust absorption magnitude include interactions between dust and fine mode pollution aerosol and also variability of dust optical properties from different source regions in China and Mongolia.
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