Articles | Volume 15, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-11629-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-11629-2015
Research article
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21 Oct 2015
Research article |  | 21 Oct 2015

Predicting the mineral composition of dust aerosols – Part 2: Model evaluation and identification of key processes with observations

J. P. Perlwitz, C. Pérez García-Pando, and R. L. Miller

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Short summary
A global compilation from nearly sixty measurement studies is used to evaluate two methods of simulating the mineral composition of dust aerosols. Dust emission based on wet-sieved soil is assumed for the first method. The second method reconstructs the aggregates and size distribution of the emitted dust aerosols. Only the second method is able to reproduce observed phyllosilicate fractions in the silt size range and reduces quartz overestimation. Substantial uncertainties remain.
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