Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1337-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1337-2018
Research article
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01 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2018

Nine-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia as revealed by CALIOP

Emmanouil Proestakis, Vassilis Amiridis, Eleni Marinou, Aristeidis K. Georgoulias, Stavros Solomos, Stelios Kazadzis, Julien Chimot, Huizheng Che, Georgia Alexandri, Ioannis Binietoglou, Vasiliki Daskalopoulou, Konstantinos A. Kourtidis, Gerrit de Leeuw, and Ronald J. van der A

Data sets

LIVAS database ESA http://lidar.space.noa.gr:8080/livas/

CALIPSO data ICARE Data and Services Center http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/archive

MODIS data NASA https://giovanni.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

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We provide a 3-D climatology of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia, based on 9 years of CALIPSO observations and an EARLINET methodology. The results provide the horizontal, vertical and seasonal distribution of dust aerosols over SE Asia along with the change in dust transport pathways. The dataset is unique for its potential applications, including evaluation and assimilation activities in atmospheric simulations and the estimation of the climatic impact of dust aerosols.
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