Articles | Volume 19, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019
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21 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 21 Aug 2019

Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth

Huizheng Che, Ke Gui, Xiangao Xia, Yaqiang Wang, Brent N. Holben, Philippe Goloub, Emilio Cuevas-Agulló, Hong Wang, Yu Zheng, Hujia Zhao, and Xiaoye Zhang

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A comprehensive assessment of the global and regional AOD trends over the past 37 years (1980–2016) is presented. AOD observations from both AERONET and CARSNET were used for the first time to assess the performance of the MERRA-2 AOD dataset on a global scale. Based on statistical models, we found the meteorological parameters explained a larger proportion of the regional AOD variability (20.4 %–2.8 %) when compared with emission factors (0 %%–56 %).
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