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Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth
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dc.contributor.authorChe, Huizhenges_ES
dc.contributor.authorGui, Kees_ES
dc.contributor.authorXia, Xiangaoes_ES
dc.contributor.authorWang, Yaqianges_ES
dc.contributor.authorHolben, Brent N.es_ES
dc.contributor.authorGoloub, Philippees_ES
dc.contributor.authorCuevas Agulló, Emilioes_ES
dc.contributor.authorWang, Honges_ES
dc.contributor.authorZheng, Yues_ES
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Hujiaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Xiaoyees_ES
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-23T06:54:35Z-
dc.date.available2019-08-23T06:54:35Z-
dc.date.issued2019-
dc.identifier.citationAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2019, 19(16), p. 10497–10523es_ES
dc.identifier.issn1680-7316-
dc.identifier.issn1680-7324-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/10754-
dc.description.abstractAerosol optical depth (AOD) has become a crucial metric for assessing global climate change. Although global and regional AOD trends have been studied extensively, it remains unclear what factors are driving the inter-decadal variations in regional AOD and how to quantify the relative contribution of each dominant factor. This study used a long-term (1980–2016) aerosol dataset from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis, along with two satellite-based AOD datasets (MODIS/Terra and MISR) from 2001 to 2016, to investigate the long-term trends in global and regional aerosol loading. Statistical models based on emission factors and meteorological parameters were developed to identify the main factors driving the inter-decadal changes of regional AOD and to quantify their contribution. Evaluation of the MERRA-2 AOD with the ground-based measurements of AERONET indicated significant spatial agreement on the global scale (r= 0.85, root-mean-square error = 0.12, mean fractional error = 38.7 %, fractional gross error = 9.86 % and index of agreement = 0.94). However, when AOD observations from the China Aerosol Remote Sensing Network (CARSNET) were employed for independent verification, the results showed that MERRA-2 AODs generally underestimated CARSNET AODs in China (relative mean bias = 0.72 and fractional gross error =−34.3 %). In general, MERRA-2 was able to quantitatively reproduce the annual and seasonal AOD trends on both regional and global scales, as observed by MODIS/Terra, although some differences were found when compared to MISR. Over the 37-year period in this study, significant decreasing trends were observed over Europe and the eastern United States. In contrast, eastern China and southern Asia showed AOD increases, but the increasing trend of the former reversed sharply in the most recent decade. The statistical analyses suggested that the meteorological parameters explained a larger proportion of the AOD variability (20.4 %–72.8 %) over almost all regions of interest (ROIs) during 1980–2014 when compared with emission factors (0 %–56 %). Further analysis also showed that SO2 was the dominant emission factor, explaining 12.7 %–32.6 % of the variation in AOD over anthropogenic-aerosol-dominant regions, while black carbon or organic carbon was the leading factor over the biomass-burning-dominant (BBD) regions, contributing 24.0 %–27.7 % of the variation. Additionally, wind speed was found to be the leading meteorological parameter, explaining 11.8 %–30.3 % of the variance over the mineral-dust-dominant regions, while ambient humidity (including soil moisture and relative humidity) was the top meteorological parameter over the BBD regions, accounting for 11.7 %–35.5 % of the variation. The results of this study indicate that the variation in meteorological parameters is a key factor in determining the inter-decadal change in regional AOD.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research has been supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (grant no. 41825011), the National Key R & D Program Pilot Projects of China (grant nos. 2016YFA0601901 and 2016YFC0203304), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 41590874), the CAMS Basis Research Project (grant no. 2017Z011), the European Union Seventh Framework Programme(FP7/2007-2013) (grant no. 262254), and the AERONET-Europe ACTRIS-2 program, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant no. 654109).es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherEuropean Geosciences Uniones_ES
dc.rightsLicencia CC: Reconocimiento CC BYes_ES
dc.subjectAerosol optical depthes_ES
dc.subjectMeteorological factorses_ES
dc.subjectClimate changees_ES
dc.titleLarge contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depthes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019es_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/262254es_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/654109-
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