Multi-site characterization of tropical aerosols: Implications for regional radiative forcing

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 106, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-85

  Sumit, Kumar ^a   Devara, P C S ^a   Manoj, M G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

AOD; Coastal; High altitude; SSA; Sun sky radiometer; Urban

Indexed keywords

AOD; COASTAL; HIGH ALTITUDE; SSA; URBAN;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; HEATING RATE; MARINE POLLUTION; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPACE RESEARCH;

AIR POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE FORCING; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; HEATING; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; URBAN POLLUTION;

AHMEDABAD; GADANKI; GUJARAT; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; PUNE; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84856008123     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Alexandrov M.D., Schmid B., Turner D.D., Cairns B., Oinas V., Lacis A.A., Gutman S.I., Westwater E.R., Smirnov A., Eilers J. Columnar water vapor retrievals from multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer data. J. Geophys. Res. 2009, 114:D02306. 10.1029/2008JD010543.
2. Babu S.S., Moorthy K.K., Satheesh S.K. Temporal heterogeneity in aerosol characteristics and the resulting radiative impacts at a tropical coastal station. Part 2: direct short wave radiative forcing. Ann. Geophys. 2007, 25:2309-2320.
3. Babu S., Sreekanth V., Krishna Moorthy K., Mohan Mannil, Kirankumar N.V.P., Bala Subrahamanyam D., Gogoi Mukunda M., Kompalli Sobhan Kumar, Beegum Naseema, Chaubey Jai Prakash, Arun Kumar V.H., Manchanda Ravi K. Vertical profiles of aerosol black carbon in the at-mospheric boundary layer over a tropical coastal station: perturbations during an annular solar eclipse. Atmos. Res. 2011, 99:471-478. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.11.019.
4. Badarinath K.V.S., Goto D., Kharol S.K., Mahalakshmi D.V., Sharma A.R., Nakajima T., Hashimoto M., Takemura T. Influence of natural and anthropogenic emissions on aerosol optical properties over a tropical urban site - a study using sky radiometer and satellite data. Atmos. Res. 2011, 100:111-120. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.01.003.
5. Devara P.C.S., Maheskumar R.S., Raj P.E., Pandithurai G., Dani K.K. Recent trends in aerosol climatology and air pollution as inferred from multi-year lidar observations over a tropical urban station. Int. J. Climatol. 2002, 22:435-449. 10.1002/joc.745.
6. Devara P.C.S., Saha S.K., Ernest Raj P., Sonbawne S.M., Dani K.K., Tiwari K., Maheskumar R.S. A four-year climatology of total column tropical urban aerosol, ozone and water vapor distributions over Pune, India. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 2005, 5(1):103-114.
7. Di Biagio C., di Sarra D., Meloni D. Large atmospheric shortwave radiative forcing by Mediterranean aerosols derived from simultaneous ground-based and spaceborne observations and dependence on the aerosol type and single scattering albedo. J. Geophys. Res. 2010, 115:D10209. 10.1029/2009JD012697.
8. Dubovik O., King M.D. A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from sun and sky radiance measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 2000, 105:20,673-20,696.
9. Dubovik O., Holben B.N., Eck T.F., Smirnov A., Kaufman Y.J., King M.D., Tanre D., Slutsker I. Variability of absorption and optical properties of key aerosol types observed in worldwide locations. J. Atmos. Sci. 2002, 59:590-608.
10. Dubovik O., Sinyuk A., Lapyonok T., Holben B.N., Mishchenko M., Yang P., Eck T.F., Volten H., Munoz O., Veihelmann B., van der Zande W.J., Leon J.-F., Sorokin M., Slutsker I. Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust. J. Geophys. Res. 2006, 111. 10.1029/2005JD006619.
11. Dusek U., Frank G.P., Hildebrandt L., Curtius J., Schneider J., Walter S., Chand D., Drewnick F., Hings S., Jung D., Borrmann S., Andreae M.O. Size matters more than chemistry for cloud-nucleating ability of aerosol particle. Science 2006, 312:1375. 10.1126/science.1125261.
12. Eck T.F., Holben B.N., Reid J.S., Dubovik O., Smirnov A., O'Neill N.T., Slutsker I., Kinne S. Wavelength dependence of the optical depth of biomass burning, urban, and desert dust aerosols. J. Geophys. Res. 1999, 104(D24):31,333-31,349. 10.1029/1999JD900923.
13. Eck T.F., Holben B.N., Dubovik O., Smirnov A., Goloub P., Chen H.B., Chatenet B., Gomes L., Zhang X.-Y., Tsay S.-C., Ji Q., Giles D., Slutsker I. Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid-Pacific. J. Geophys. Res. 2005, 110:D06202. 10.1029/2004JD005274.
14. Eck T.F., Holben B.N., Reid J.S., Sinyuk A., Dubovik O., Smirnov A., Giles D., O'Neill N.T., Tsay S.-C., Ji Q., Al Mandoos A., Ramzan Khan M., Reid E.A., Schafer J.S., Sorokine M., Newcomb W., Slutsker I. Spatial and temporal variability of column-integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in summer. J. Geophys. Res. 2008, 113:D01204. 10.1029/2007JD008944.
15. Eck T.F., Holben B.N., Sinyuk A., Pinker R.T., Goloub P., Chen H., Chatenet B., Li Z., Singh R.P., Tripathi S.N., Reid J.S., Giles D.M., Dubovik O., O'Neill N.T., Smirnov A., Wang P., Xia X. Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse-mode aerosol mixtures. J. Geophys. Res. 2010, 115:D19205. 10.1029/2010JD014002.
16. El-Metwally M., Alfaro S.C., Abdel Wahab M.M., Favez O., Mohamed Z., Chatenet B. Aerosol properties and associated radiative effects over Cairo (Egypt). Atmos. Res. 2011, 99:263-276. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.10.017.
17. ErnestRaj P., Devara P.C.S., Maheskumar R.S., Pandithurai G., Dani K.K., Saha S.K., Sonbawne S.M., Tiwari Y.K. Results of sun photometer-derived precipitable water content over a tropical Indian station. J. Appl. Meteorol. 2004, 43:1452-1459.
18. Gadhavi H., Jayaraman A. Absorbing aerosols: contribution of biomass burning and implications for radiative forcing. Ann. Geophys. 2010, 28:103-111.
19. Ganguly D., Jayaraman A. Physical and optical properties of aerosols over an urban location in western India: implications for shortwave radiative forcing. J. Geophys. Res. 2006, 111:D24207. 10.1029/2006JD007393.
20. Ganguly D., Jayaraman A., Gadhavi H. Physical and optical properties of aerosols over an urban location in western India: seasonal variabilities. J. Geophys. Res. 2006, 111:D24206. 10.1029/2006JD007392.
21. Halthore R.N., et al. Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer codes and measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 2005, 110:D11206. 10.1029/2004JD005293.
22. Hatzianastassiou N., Katsoulis B., Vardavas I. Global distribution of aerosol direct radiative forcing in the ultraviolet and visible arising under clear skies. Tellus B 2004, 56:51-71.
23. Hess M., Koepke P., Schult I. Optical properties of aerosols and clouds: the software package OPAC. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 1998, 79:831-844.
24. Holben B.N., et al. AERONET - a federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization. Remote. Sens. Environ. 1998, 66(1):1-16.
25. Holben B.N., et al. An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: aerosol optical depth from AERONET. J. Geophys. Res. 2001, 106:12,067-12,097.
26. Ichoku C., Levy R., Kaufman Y.J., Remer L.A., Li R.-R., Martins V.J., Holben B.N., Abuhassan N., Slutsker I., Eck T.F., Pietras C. Analysis of the performance characteristics of the five-channel Microtops II sun photometer for measuring aerosol optical thickness and precipitable water. J. Geophys. Res. 2002, 107:D13. 10.1029/2001JD001302.
27. IPCC Climate Change 2001. The Scientific Basis 2001, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. J.T. Houghton, Y. Ding, D.J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P.J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, C.A. Johnson (Eds.).
28. IPCC Summary for policymakers, in Climate Change 2007: the Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007, 1-21. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K. S. Solomon (Ed.).
29. Kahn R.A., Gaitley B.J., Martonchik J.V., Diner D.J., Crean K.A., Holben B. MISR global aerosol optical depth validation based on two years of coincident AERONET observations. J. Geophys. Res. 2005, 110:D10S04. 10.1029/2004JD004706.
30. Kambezidis H.D., Kaskaoutis D.G. Aerosol climatology over four AERONET sites: an overview. Atmos. Environ. 2008, 42:1892-1906.
31. Kim D.H., Sohn B.-J., Nakajima T., Takamura T., Takemura T., Choi B.-C., Yoon S.-C. Aerosol optical properties over east Asia determined from ground-based sky radiation measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 2004, 109:D02209. 10.1029/2003JD003387.
32. Kleidman R.G., O'Neill N.T., Remer L.A., Kaufman Y.J., Eck T.F., Tanre' D., Dubovik O., Holben B.N. Comparison of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Aerosol Robotic Network( AERONET) remote-sensing retrievals of aerosol fine-mode fraction over ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 2005, 110:D22205. 10.1029/2005JD005760.
33. Kumar S., Devara P.C.S., Dani K.K., Sonbawne S.M., Saha S.K. Sun-sky radiometer-derived column-integrated aerosol optical and physical properties over a tropical urban station during 2004-2009. J. Geophys. Res. 2011, 116:D10201. 10.1029/2010JD014944.
34. Li Z., et al. Preface to special section on East Asian Studies of tropospheric aerosols: an international regional experiment (EAST-AIRE). J. Geophys. Res. 2007, 112:D22S00. 10.1029/2007JD008853.
35. Liou K.N. An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation 2002, Academic Press, San Diego. 2nd edition.
36. Liu J., Zheng Y., Li Z., Wu R. Ground-based remote sensing of aerosol optical properties in one city in Northwest China. Atmos. Res. 2008, 89:194-205. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.01.010.
37. Meloni D., di Sarra A., Pace G., Monteleone F. Aerosol optical properties at Lampedusa (central Mediterranean): 2. Determination of single scattering albedo at two wavelengths for different aerosol types. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2006, 6:715-727.
38. Moorthy K.K., Babu S.S., Satheesh S.K. Temporal heterogeneity in aerosol characteristics and the resulting radiative impact at a tropical coastal station. Part 1: microphysical and optical properties. Ann. Geophys. 2007, 25:2293-2308.
39. Myhre G. Consistency between satellite-derived and modeled estimates of the direct aerosol effect. Science 2009, 325:187-190. 10.1126/science.1174461.
40. Ogunjobi K.O., He Z., Simmer C. Spectral aerosol optical properties from AERONET Sun-photometric measurements over West Africa. Atmos. Res. 2008, 88:89-107. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.10.004.
41. Pandithurai G., Pinker R.T., Takamura T., Devara P.C.S. Aerosol radiative forcing over a tropical urban site in India. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2004, 31:L12107. 10.1029/2004GL019702.
42. Pant P., Hegde P., Dumka U.C., Sagar R., Satheesh S.K., Moorthy K.K., Saha A., Srivastava M.K. Aerosol characteristics at a high-altitude location during ISRO-GBP Land Campaign-II. Current Sc. 2006, 91(8):1053-1061.
43. Pant P., Hegde P., Dumka U.C., Sagar R., Satheesh S.K., Moorthy K.K., Saha A., Srivastava M.K. Aerosol characteristics at a high-altitude location in central Himalayas: optical properties and radiative forcing. J. Geophys. Res. 2006, 111:D17206.
44. Ramachandran S., Jayaraman A. Spectral aerosol optical depths over Bay of Bengal and Chennai: II-sources, anthropogenic influence and model estimates. Atmos. Environ. 2003, 37:1951-1962.
45. Ramana M.V., et al. The direct observations of large aerosol radiative forcing in the Himalayan region. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2004, 31:L05111. 10.1029/2003GL018824.
46. Remer L.A., et al. The MODIS aerosol algorithm, products, and validation. J. Atmos. Sci. 2005, 62:947-973.
47. Ricchiazzi P., Yang S., Gautier C., Sowle D. SBDART: a research and teaching software tool for plane-parallel radiative transfer in the Earth's atmosphere. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 1998, 79:2101-2114.
48. Safai P.D., Budhavant K.B., Rao P.S.P., Ali K., Sinha A. Source characterization for aerosol constituents and changing roles of calcium and ammonium aerosols in the neutralization of aerosol acidity at a semi-urban site in SW India. Atmos. Res. 2010, 98:78-88.
49. Satheesh S.K., Srinivasan J. A method to estimate radiative forcing from spectral optical depths. J. Atmos. Sci. 2006, 63:1082-1092.
50. Schaaf C.B., et al. First operational BRDF, albedo and nadir reflectance products from MODIS. Rem. Sens. Environ. 2002, 83:135-148. 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00091-3.
51. Schafer J.S., Eck T.F., Holben B.N., Artaxo P., Duarte A.F. Characterization of the optical properties of atmospheric aerosols in Amazonia from long-term AERONET monitoring (1993-1995 and 1999-2006). J. Geophys. Res. 2008, 113:D04204. 10.1029/2007JD009319.
52. Smirnov A., Holben B.N., Eck T.F., Dubovik O., Slutsker I. Cloud screening and quality control algorithms for the AERONET data base. Remote. Sens. Environ. 2000, 73:337-349.
53. Smirnov A., Holben B.N., Dubovik O., Frouin R., Eck T.F., Slutsker I. Maritime component in aerosol optical models derived from Aerosol Robotic Network data. J. Geophys. Res. 2003, 108:4033. 10.1029/2002JD002701.
54. Smirnov A., Holben B.N., Lyapustin A., Slutsker I., Eck T.F. AERONET processing algorithms refinement 2004, Paper presented at AERONET Workshop, El Arenosillo, Spain, 10-14 May.
55. Smirnov A., et al. Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean: comparison with satellite retrievals and GOCART model. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2006, 33:L14817. 10.1029/2006GL026051.
56. Sumit, K., Devara, P.C.S., submitted for publication. Aerosol modulation of atmospheric and surface solar heating over Pune: a long term study. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc.
57. Yu H., et al. A review of measurement-based assessments of aerosol direct radiative effect and forcing. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2006, 6:613-666. 10.5194/acp-6-613-2006.
58. Zhou M., Yu H., Dickinson R.E., Dubovik O., Holben B.N. A normalized description of the direct effect of key aerosol types on solar radiation as estimated from Aerosol Robotic Network aerosols and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer albedos. J. Geophys. Res. 2005, 110:D19202. 10.1029/2005JD005909.