Biomass Burning Aerosol Vertical Distribution Over the South African-Atlantic Region: Perspectives from Multi-Models and CALIOP Observations

Sampa Das1, Huisheng Bian2, Harshvardhan Harshvardhan3, Mian Chin4, Gabriele Curci5, Tero Mielonen6, Kai Zhang7, Hailong Wang7 and Xiaohong Liu8, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of L'Aquila, CETEMPS, Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, L'Aquila, Italy, (6)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (8)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States