An Observation-based Estimation of Dust Aerosol Net Direct Radiative Effects over the Tropical Northeast Atlantic and Sahara Desert


Qianqian Song, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States, Hongbin Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, United States, Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lorraine Remer, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States and Claire L Ryder, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom