Evaluation of dust emission and transport simulated by global climate models with satellite observations from CALIOP, MODIS, and MISR

Mingxuan Wu1, Xiaohong Liu1, Kang Yang2, Yang Shi1, Anton Darmenov3, Hongbin Yu4, Zhien Wang5, Tao Luo6, Hailong Wang7, Yan Feng8, Chenglai Wu9 and Ziming Ke10, (1)University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Optics, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (8)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, (9)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (10)University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States