Remotely Sensed Retrievals for Fractional Abundance of Quartz and Feldspar to Assess the Influence on Radiative Forcing in Earth System Models
Remotely Sensed Retrievals for Fractional Abundance of Quartz and Feldspar to Assess the Influence on Radiative Forcing in Earth System Models
Kathleen Grant1,2, Natalie M Mahowald3, Ron L Miller4, Carlos Pérez García-Pando5,6, Maria Gonçalves5,7, Longlei Li3, Vincenzo Obiso8, David R Thompson9, Robert O Green2, Raymond F Kokaly10, Bernard Emanuel Hubbard11, A. Joshua West1 and Philip G Brodrick2, (1)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (5)Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain, (6)Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain, (7)Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Project and Construction Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (8)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (10)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (11)USGS, Reston, VA, United States