[HTML][HTML] Status and future of numerical atmospheric aerosol prediction with a focus on data requirements

A Benedetti, JS Reid, P Knippertz… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Numerical prediction of aerosol particle properties has become an important activity at many
research and operational weather centers. This development is due to growing interest from …

[HTML][HTML] The CLoud–Aerosol–Radiation interaction and forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign

JM Haywood, SJ Abel, PA Barrett… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The representations of clouds, aerosols, and cloud–aerosol–radiation impacts remain some
of the largest uncertainties in climate change, limiting our ability to accurately reconstruct …

Quantifying anthropogenic dust emissions

NP Webb, C Pierre - Earth's Future, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic land use and land cover change, including local environmental disturbances,
moderate rates of wind‐driven soil erosion and dust emission. These human‐dust cycle …

Air quality forecasts improved by combining data assimilation and machine learning with satellite AOD

S Lee, S Park, MI Lee, G Kim, J Im… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) data assimilation (DA) using numerical air quality
forecast models has shown a limited improvement due to large uncertainties in the AOD …

Models transport Saharan dust too low in the atmosphere: a comparison of the MetUM and CAMS forecasts with observations

D O'Sullivan, F Marenco, CL Ryder… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
We investigate the dust forecasts from two operational global atmospheric models in
comparison with in situ and remote sensing measurements obtained during the AERosol …

Remote sensing and modelling analysis of the extreme dust storm hitting the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean in September 2015

S Solomos, A Ansmann, RE Mamouri… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
The extreme dust storm that affected the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean in
September 2015 resulted in record-breaking dust loads over Cyprus with aerosol optical …

[HTML][HTML] Assimilating aerosol optical properties related to size and absorption from POLDER/PARASOL with an ensemble data assimilation system

A Tsikerdekis, NAJ Schutgens… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
A data assimilation system for aerosol, based on an ensemble Kalman filter, has been
developed for the ECHAM–Hamburg Aerosol Model (ECHAM-HAM) global aerosol model …

African lightning and its relation to rainfall and climate change in a convection‐permitting model

DL Finney, JH Marsham, JM Wilkinson… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate models struggle to simulate both the convection and cloud ice fundamental to
lightning formation. We use the first convection‐permitting, future climate simulations for the …

An overview of triggering mechanisms and characteristics of local strong sandstorms in China and haboobs

Z Gu, Y He, Y Zhang, J Su, R Zhang, CW Yu, D Zhang - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
The local strong sandstorms (LSS), similar to haboobs in Sahara and the North America,
often occur suddenly, in tens of minutes during the late afternoon, and before dusk in deserts …

Satellite‐derived characteristics of Saharan cold pool outflows during boreal summer

T Caton Harrison, R Washington… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cold pool outflows (CPOs) are thought to be the most significant meteorological mechanism
of mineral dust emission from the world's largest source in the central and western Sahara in …