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Aerosol optical properties and its radiative forcing over Yulin, China in 2001 and 2002

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The aerosol optical properties and direct radiative forcing over the Mu Us desert of northern China, acquired through a CE318 sunphotometer of the ground-based Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), are analyzed. The seasonal variations in the aerosol optical properties are examined. The effect of meteorological elements (pressure, temperature, water vapor pressure, relative humidity and wind speed) on the aerosol optical properties is also studied. Then, the sources and optical properties under two different cases, a dust event and a pollution event, are compared. The results show that the high aerosol optical depth (AOD) found in Yulin was mostly attributed to the occurrence of dust events in spring from the Mu Us desert and deserts of West China and Mongolia, as well as the impacts of anthropogenic pollutant particles from the middle part of China in the other seasons. The seasonal variation and the probability distribution of the radiative forcing and the radiative forcing efficiency at the surface and the top of the atmosphere are analyzed and regressed using the linear and Gaussian regression methods.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Centre for Atmosphere Watch and Services, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, 100081, China

    Huizheng Che  (车慧正) & Xiaoye Zhang  (张小曳)

  2. Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systémes Atmosphériques, Université Paris VII/Paris XII, 94010, Créteil Cedex, France

    Stephane Alfraro & Bernadette Chatenet

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Metéo-France/CNRM/GMEI/MNPCA, 31057, Toulouse, France

    Laurent Gomes

  4. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Jianqi Zhao  (赵剑琦)

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Che, H., Zhang, X., Alfraro, S. et al. Aerosol optical properties and its radiative forcing over Yulin, China in 2001 and 2002. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 26, 564–576 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-009-0564-4

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