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DOI10.5194/acp-19-10497-2019
Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth
Che, Huizheng1,2; Gui, Ke1,2,3; Xia, Xiangao3,4; Wang, Yaqiang1,2; Holben, Brent N.5; Goloub, Philippe6; Cuevas-Agullo, Emilio7; Wang, Hong1,2; Zheng, Yu1,2,8; Zhao, Hujia1,2; Zhang, Xiaoye1,2
发表日期2019
ISSN1680-7316
EISSN1680-7324
卷号19期号:16页码:10497-10523
英文摘要

Aerosol optical depth (AOD) has become a crucial metric for assessing global climate change. Although global and regional AOD trends have been studied extensively, it remains unclear what factors are driving the inter-decadal variations in regional AOD and how to quantify the relative contribution of each dominant factor. This study used a long-term (1980-2016) aerosol dataset from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis, along with two satellite-based AOD datasets (MODIS/Terra and MISR) from 2001 to 2016, to investigate the long-term trends in global and regional aerosol loading. Statistical models based on emission factors and meteorological parameters were developed to identify the main factors driving the inter-decadal changes of regional AOD and to quantify their contribution. Evaluation of the MERRA-2 AOD with the ground-based measurements of AERONET indicated significant spatial agreement on the global scale (r = 0.85, root-mean-square error = 0.12, mean fractional error = 38.7 %, fractional gross error = 9.86 % and index of agreement = 0.94). However, when AOD observations from the China Aerosol Remote Sensing Network (CARSNET) were employed for independent verification, the results showed that MERRA-2 AODs generally underestimated CARSNET AODs in China (relative mean bias = 0.72 and fractional gross error = -34.3 %). In general, MERRA-2 was able to quantitatively reproduce the annual and seasonal AOD trends on both regional and global scales, as observed by MODIS/Terra, although some differences were found when compared to MISR. Over the 37-year period in this study, significant decreasing trends were observed over Europe and the eastern United States. In contrast, eastern China and southern Asia showed AOD increases, but the increasing trend of the former reversed sharply in the most recent decade. The statistical analyses suggested that the meteorological parameters explained a larger proportion of the AOD variability (20.4 %-72.8 %) over almost all regions of interest (ROIs) during 1980-2014 when compared with emission factors (0 %-56 %). Further analysis also showed that SO2 was the dominant emission factor, explaining 12.7 %-32.6 % of the variation in AOD over anthropogenic-aerosol-dominant regions, while black carbon or organic carbon was the leading factor over the biomass-burning-dominant (BBD) regions, contributing 24.0 %-27.7 % of the variation. Additionally, wind speed was found to be the leading meteorological parameter, explaining 11.8 %-30.3 % of the variance over the mineral-dust-dominant regions, while ambient humidity (including soil moisture and relative humidity) was the top meteorological parameter over the BBD regions, accounting for 11.7 %-35.5 % of the variation. The results of this study indicate that the variation in meteorological parameters is a key factor in determining the inter-decadal change in regional AOD.


WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
来源期刊ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/102043
作者单位1.CMA, Chinese Acad Meteorol Sci, State Key Lab Severe Weather LASW, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China;
2.CMA, Chinese Acad Meteorol Sci, Key Lab Atmospher Chem LAC, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China;
3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China;
4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, Key Lab Middle Atmosphere & Global Environm Obser, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China;
5.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA;
6.Univ Sci & Technol Lille, Lab Opt Amospher, F-59655 Villeneuve Dascq, France;
7.AEMET, Ctr Invest Atmosfer Izana, Santa Cruz De Tenerife 38001, Spain;
8.Nanjing Univ Informat Sci & Technol, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Forecast & Evaluat Meteoro, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
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Che, Huizheng,Gui, Ke,Xia, Xiangao,et al. Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth[J],2019,19(16):10497-10523.
APA Che, Huizheng.,Gui, Ke.,Xia, Xiangao.,Wang, Yaqiang.,Holben, Brent N..,...&Zhang, Xiaoye.(2019).Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,19(16),10497-10523.
MLA Che, Huizheng,et al."Large contribution of meteorological factors to inter-decadal changes in regional aerosol optical depth".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 19.16(2019):10497-10523.
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