Background aerosol over the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau: observed characteristics of aerosol mass loading

Bin Liu1, Zhiyuan Cong2, Yuesi Wang3, Jinyuan Xin3, Xin Wan1, Yuepeng Pan3, Zirui Liu4, Yonghong Wang5, Guoshuai Zhang1 and Shichang Kang1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Tibetan Plateau R, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)IAP, CAS, Beijing, China, (5)CAS-IAP, Beijing, China