Aerosol properties above clouds over the South East Atlantic Ocean during the fire season: comparison between observations from POLDER/PARASOL and AeroCom models

Fanny Peers1, Nicolas Bellouin2, Fabien Waquet3, Fabrice Ducos4, Philippe Goloub5, James Mollard6, Gunnar Myhre7, Ragnhild B Skeie7, Toshihiko Takemura8, Didier D Tanre9, Francois Thieuleux10 and Kai Zhang11, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Lille, France, (4)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/University of Lille, Lille, France, (5)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (6)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (7)CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway, (8)Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, (9)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France, (10)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (11)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States