Laboratory estimate of the regional shortwave refractive index and single scattering albedo of mineral dust from major sources worldwide
Claudia Di Biagio1, Paola Formenti2, Lorenzo Caponi3,4, Mathieu Cazaunau4, Edouard Pangui4, Emilie Journet4, Sophie Nowak5, Sandrine Caquineau6, Meinrat O Andreae7,8, Konrad Kandler9, Thuraya Saeed10, Stuart Piketh11, Dave Seibert12, Earle Williams13, Yves Balkanski14 and Jean-Francois Doussin4, (1)Université Paris Cité and Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LISA, F-75013 Paris, France, Paris, France, (2)Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), CNRS, Créteil, France, (3)Department of Physics&INFN, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, (4)Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), CNRS UMR7583, Universités Paris-Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Créteil, France, (5)Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, (6)UMR LOCEAN - IRD-Sorbonne Universités (UPMC Univ, Paris 06)-CNRS-MNHN, Paris, France, (7)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (8)King Saud University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (9)Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, Germany, (10)College of Basic Education, PAAET, Al-Ardeya, Kuwait, (11)North-West University, Unit for Environmental Science and Management, Potchefstroom, South Africa, (12)Walden University, Minneapolis, United States, (13)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (14)LSCE, CEA CNRS UVSQ, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
