An Observation-based Estimation of Dust Aerosol Net Direct Radiative Effects over the Tropical Northeast Atlantic and Sahara Desert
Qianqian Song1, Zhibo Zhang2, Hongbin Yu3, Seiji Kato4, Ping Yang5, Peter Richard Colarco3, Lorraine Remer6 and Claire L Ryder7, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (5)Texas A&M Univ, College Station, United States, (6)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States, (7)University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom