Observations and Modeling of Asian and Northern Pacific Dust Sources and Transports


Dongchul Kim1, Mian Chin2, Hongbin Yu2, Xiaohua Pan3, Huisheng Bian4, Qian Tan5, Ralph A Kahn6, Kostas Tsigaridis7, Susanne Bauer8, Toshihiko Takemura9, Luca Pozzoli10, Nicolas Bellouin11 and Michael Schulz12, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC/GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, San Jose, CA, United States, (6)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Columbia University, New York, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (9)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (10)European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, (11)University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (12)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Climate and Air Pollution Section, Oslo, Norway