期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 40, 期 10, 页码 2433-2438出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50482
关键词
dust; aircraft measurements; transport; saharan air layer; deposition; size distribution
资金
- UK NERC [NE/G017166]
- EUFAR
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G015937/1, NE/G017166/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/G015937/1, NE/G017166/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Saharan dust affects the climate by altering the radiation balance and by depositing minerals to the Atlantic Ocean. Both are dependent on particle size. We present aircraft measurements comprising 42 profiles of size distribution (0.1-300 mu m), representing freshly uplifted dust, regional aged dust, and dust in the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) over the Canary Islands. The mean effective diameter of dust in SAL profiles is 4.5 mu m smaller than that in freshly uplifted dust, while the vertical structure changes from a low shallow layer (0-1.5km) to a well-mixed deep Saharan dust layer (0-5km). Size distributions show a loss of 60 to 90% of particles larger than 30 mu m 12h after uplift. The single scattering albedo (SSA) increases from 0.92 to 0.94 to 0.95 between fresh, aged, and SAL profiles: this is enough to alter heating rates by 26%. Some fresh dust close to the surface shows SSA as low as 0.85.
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