Modeling East Asian Dust and Its Radiative Feedbacks in CAM4-BAM

Xie, Xiaoning; Liu, Xiaodong; Che, Huizheng; Xie, Xiaoxun; Wang, Hongli; Li, Jiandong; Shi, Zhengguo; Liu, Yangang

doi:10.1002/2017JD027343

Modeling East Asian Dust and Its Radiative Feedbacks in CAM4-BAM

Journal Article · Wed Jan 17 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027343· OSTI ID:1424979

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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xi'an (China). Shaanxi Key Lab. of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Technology and Application (SKLLQG) and Inst. of Earth Environment
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xi'an (China). Shaanxi Key Lab. of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Technology and Application (SKLLQG) and Inst. of Earth Environment; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). College of Earth Sciences
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, (CMA), Beijing (China). Key Lab. for Atmospheric Chemistry, Inst. of Atmospheric Composition
Shaanxi Radio and TV Univ., Xi'an (China). School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Inst. of Atmospheric Physics
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Environmental and Climate Sciences Dept.

East Asian dust and its radiative feedbacks are analyzed by the use of the fourth version of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM4) with a bulk aerosol model parameterization (BAM) for the dust size distribution (CAM4-BAM). Two numerical experiments are conducted and intercompared: one with (Active) and one without (Passive) the radiative effects of dust aerosols. This CAM4-BAM captures the main spatial distribution of the dust aerosol optical depth (AOD) and the dust surface concentrations over East Asia, with positive correlations with the local observational data on annual and seasonal means. A comparative analysis of the Active and Passive experiments reveals that consideration of the dust-radiation interaction can significantly reduce dust emissions, loading, transport, and dry and wet depositions over East Asia, which is opposite to the enhanced dust cycle over North Africa. Further analysis of the contrasting dust-radiation feedbacks between North Africa and East Asia shows that over North Africa, the dust radiative forcing significantly increases the surface temperature and 10-m wind speed, whereas it decreases the surface temperature and the surface wind speeds over East Asia. These contrasting radiative effects, in turn, result in distinct dust cycle changes over these two regions. Thus, mechanistic analysis reveals that the radiative contrasts between East Asia and North Africa are mainly due to the differences in their regional surface albedo, dust vertical distribution and size distribution.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23); National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1424979

Report Number(s):: BNL-200024-2018-JAAM

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 123; ISSN 2169-897X

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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