Transport, vertical structure and radiative properties of dust events in southeast China determined from ground and space sensors

Two dust events were detected over the Yangtze Delta region of China during March 14e17 and April 25e26 in 2009 where such dust events are uncommon. The transport behavior, spatio-temporal evolution, vertical structure, direct radiative effects, as well as induced heating rates, are investigated using a combination of ground-based and satellite-based measurements, a back-trajectory analysis, an aerosol model and a radiative transfer model. Back-trajectories, wind fields and aerosol model analyses show that the first dust originated in northern/northwestern China and the second generated in the Taklimakan desert in northwest China, and traveled across the Hexi corridor and Loess Plateau to the Yangtze Delta region (the so-called “dust corridor”). The mean lidar extinction-to-backscatter ratio (LR) during the two dust events was 38.7 � 10.4 sr and 42.7 � 15.2 sr, respectively. The mean aerosol depolarization ratio ( da )f or thefirst dust event was 0.16 � 0.07, with a maximum value of 0.32. For the second, the mean da was around 0.19 � 0.06, with a maximum value of 0.29. Aerosol extinction coefficient and da profiles for the two events were similar: two aerosol layers consisting of dust aerosols and a mixture of dust and anthropogenic pollution aerosols. The topmost aerosol layer is above 3.5 km. The maximum mean aerosol extinction coefficients were 0.5 km �1 and 0.54 km �1 at about 0.7 km and 1.1 km, respectively. Significant effects of cooling at the surface and heating in the atmosphere were found during these dust events. Diurnal mean shortwave radiative forcings (efficiencies) at the surface, the top-of-the-atmosphere and within the atmosphere were � 36.8 (� 80.0), � 13.6 (� 29.6) and 23.2 (50.4) Wm �2 , respectively, during the first dust event, and � 48.2 (� 70.9), � 21.4 (� 31.5) and 26.8 (39.4) Wm �2 , respectively, during the second dust event. Maximum heating rates occurred at 0.7 km during the first dust event and at 1.1 km during the second dust event, with a maximum value of 2.74 K day �1 for each

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