Aerosol characteristics and surface radiative forcing components during a dust outbreak in Gwangju, Republic of Korea |
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Authors: | K O Ogunjobi Y J Kim |
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Institution: | Advanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMRC), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 500-712, South Korea. jobik2000@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: | Atmospheric surface aerosol radiative forcing (SARF) ΔF, forcing efficiency ΔFe and fractional forcing efficiency ΔFFe evaluated from cloud-screened narrowband spectral and thermal-offset-corrected radiometric observations during the Asia dust
outbreak episodes in Gwangju, Republic of Korea are reported in this study. Columnar aerosol optical properties (aerosol optical
depth (AOD), τ
aλ, Angstrom exponent α, mass concentration of fine and coarse mode particles) were also reported for the station between January
2000 and May 2001 consisting of 211cloud-free days. Results indicate that majority of the AOD were within the range 0.25–0.45
while some high aerosol events in which AODs ≥ 0.6 were observed during the severe dust episodes. For example, AOD increases
from annual average value of 0.34 ± 0.13 at 501 nm to values >0.60 during the major dust events of March 27–30 and April 7–9,
2000, respectively. The α
501–870 nm which is often used as a qualitative indicator of aerosol particle size had values ranging from 0.01 to 1.77. The diurnal
forcing efficiency ΔDFe at Gwangju was estimated to be −81.10 ± 5.14 W m −2/τ
501 nm and −47.09 ± 2.20 W m −2/τ
501 nm for the total solar broadband and visible band pass, respectively while the fractional diurnal forcing efficiency ΔFDFe were −15.8 ± 0.64%/τ
501 nm and −22.87 ± 1.13%/τ
501 nm for the same band passes. Analyses of the 5-day air-mass back trajectories were further developed for Gwangju in order to
classify the air-mass and types of aerosol reaching the site during the Asia dust episodes. |
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Keywords: | Radiative forcing Forcing efficiency Aerosols Albedo Asia dust Air-mass trajectory |
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