Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-607-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-607-2019
Research article
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30 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2019

Technical note: Absorption aerosol optical depth components from AERONET observations of mixed dust plumes

Sung-Kyun Shin, Matthias Tesche, Detlef Müller, and Youngmin Noh

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We present a methodology to infer the contribution of mineral dust and non-dust aerosol to the absorbing aerosol optical depth (AAOD) of mixed aerosol layers. The method presents an adaptation of a lidar-based aerosol-type separation technique to passive measurements with AERONET sun photometers by using lidar-specific parameters obtained from the AERONET inversion. The findings on BC-related AAOD are compared to CAMS aerosol reanalysis data with promising results for sites in east Asia.