Spatiotemporal variation of aerosol and potential long-range transport impact over Tibetan Plateau, China
Spatiotemporal variation of aerosol and potential long-range transport impact over Tibetan Plateau, China
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10.5194/acp-2019-444
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2019
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Jun Zhu;X. Xia;H. Che;Jun Wang;Z. Cong;T. Zhao;Shi-chang Kang;Xuelei Zhang;Xingna Yu;
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Jun Zhu;X. Xia;H. Che;Jun Wang;Z. Cong;T. Zhao;Shi-chang Kang;Xuelei Zhang;Xingna Yu;
Abstract. The long-term temporal-spatial variations of aerosol optical properties in Tibetan Plateau (TP) and the potential long-range transport from surrounding areas to TP were analyzed in this work, by using multiple years of sunphotometer measurements (CE318) at five stations in TP, satellite aerosol productions from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), back-trajectory analysis from the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) and model simulation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS)-Chem chemistry transport model. The results from ground-based observations show that the annual aerosol optical depth (AOD) at most TP sites increased in the past decades with trends of 0.001 ± 0.003/year at Lhasa, 0.013 ± 0.003/year at Mt_WLG, 0.002 ± 0.002/year at NAM_CO, and 0.000 ± 0.002/year at QOMS_CAS. The increasing trend is also found for the aerosol Extinction Ångstrom exponent (EAE) at most sites, except for Mt_WLG sites with an obvious decreasing trend. Spatially, the AOD observed from MODIS shows negative trends in the northwest edge closed to the Taklimakan Desert and east of the Qaidam Basin and slightly positive trends in most of the other area of TP. Different aerosol types and sources contribute to the polluted day (with CE318 AOD at 440 nm > 0.4) in the five sites of TP: dust dominant in Lhasa, Mt_WLG and Muztagh with sources from the Taklimakan Desert but fine aerosol pollution dominant at NAM_CO and QOMS_CAS with the transport from South Asia. A case of aerosol pollution at Lhasa, NAM_CO and QOMS_CAS during 28 April–3 May 2016 reveals that the smoke aerosols in South Asia were lifted up to 10 km and transported to TP, while the dust from Taklimakan Desert could climb the north slope of TP and then be transported to center TP. The long-range transport thereby seriously impact aerosol loading over the TP.