Dataset used for climatology of aerosol components concentration derived by GRASP algorithm from POLDER-3 observations

Dataset used for climatology of aerosol components concentration derived by GRASP algorithm from POLDER-3 observations

1. POLDER-3/GRASP aerosol component columnar volume concentration (0.001 mm3/m2) products (0.1 x 0.1 degree) for 2005-2013

Black carbon (BC) in fine mode

Brown carbon (BrC) in fine mode

Insoluble component in fine mode

Soluble component in fine mode

Aerosol water content in fine mode

Absorbing component (iron in dust) in coarse mode

Insoluble scattering component (mainly scattering dust) in coarse mode

2.  Climatology of POLDER-3/GRASP aerosol component products (0.1 x 0.1 degree) in different seasons for 2005-2013

DJF (December-January-February ) season

MAM (March-April-May) season

JJA (June-July-August) season

SON (September-October-November) season

Columnar mass concentration can be calculated from volume concentration by the component density. Here, the density suggested is 1.8 g/cm3 for BC, 1.2 g/cm3 for BrC, 1.8 g/cm3 for fine mode insoluble component, 1.76 g/cm3 for fine mode soluble component, 1.0 g/cm3 for fine mode aerosol water, 2.5 g/cm3 for coarse mode insoluble component, 4.8 g/cm3 for coarse mode absorbing component.

Please follow the data policy of each data source:

POLDER-3/GRASP: GRASP-OPEN (https://www.grasp-open.com/products/)

 Details can be found in manuscript:

Lei Li, Yevgeny Derimian, Cheng Chen, Xindan Zhang, Huizheng Che, Gregory L. Schuster, David Fuertes, Pavel Litvinov, Tatyana Lapyonok, Anton Lopatin, Christian Matar, Fabrice Ducos, Yana Karol, Benjamin Torres, Ke Gui, Yu Zheng, Yuanxin Liang, Yadong Lei, Jibiao Zhu, Lei Zhang, Junting Zhong, Xiaoye Zhang, and Oleg Dubovik. Climatology of aerosol components concentration derived by GRASP algorithm from multi-angular polarimetric POLDER-3 observations. submitted to ESSD, 2022.