The data used for "Exploring how differences in dust particle size distribution and complex refractive indices affect dust direct radiative fluxes using the CAS-FGOALS-SPRINTARS global climate model"

These data are used for " Exploring how differences in dust particle size distribution (PSD) and complex refractive indices (CRI) affect direct radiative effect (DRE) using the CAS-FGOALS-SPRINTARS global climate model ". (1) AS83+OPAC: The control experiment, dust PSD is the original AS83, and the generic CRI is from OPAC. (2) Kok17+OPAC: Same as the control experiment, but the PSD is updated to Kok17. (3) KoK17+DB: Same as the experiment Kok17+OPAC, but the generic OPAC CRI is replaced by nine regionally dependent DB CRIs. All experiments mentioned above are run for 5 years (2010-2014). The annual average simulation results are stored here. Note: AS83 and Kok17 represent the dust PSD scheme from d'Almeida and Schütz. (1983) and Kok et al. (2017), respectively. OPAC: the Optical Properties for Aerosols and Clouds dataset, DB: the CRIs from Di Biagio et al. (2017, 2019). References d'Almeida, G. A., & Schütz, L. (1983). Number, Mass and Volume Distributions of Mineral Aerosol and Soils of the Sahara. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 22(2), 233-243. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1983)022<0233:NMAVDO>2.0.CO;2 Di Biagio, C., Formenti, P., Balkanski, Y., Caponi, L., Cazaunau, M., Pangui, E., et al. (2019). Complex refractive indices and single-scattering albedo of global dust aerosols in the shortwave spectrum and relationship to size and iron content. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(24), 15503-15531. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15503-2019 Di Biagio, C., Formenti, P., Balkanski, Y., Caponi, L., Cazaunau, M., Pangui, E., et al. (2017). Global scale variability of the mineral dust long-wave refractive index: a new dataset of in situ measurements for climate modeling and remote sensing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(3), 1901-1929. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1901-2017 Kok, J. F., Ridley, D. A., Zhou, Q., Miller, R. L., Zhao, C., Heald, C. L., et al. (2017). Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance. Nature Geoscience, 10(4), 274-278. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2912