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.