An evaluation of mineral dust aerosols in climate models

The extensive inter-comparison of mineral dust modelling within CRESCENDO-ESMs is now online in ACP journal: Evaluation of mineral dust in ESMs. The paper Checa-Garcia et al. (2021) analyses several aspects of the global dust cycle: emission, transport, deposition but also surface concentrations and mineral dust optical depths. It compares models with respect to several networks of instruments and satellite retrievals.


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  • R. Checa-Garcia, Y. Balkanski, S. Albani, T. Bergman, K. Carslaw, A. Cozic, C. Dearden, B. Marticorena, M. Michou, T. van Noije, P. Nabat, F. O'Connor, D. Olivié, J. M. Prospero, P. Le Sager, M. Schulz, and C. Scott. Evaluation of natural aerosols in crescendo-esms: mineral dust. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21:10295–10335, 2021. URL: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/10295/2021/acp-21-10295-2021.html, doi:10.5194/acp-21-10295-2021. ↩