Effect of Vertical Profile of Aerosols on the Local Shortwave Radiative Forcing Estimation

• Published in: Atmosphere
• Main Authors: Francisco Molero, Alfonso Javier Fernández, María Aránzazu Revuelta, Isabel Martínez-Marco, Manuel Pujadas, Begoña Artíñano
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: aerosols; radiative forcing; lidar; vertical profile; libRadTran; Boa; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12020187

In this work, the effect of the aerosol vertical distribution on the local shortwave aerosol radiative forcing is studied. We computed the radiative forcing at the top and bottom of the atmosphere between 0.2 and 4 microns using the libRadTran package and compared the results with those provided by...