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"

<p>These data are used for "&nbsp;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 ".&nbsp;</p> <p>(1)&nbsp; AS83+OPAC: The control experiment, dust PSD is the original AS83, and the generic CRI is from OPAC.&nbsp;</p> <p>(2) &nbsp;BFT22+OPAC: Same as the control experiment, but the PSD is updated to use BFT22.</p> <p>(3) &nbsp;BFT22+DB: Same as the experiment BFT22+OPAC, but the generic OPAC CRI is replaced by nine regionally dependent DB CRIs.</p> <p>(4) &nbsp;BFT22+DB strong abs: Same as the experiment BFT22+DB, but the generic CRI consists of 10% percentile real and 90% percentile imaginary parts and no regional dependencies.</p> <p>(5) &nbsp;BFT22+DB weak abs: Same as the experiment BFT22+DB, but the generic CRI consists of 90% percentile real and 10% percentile imaginary parts and no regional dependencies.</p> <p>All experiments mentioned above are run for 5 years (2010-2014).&nbsp;The annual average simulation results are stored here.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> AS83 represents the dust PSD scheme from d'Almeida and Sch&uuml;tz. (1983). BFT22 represents the new dust PSD developed by Meng et al. (2022) based on the improved brittle fragmentation theory. OPAC: the Optical Properties for Aerosols and Clouds dataset, DB: the CRIs from Di Biagio et al. (2017, 2019).</p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>d'Almeida, G. A., &amp; Sch&uuml;tz, L. (1983). Number, Mass and Volume Distributions of Mineral Aerosol and Soils of the Sahara. <em>Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology</em>,<em> 22</em>(2), 233-243. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1983)022&lt;0233:NMAVDO&gt;2.0.CO;2</p> <p>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. <em>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics</em>,<em> 19</em>(24), 15503-15531. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15503-2019</p> <p>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. <em>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics</em>,<em> 17</em>(3), 1901-1929. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1901-2017</p> <p>Meng, J., Huang, Y., Leung, D. M., Li, L., Adebiyi, A. A., Ryder, C. L., et al. (2022). Improved Parameterization for the Size Distribution of Emitted Dust Aerosols Reduces Model Underestimation of Super Coarse Dust. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(8), e2021GL097287, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097287</p>