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Observation and quantification of aerosol outflow from southern Africa using spaceborne lidar
Matthew J.
McGill
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5486-3811
Robert J.
Swap
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Department of Environmental Sciences and Management, North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4353-4163
John E.
Yorks
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-0708
Patrick A.
Selmer
Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, Maryland, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3519-0599
Stuart J.
Piketh
Department of Environmental Sciences and Management, North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-879X
Biomass burning in Africa provides a prolific source of aerosols that are transported from the source region to distant areas, as far away as South America and Australia. Models have long predicted the primary outflow and transport routes. Over time, field studies have validated the basic production and dynamics that underlie these transport patterns. In more recent years, the advancement of spaceborne active remote-sensing techniques has allowed for more detailed verification of the models and, importantly,verification of the vertical distribution of the aerosols in the transport regions, particularly with respect to westerly transport over the Atlantic Ocean. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) lidar on the International Space Station has detection sensitivity that provides observations that support long-held theories of aerosol transport from the African subcontinent over the remote Indian Ocean and as far downstream as Australia.
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