Radiative impact of mineral dust on monsoon precipitation variability over West Africa
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In this paper, the radiative forcing of dust and its impact on precipitation over the West Africa monsoon (WAM) region is simulated using a coupled meteorology and aerosol/chemistry model (WRF-Chem).Abstract:
The radiative forcing of dust and its impact on precipitation over the West Africa monsoon (WAM) region is simulated using a coupled meteorology and aerosol/chemistry model (WRF-Chem). During the mon- soon season, dust is a dominant contributor to aerosol optical depth (AOD) over West Africa. In the control simulation, on 24-h domain average, dust has a cool- ing effect ( 6.11 W m 2 ) at the surface, a warming effect (6.94 W m 2 ) in the atmosphere, and a relatively small TOA forcing (0.83 W m 2 ). Dust modifies the surface energy bud- get and atmospheric diabatic heating. As a result, atmo- spheric stability is increased in the daytime and reduced in the nighttime, leading to a reduction of late afternoon pre- cipitation by up to 0.14 mm/h (25%) and an increase of noc- turnal and early morning precipitation by up to 0.04 mm/h (45%) over the WAM region. Dust-induced reduction of diurnal precipitation variation improves the simulated diur- nal cycle of precipitation when compared to measurements. However, daily precipitation is only changed by a relatively small amount ( 0.17 mm/day or 4%). The dust-induced change of WAM precipitation is not sensitive to interannual monsoon variability. On the other hand, sensitivity simula- tions with weaker to stronger absorbing dust (in order to rep- resent the uncertainty in dust solar absorptivity) show that, at the lower atmosphere, dust longwave warming effect in the nighttime surpasses its shortwave cooling effect in the daytime; this leads to a less stable atmosphere associated with more convective precipitation in the nighttime. As a result, the dust-induced change of daily WAM precipitation varies from a significant reduction of 0.52 mm/day ( 12%, weaker absorbing dust) to a small increase of 0.03 mm/day (1%, stronger absorbing dust). This variation originates from the competition between dust impact on daytime and night-read more
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