Variations and tendencies of cloud, aerosol and solar radiation in the past decades over East of the Asian Part of Russia based on surface and satellite data records

Abstract

Abstract The results of studies of atmospheric aerosol over the territory of Russia are of great interest from the point of view of environmental and climatic problems. The article presents the results of the spatial-temporal variability of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) over the Asian Part (AP) of the Russian Federation in recent decades. The Database (DB) “Aerosol optical thickness of the atmosphere from satellite and ground-based observations” created by the authors was used. The presented trends in AOT changes (annual values, summer values) and statistical estimates of real empirical series show that there is a good agreement between the annual values of AOT for satellite and ground-based values, for monthly values the discrepancy has more value. Based on observational and reanalysis data, the interannual variability of the average annual and average summer values of the total radiation flux coming to the surface was studied. The empirical typification of interannual changes in the intra-annual course of the cloud cover values (%) over the considered time interval was carried out. The analysis was performed for the Tiksi Arctic station and for the Yakutsk, Ussuriysk, Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg stations located in the AP of the Russian Federation.