Quantifying the range of the dust direct radiative effect due to source mineralogy uncertainty
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Published:2021-03-17
Issue:5
Volume:21
Page:3973-4005
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ISSN:1680-7324
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Container-title:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Atmos. Chem. Phys.
Author:
Li Longlei, Mahowald Natalie M., Miller Ron L.ORCID, Pérez García-Pando CarlosORCID, Klose MartinaORCID, Hamilton Douglas S.ORCID, Gonçalves Ageitos MariaORCID, Ginoux PaulORCID, Balkanski YvesORCID, Green Robert O., Kalashnikova Olga, Kok Jasper F.ORCID, Obiso Vincenzo, Paynter DavidORCID, Thompson David R.ORCID
Abstract
Abstract. The large uncertainty in the mineral dust direct radiative effect (DRE) hinders projections of future climate change due to anthropogenic activity. Resolving modeled dust mineral speciation allows for spatially and temporally varying refractive indices consistent with dust aerosol composition. Here, for the first time, we quantify the range in dust DRE at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) due to current uncertainties in the surface soil mineralogical content using a dust mineral-resolving climate model. We propagate observed uncertainties in soil mineral abundances from two soil mineralogy atlases along with the optical properties of each mineral into the DRE and compare the resultant range with other sources of uncertainty across six climate models. The shortwave DRE responds region-specifically to the dust burden depending on the mineral speciation and underlying shortwave surface albedo: positively when the regionally averaged annual surface albedo is larger than 0.28 and negatively otherwise. Among all minerals examined, the shortwave TOA DRE and single scattering albedo at the 0.44–0.63 µm band are most sensitive to the fractional contribution of iron oxides to the total dust composition. The global net (shortwave plus longwave) TOA DRE is estimated to be within −0.23 to +0.35 W m−2. Approximately 97 % of this range relates to uncertainty in the soil abundance of iron oxides. Representing iron oxide with solely hematite optical properties leads to an overestimation of shortwave DRE by +0.10 W m−2 at the TOA, as goethite is not as absorbing as hematite in the shortwave spectrum range. Our study highlights the importance of iron oxides to the shortwave DRE: they have a disproportionally large impact on climate considering their small atmospheric mineral mass fractional burden (∼2 %). An improved description of iron oxides, such as those planned in the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), is thus essential for more accurate estimates of the dust DRE.
Funder
National Science Foundation European Commission European Research Council H2020 European Research Council AXA Research Fund Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Atmospheric Science
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