Desert Dust Profiling and Applications (Invited)

Lidar depolarization sensitivity can be leveraged for aerosol typing and discrimination of desert dust in aerosol mixtures. In the talk, the progress on dust profiling from ground and space will be presented along with its applications on estimating the dust impact on radiation and cloud formation. Furthermore, the impact of dust profiling assimilation is discussed for atmospheric composition and NWP applications. Finally, suggestions are given on how to leverage over the past, current and forthcoming lidar space missions to construct a 3D climate data record for desert dust.