A new framework for evaluating dust emission model development using dichotomous satellite observations of dust emission

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dc.creatorHennen, Mark
dc.creatorChappell, Adrian
dc.creatorWebb, Nicholas P.
dc.creatorSchepanski, Kerstin
dc.creatorBaddock, Matthew C.
dc.creatorEckardt, Frank D.
dc.creatorKandakji, Tarek
dc.creatorLee, Jeffrey A. (TTU)
dc.creatorNobakht, Mohamad
dc.creatorvon Holdt, Johanna
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T15:38:54Z
dc.date.available2024-03-14T15:38:54Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description© 2023 The Authors cc-by
dc.description.abstractDust models are essential for understanding the impact of mineral dust on Earth's systems, human health, and global economies, but dust emission modelling has large uncertainties. Satellite observations of dust emission point sources (DPS) provide a valuable dichotomous inventory of regional dust emissions. We develop a framework for evaluating dust emission model performance using existing DPS data before routine calibration of dust models. To illustrate this framework's utility and arising insights, we evaluated the albedo-based dust emission model (AEM) with its areal (MODIS 500 m) estimates of soil surface wind friction velocity (us∗) and common, poorly constrained grain-scale entrainment threshold (u∗ts) adjusted by a function of soil moisture (H). The AEM simulations are reduced to its frequency of occurrence, P(us∗>u∗tsH). The spatio-temporal variability in observed dust emission frequency is described by the collation of nine existing DPS datasets. Observed dust emission occurs rarely, even in North Africa and the Middle East, where DPS frequency averages 1.8 %, (~7 days y−1), indicating extreme, large wind speed events. The AEM coincided with observed dust emission ~71.4 %, but simulated dust emission ~27.4 % when no dust emission was observed, while dust emission occurrence was over-estimated by up to 2 orders of magnitude. For estimates to match observations, results showed that grain-scale u∗ts needed restricted sediment supply and compatibility with areal us∗. Failure to predict dust emission during observed events, was due to us∗ being too small because reanalysis winds (ERA5-Land) were averaged across 11 km pixels, and inconsistent with us∗ across 0.5 km pixels representing local maxima. Assumed infinite sediment supply caused the AEM to simulate dust emission whenever P(us∗>u∗tsH), producing false positives when wind speeds were large. The dust emission model scales of existing parameterisations need harmonising and a new parameterisation for u∗ts is required to restrict sediment supply over space and time.
dc.identifier.citationHennen, M., Chappell, A., Webb, N.P., Schepanski, K., Baddock, M.C., Eckardt, F.D., Kandakji, T., Lee, J.A., Nobakht, M., & von, Holdt, J.. 2024. A new framework for evaluating dust emission model development using dichotomous satellite observations of dust emission. Science of the Total Environment, 912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169237
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169237
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/97720
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleA new framework for evaluating dust emission model development using dichotomous satellite observations of dust emission
dc.typeArticle

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