Retrievals of fine mode light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols from POLDER/PARASOL observations over East and South Asia

A new aerosol component approach that infers aerosol species fractions from satellite observations was developed and incorporated by Li et al. (2019) into Generalized Retrieval of Aerosol and Surface Properties (GRASP) algorithm. In the current work we employ this aerosol component approach for derivation and analysis of temporal and spatial characteristics of black and brown carbon (BC and BrC) concentrations in East and South Asia using...