Naghmeh Dehkhoda

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Naghmeh Dehkhoda is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on the optical properties and climatic impacts of black carbon aerosols. Her primary contributions lie in developing and refining retrieval methodologies to isolate black carbon’s contribution to light absorption from ground-based remote sensing data. Using AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) observations, she has pioneered techniques that leverage depolarization ratio and single scattering albedo to quantify black carbon absorption aerosol optical depth (AAODBC). Her most cited work, “Long-Term Variation of Black Carbon Absorption Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET Data over East Asia” (2020, 11 citations), established a foundational dataset for one of the world’s most polluted regions. She subsequently expanded this approach globally in “Retrieval of Black Carbon Absorption Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET Observations over the World during 2000–2018” (2022, 9 citations), creating a two-decade record of BC absorption. Her most recent study (2023, 5 citations) validates these retrievals against MERRA-2 reanalysis data, demonstrating the robustness of her methodology. Dehkhoda’s work is critical for improving climate models and understanding aerosol-radiation interactions, providing essential observational constraints on black carbon’s warming effect.

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1. 1
   Long-Term Variation of Black Carbon Absorption Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET Data over East Asia

   11 citations · 2020
2. 2
   Retrieval of Black Carbon Absorption Aerosol Optical Depth from AERONET Observations over the World during 2000–2018

   9 citations · 2022
3. 3
   An AERONET-based methodology to retrieve black carbon light absorption and comparison with MERRA-2 data

   5 citations · 2023

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