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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-2340</article-id>
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<article-title>Constraining the Vertical Profiles of Aerosol Component and Heating Rate over East Asia through Assimilating CALIOP observations</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cheng</surname>
<given-names>Yueming</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dai</surname>
<given-names>Tie</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4177-1536</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Goto</surname>
<given-names>Daisuke</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2975-3738</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yumimoto</surname>
<given-names>Keiya</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3465-0613</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nishizawa</surname>
<given-names>Tomoaki</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kudo</surname>
<given-names>Rei</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhao</surname>
<given-names>Min</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Higurashi</surname>
<given-names>Akiko</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jin</surname>
<given-names>Yoshitaka</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shimizu</surname>
<given-names>Atsushi</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7306-7412</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Peng</surname>
<given-names>Haoran</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shi</surname>
<given-names>Guangyu</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nakajima</surname>
<given-names>Teruyuki</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Laboratory of Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Beijing, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Earth System Numerical Modeling and Application, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese  Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>02</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>35</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Yueming Cheng et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<abstract>
<p>The vertical distribution of distinct aerosol components fundamentally governs atmospheric shortwave heating rates and radiative effects. However, traditional data assimilation (DA) methods typically rely on total aerosol optical thickness (AOT) or extinction, which fails to constrain the specific aerosol composition and often leads to the misallocation of aerosol between scattering and absorbing species. To address this limitation, we develop a component-resolved four-dimensional local ensemble transform Kalman filter (4D-LETKF) system with spatial and observational constraints within the WRF-Chem model. This novel system assimilates CALIOP-MODIS synergistic retrievals of species-specific extinction profiles (dust, sea salt, black carbon, and water-soluble aerosols) to explicitly optimize the three-dimensional distributions of individual components over East Asia. Results demonstrate that this DA system successfully reconstructs the complex vertical layering of multi-component aerosols. Notably, it effectively corrects severe underestimations of elevated black carbon (BC) plumes, capturing persistent free-tropospheric BC layers over South Asia that traditional models typically miss. Independent validations against ground-based AERONET and AD-Net lidar observations confirm significant improvements not only in total AOT and extinction but also in the single scattering albedo (SSA). By independently adjusting the mass of scattering and absorbing species, the system corrects local biases in aerosol optical properties. Consequently, the optimized component-specific profiles profoundly affect the atmospheric shortwave radiative heating. The elevated BC plumes induces a pronounced mid-tropospheric warming accompanied by a reduction in lower-tropospheric heating due to the attenuation of downward solar radiation. This study highlights the importance of component-specific vertical constraints for accurately assessing aerosol-induced atmospheric heating and its vertical structure.</p>
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<funding-source>National Key Research and Development Program of China</funding-source>
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<funding-source>Chinese Academy of Sciences</funding-source>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
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<funding-source>Chinese Academy of Sciences</funding-source>
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