A43L:
Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding III

Session ID#: 1723

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Convener:  Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Kerstin Schepanski, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany and James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A43L-01
The southern Kalahari as a dust source: Results from the field (Invited) (4376)
Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nicholas Webb, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, United States, Abinash Bhattachan, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Kebonye Dintwe, Univ of California-Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
A43L-02
Dust emission thresholds from sodic playas with varying geochemistry and environmental conditions (13045)
Joanna M Nield1, Cheryl McKenna Neuman2 and Patrick OBrien2, (1)University of Southampton, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)Trent University, Geography, Peterborough, ON, Canada
A43L-03
Differences in Fine- Coarse Aerosol Ratios in Convective and Non-Convective Dust Events in a Desert City (8030)
Thomas E Gill, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences / Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States, Nancy I. Rivera Rivera, University of Texas at El Paso, Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States and David J. Novlan, NOAA- National Weather Service, Santa Teresa, NM, United States
A43L-04
Measurements of Saharan Dust from the Fennec Aircraft Campaign: Giant Particles, Optical Properties and Effects of Transport (Invited) (3404)
Claire L Ryder, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, Philip Rosenburg, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Harald Sodemann, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, Eleanor Highwood, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, James B McQuaid, University of Leeds, Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom, John H Marsham, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom and Richard Washington, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
A43L-05
Observation of Dust Aging Processes During Transport from Africa into the Caribbean – A Lagrangian Case Study (31248)
Bernadett Weinzierl1,2, Daniel N Sauer2, Adrian Walser2, Maximilian Dollner2, Oliver Reitebuch3, Silke Gross1, Fernando Chouza1, Albert Ansmann4, Carlos Toledano5, Volker Freudenthaler2, Konrad Kandler6, Andreas Schäfler1, Robert Baumann1, Ina Tegen4 and Bernd Heinold4, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Meteorological Institute, München, Germany, (3)DLR, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (5)Universidad de Valladolid, Grupo de Optica Atmosferica, Valladolid, Spain, (6)Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Darmstadt, Germany
A43L-06
Identifying African dust sources that contribute to the seasonal cycles of dust transport to the Caribbean Basin and South America. (23037)
Joseph M Prospero, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, Miami, United States, Paul A Ginoux, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jack Molinie, University of the French West Indies and Guiana, Fouillole, Finland
A41F-3111
CALIPSO Measurements of Saharan Dust Properties near Source and Transport Regions (2194)
Ali H Omar1, Zhaoyan Liu2, Jason Lucas Tackett3, Mark Vaughan4, Charles R Trepte2 and David M Winker2, (1)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States
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