A24B:
Assessing Aerosol Vertical Distribution Impacts on Air Quality and Radiative Forcing: Insight from In Situ Measurements, Remote Sensing, and Modeling I

Session ID#: 2038

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Andreas Joel Beyersdorf1, Luke D Ziemba1, Arlindo da SIlva2 and Richard Anthony Ferrare3, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  Andreas Joel Beyersdorf, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
Co-conveners:  Arlindo da SIlva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Richard Anthony Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Luke D Ziemba, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andreas Joel Beyersdorf, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Relating Aerosol Profile and Column Measurements to Surface Concentrations: What Have We Learned from Discover-AQ? (Invited) (5226)
Raymond M Hoff, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
The Impact of Caliop Aerosol Profiling: How Z Influences the X, Y Satellite Perspective (Invited) (10692)
James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, Ricardo Alfaro-Contreras, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Virginie Buchard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, Travis D Toth, Univ of ND--Atmospheric Scies, Grand Forks, United States, Mark Vaughan, NASA, Hampton, VA, United States and Jianglong Zhang, U of N Dakota-Atmos Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Global Representation of Aerosol Vertical Structure and PM2.5 Concentrations from Satellite (Invited) (3291)
Aaron van Donkelaar1, Randall Martin2 and Brian Boys2, (1)Dalhousie University, Dept Physics & Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada
Relating Aerosol Mass and Optical Depth in the Summertime Continental Boundary Layer (Invited) (3379)
Charles A Brock1, Nick Wagner2, Ann Middlebrook1, Alexis R Attwood3, Rebecca A Washenfelder4, Steven S Brown5, Allison C McComiskey6, Timothy Dean Gordon7, Andre Welti8, Annmarie G. Carlton9 and Daniel M Murphy10, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Denver, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (7)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (9)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (10)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, United States
Vertical profiles of cloud condensation nuclei, aerosol hygroscopicity, water uptake, and scattering across the United States (30431)
Jack J Lin1, Aikaterini Bougiatioti2, Athanasios Nenes3, Bruce E Anderson4, Andreas Joel Beyersdorf4, Charles A Brock5, Timothy Dean Gordon6, Daniel Lack7, Daniel C. Law8, Jin Liao6, Ann Middlebrook9, Mathews Richardson10, Kenneth Lee Thornhill II4, Edward Winstead11, Nicholas L Wagner8, Andre Welti12 and Luke D Ziemba4, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Marousi Athens, Greece, (3)Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (5)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (10)NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (11)Analytical Mechanics Associates, Hampton, United States, (12)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL)-2 Observations of Aerosol Variability and Mixing during Boundary Layer Evolution in Houston (4221)
Sharon P Burton1, Amy Jo Scarino2, Raymond R Rogers1, Chris A Hostetler1, Richard Anthony Ferrare1, Patricia Sawamura1,3, Timothy Berkoff1, David B Harper2, Anthony L Cook1 and Sebastian Milinski4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES), Los Angeles, United States
Airborne Measurements of Scattering and Absorption Coefficients in the Planetary Boundary Layer above the Po Valley, Italy, during the PEGASOS Campaigns (21655)
Bernadette Rosati1, Ernest Weingartner2, Martin Gysel3, Ralf Tillmann4, Thomas F Mentel5, Stefano Decesari6, Angela Marinoni7, Gian Paolo Gobbi8, Federico Fierli9, Francesco Cairo10, Silvia Bucci8, Marco Zanatta11,12, Johannes Größ13 and Urs Baltensperger12, (1)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland, (2)Institute for Aerosol and Sensor Technology, University of Applied Science, Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland, (3)Paul Scherrer Institute, PSI Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Villigen, Switzerland, (4)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Climate and Energy Systems, Troposphere (ICE-3), Jülich, Germany, (5)Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (6)National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy, (7)CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy, (8)National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Rome, Italy, (9)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (10)Institute of Atmospheric Science and Climate, ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy, (11)Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, (12)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland, (13)Department of Physics, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Radiative Impacts of Elevated Aerosol Layers from Different Origins (26584)
Daniel N Sauer1,2, Bernadett Weinzierl1,3, Josef Gasteiger1 and Katharina Heimerl3, (1)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Meteorological Institute, München, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany