A13Q:
Sources of Planetary Boundary Layer and Lower Free Troposphere Ozone and Variability: From Urban to Remote Regions of the United States III

Session ID#: 2276

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Gary A Morris, NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States; NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Mike Newchurch, Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
Primary Convener:  Mae Sexauer Gustin, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States
Co-conveners:  Dan A Jaffe, University of Washington Bothell Campus, School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Department of Physical Sciences, Bothell, United States, Gary A Morris, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States; NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Mike Newchurch, Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Gary A Morris, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States; NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

An Overview of Ozone and Precursor Temporal and Spatial Variability in DISCOVER-AQ Study Regions (Invited) (4954)
Kenneth E Pickering, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Melanie B Follette-Cook, Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States, Christopher Loughner, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Clare Marie Flynn, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, James H Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Richard D Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, Alan Fried, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Jay R Herman, University of Maryland JCET, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Scott J Janz, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Lok N Lamsal, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States, Morgan L Silverman, RSES, Hampton, United States, Deborah C Stein, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, James Szykman, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States and Andrew John Weinheimer, NCAR, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States
The Essential Role of Tethered Balloons in Characterizing Boundary Layer Structure and Evolution during Discover-AQ (8932)
Richard D Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States
Ozone Transport and Mixing Processes in the Boundary Layer Observed with Lidar during Discover-AQ (Invited) (5642)
Christoph J Senff1, Andrew O'Neil Langford2, Raul J Alvarez II II2, Aditya Choukulkar3, Alan Brewer2, Ann M Weickmann3, Guillaume Kirgis4, Scott Sandberg5, Michael Hardesty3, Ruben Delgado6, Russell Long7 and Steven S Brown8, (1)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CIRES/NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (8)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ozone in the Houston Metropolitan Area during DISCOVER-AQ and its' Relation to Meteorological Conditions (Invited) (5644)
Barry L Lefer1, James H Flynn III2, Laura Judd1, Xinrong Ren3, Mark Joseph Estes4 and Robert J Griffin5, (1)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (3)NOAA, Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (4)St. Edward's University, Department of Mathematics, Austin, TX, United States, (5)Rice University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
The role of bay breezes and regional transport on a high surface ozone episode during the Houston, Texas DISCOVER-AQ field campaign (29589)
Christopher Loughner, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Melanie B Follette-Cook, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Kenneth E Pickering, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mark Joseph Estes, St. Edward's University, Department of Mathematics, Austin, TX, United States
The vertical distribution of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere as measured during DISCOVER-AQ (20436)
Armin Wisthaler1,2, Markus Müller3, Tomas Mikoviny1, Philipp Eichler4 and James H Crawford5, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Chemistry, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, (3)University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, (4)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
The influence of local circulations on vertical profiles of NO2 and O3 at semi-rural sites during DISCOVER-AQ campaigns in California, Texas, and Colorado (28998)
Deborah C Stein1, Kenneth E Pickering2, Richard D Clark3, Andrew John Weinheimer4, Clare Marie Flynn5, Gina Mazzuca5 and Elena Spinei Lind6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, (4)NCAR, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, United States
Using aircraft and satellite observations to improve regulatory air quality models (18487)
Timothy P Canty1, Timothy Vinciguerra2, Daniel C Anderson2, Samantha F Carpenter2, Daniel L Goldberg3, Linda Hembeck2, Lynn Nicole Montgomery2, Xiong Liu4, Ross J Salawitch5 and Russell R Dickerson2, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD, United States