A54B:
Advances in Remote Sensing of Fires, Aerosols, and Trace Gases for Air Quality Applications IV

Session ID#: 5288

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3010 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jun Wang, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States and Edward J Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, United States
Primary Convener:  Jun Wang, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States
Co-conveners:  Xiong Liu, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States and Edward J Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Virtual Option?: Yes
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Advances in Studies of Air Quality and Health Informed with Satellite Remote Sensing (Invited) (5408)
Randall Martin1, Aaron van Donkelaar2, Brian Boys1, Jeffrey Geddes3, Shailesh Kharol3, Colin J Lee3, Caroline R Nowlan4, Graydon Snider3, Crystal Lynn May Weagle5 and Junwei Xu3, (1)Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)Dalhousie University, Dept Physics & Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (4)Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, (5)Washington University in St Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States
On the Specification of Smoke Injection Heights for Aerosol Forecasting (6911)
Arlindo da SIlva, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Caitlin Schaefer, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Cynthia Randles, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, United States
Global assessment of sub-pixel fire retrievals using MODIS 1 km data (Invited) (5187)
Wilfrid Schroeder, NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States and Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
An algorithm for retrieving fine and coarse aerosol microphysical properties from AERONET-type photopolarimetric measurements (12675)
Xiaoguang Xu1, Jun Wang2, Jing Zeng2, Robert J D Spurr3, Xiong Liu4, Oleg Dubovik5, Zhengqiang Li6, Li Li7, Brent Holben8 and Michael I Mishchenko9, (1)University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States, (2)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (3)Rt Solutions Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (5)University of Lille, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (6)Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (7)Ocean University of China,Qingdao,China, Qingdao, China, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
A new paradigm for constraining PM2.5 speciation by combining multiangular and polarimetric remote sensing with chemical transport model information (28620)
Olga V Kalashnikova1, Feng Xu2, Cui Ge3, Jun Wang3, Michael J Garay4 and David J Diner4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Assessment of the Sources of Black Carbon and Carbon Monoxide using OMI Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth, MOPITT Carbon Monoxide, and the adjoint of GEOS-Chem (31004)
Li Zhang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States; ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Daven K Henze, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States, Georg A Grell, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Gregory R Carmichael, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States
An OSSE to Quantify the Impact of S5 Spaceborne Carbon Monoxide Total Column Measurements on Air Pollution Analysis and Forecast over Europe (27759)
Rachid Abida1, Jean-Luc Attié1, Laaziz El Amraoui1, Philippe Ricaud1, Henk Eskes2, Jukka Kujanpää3 and Arjo Segers4, (1)Météo-France, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (2)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (4)Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
An Examination of Extreme Fire Behavior and its Impact on Smoke Injection Altitude using Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data (14210)
David A Peterson, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Edward J Hyer, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Johnathan W Hair, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Carolyn F Butler, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States and Marta A Fenn, Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, United States