A23M:
Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models II

Session ID#: 5291

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Mian Chin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stefan Kinne, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Atmosphere, Hamburg, Germany
Primary Convener:  Mian Chin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Michael Schulz, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, Stefan A Kinne, MPI Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Steven John Ghan, Battelle Northwest, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Steven John Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AeroCOM Biomass Burning Emissions Experiment-Overview (Invited) (3687)
Mariya M Petrenko1,2, Mian Chin1, Ralph A Kahn3 and Maria Val Martin4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Sheffield, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation; School of Biosciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Relative Contributions of Regional and Sector Emissions to the Radiative Forcing of Aerosol-Radiation and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Based on the AeroCOM Phase III/HTAP2 Experiment (15443)
Toshihiko Takemura, Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan and Mian Chin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Evaluating AEROCOM Models with Remote Sensing Datasets (21695)
Nick Schutgens1, Edward Gryspeerdt2, Natalie Weigum1, Andreas Veira3, Daniel Partridge1 and Philip Stier4, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (4)University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Toward a Better Characterization of Aerosols, Clouds, and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Climate Modeling through Increasing Horizontal Resolution (Invited) (3508)
Po-Lun Ma1, Philip J Rasch2, Minghuai Wang2, Hailong Wang1, Steven John Ghan2, Xiaohong Liu3, Richard C Easter2, William I Gustafson Jr2, Simone Tilmes4 and Hsi-Yen Ma5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Diversity of Aerosol Simulations in the NASA GEOS-5 Model: Impacts of Spatial Resolution, Meteorology, and Model Physics (3029)
Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Cynthia Randles, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, United States, Arlindo da SIlva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Andrea Molod, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Diversity of Aerosol Optical Thickness in analysis and forecasting modes of the models from the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction Multi-Model Ensemble (ICAP-MME) (16721)
Peng Xian, Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States and the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP) team
Application of Spectral Decomposition Techniques in the Assessment and Intercomparison of Models and Observations (23909)
Barbara E Carlson, Jing Li and Andrew A Lacis, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
Trends in Aerosol Emissions over Europe and Global Aerosol Forcing (10093)
Johannes Quaas1, Ribu Cherian2, Joanna Kajewska-Szkudlarek2, Marc Salzmann2 and Martin Wild3, (1)University Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland