A44C:
Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding IV

Session ID#: 5375

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Kerstin Schepanski, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany and Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 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:  Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 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:

A44C-01
Toward a Greater Understanding of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Impacts of Mineral Dust Aerosol Through Fundamental Laboratory Studies (Invited) (5546)
Vicki H Grassian, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
A44C-02
Using Brittle Fragmentation Theory to represent Aerosol Mineral Composition (29872)
Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Columbia Univ c/o NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, Ron L Miller, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and Jan P Perlwitz, Columbia Univ c/o NASA/GISS, New York, United States
A44C-03
Global trends in mineral dust aerosol: determining causes and attributing uncertainty with the GEOS-Chem model (Invited) (5185)
David A Ridley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Colette L Heald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States and Joseph M Prospero, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, Miami, United States
A44C-04
Estimating the Sensitivity of Regional Dust Sources to Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Patterns (16395)
Alexis Hoffman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Chris E Forest, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
A44C-05
Dust in the Arctic during the Past Millennium from a Developing Array of Ice Cores: Linkages to Climate and Land Use (Invited) (6981)
Joseph R McConnell1, Monica M Arienzo2, Nathan Chellman1, Diedrich Fritzsche3, Karl J Kreutz4, Sepp Kipfstuhl5, Olivia Jayne Maselli6, Matt Nolan7, Daniel R Pasteris8, Michael Sigl9 and Jorgen Peder Steffensen10, (1)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Science, Reno, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany, (4)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (6)Desert Research Instititute, Reno, NV, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV, United States, (9)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (10)Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark
A44C-06
Dust emissions from eastern Australia during the mid to late Holocene record changing hydro-climatic conditions and landuse. (20919)
Samuel K Marx, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Hamish A McGowan, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and Balz Samuel Kamber, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
A44C-07
4He in Bahamas Carbonates: A Link between Dust Export and North African Mega-droughts over the Last Millennium (8080)
Atreyee Bhattacharya, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Adam C Maloof, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Earle R Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
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