A41F:
Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding II Posters

Session ID#: 5377

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chair:  Kerstin Schepanski, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
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:

 
Modeling and Satellite Observation of Dust Emission and Transport over the Taklimakan Desert (16483)
Jing Su, Chenpeng Xu and Jianping Huang, LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
 
Monitoring Airborne Dust from Source to Sink Using the e-Deep Blue Aerosol Products from VIIRS, MODIS, and Seawifs (8000)
Nicholas Carletta1,2, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu3, Corey Bettenhausen1,2, Andrew M Sayer3,4 and Jaehwa Lee3,5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Columbia, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States
 
Identification of Dust and Ice Cloud Formation from A-Train Datasets (26803)
Daniel S Russell1,2 and Kuo-Nan Liou1,2, (1)Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Comparison of Dust and Smoke over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean from MODIS and CALIOP Remote Sensing Observations (29649)
Yan Zhang1,2, Hongbin Yu2,3, Mian Chin2, Luke Ellison3 and Maksym Petrenko2, (1)GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Structure and Optical Properties of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Dusty Hot Deserts (20250)
Bushra Chalermthai1,2, Mohamed Al Marzooqi1,3, Ghouse Basha1,2, Taha Ouarda1,2, Peter Armstrong4,5 and Annalisa Molini6,7, (1)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, iWATER, Institute Centre for Water Advanced Technology & Environmental Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (2)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (3)Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company, Procurement & Contracts Directorate, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (4)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, iENERGY, Institute Center for Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (5)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (6)Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (7)Masdar Institute, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
 
The Aerosol Coarse Mode Initiative (29205)
William P Arnott1, Narayan Adhikari1, Dambar Air1, Evgueni Kassianov2 and Jim Barnard1,2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
The Size Distribution of Desert Dust and Its Impact on the Earth System (Invited) (3199)
Natalie M Mahowald1, Samuel Albani2, Jasper F Kok3, Sebastian Engelstaedter4, Rachel Scanza2, Daniel S Ward2 and Mark Flanner5, (1)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
 
African Dust Fertilizing the Amazon Rainforest: An Assessment with Seven-year Record of CALIOP Measurements (16626)
Hongbin Yu1,2, Mian Chin2, Tianle Yuan3, Huisheng Bian4, Joseph M Prospero5, Ali H Omar6, Lorraine A Remer7, David M Winker8, Yuekui Yang9, Yan Zhang2,10 and Zhibo Zhang11, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, Miami, United States, (6)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences, Baltimore, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (9)NASA, Greenbelt, United States, (10)GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States
 
Aerosol Phosphorus Composition: New Insights from Synchrotron X-ray Spectroscopy (18122)
Amelia Longo1, Ellery D Ingall2, Julia M Diaz3, Michelle M Oakes4, Laura King1, Athanasios Nenes5, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos6, Kaliopi Violaki6, Anna Avila7, Claudia R Benitez-Nelson8, Jay A. Brandes9, Ian McNulty10 and David Vine10, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States, (3)Woods Hole Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (5)Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, (6)University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, (7)Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Spain, (8)Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, (9)Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA, United States, (10)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
 
How will dust variability change the effect of dust as ice nuclei? (13390)
Yuxing Yun, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Paul A Ginoux, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Chemical Evolution of Mineral Dust and Its Impact on Radiative Forcing in East Asia during 2006-2010 (29742)
Joshua S Fu, University of Tennessee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Knoxville, United States, Xinyi Dong, Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China and Kan Huang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
 
Impact of Dust Aerosols on the Sahel Climate: A GCM Investigation of Aerosol-Radiation-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions (19041)
Yu Gu, UCLA, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Kuo-Nan Liou, University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mian Chin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Amplification of the ENSO Effects on Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall by Absorbing Aerosols (19231)
Maeng-Ki Kim1, William K-M Lau2, Kim Kyu-Myong2, Jeong Sang3, Yeon-Hee Kim4 and Woo-Seop Lee5, (1)Kongju National University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Kongju National University, Atmospheric Science, Gongju, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea, (5)APCC, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
An Improved Parameterization of Dust Dry Deposition Velocity for Climate Models (18287)
Marcelo Chamecki, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Livia Souza Freire, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
 
Analyzing the Effects of Dust on Atmospheric Composition over Northwestern China in Spring 2008 Using WRF-Chem (19789)
Jing Wang1, Dale J Allen2, Kenneth E Pickering3 and Zhanqing Li1,4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
 
Performance evaluation of CESM in simulating the dust cycle (17163)
Sagar Prasad Parajuli, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Gary Kocurek, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States and David M Lawrence, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
 
Evaluation of a physically-based dust emission scheme in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) (19035)
Jasper F Kok1, Samuel Albani2, Natalie M Mahowald3 and Daniel S Ward2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Semi-direct dynamical and radiative effect of North African dust transport on lower tropospheric clouds over the subtropical North Atlantic in CESM 1.0 (27549)
Michael J Deflorio1, Steven John Ghan2, Balwinder Singh2, Arthur J Miller3, Daniel R Cayan4, Lynn M Russell4 and Richard C J Somerville5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
The Spring 2014 Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System "Dust Offensive" (13942)
Eric Hunt1, Rebecca Adams-Selin2, Jacquelyn Sartan3, Glenn Creighton4, Evan Kuchera3, James Keane4 and Sandra Jones5, (1)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Janus Research Group, Lexington, United States, (3)557 Weather Wing Offutt AFB, 16 Weather Squadron, Offutt AFB, NE, United States, (4)Air Force Weather Agency Offutt AFB, Offutt AFB, NE, United States, (5)US Army Cold Regions, Hanover, NH, United States
 
An analysis of aeolian dust in climate models (22428)
Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Local Sources for the "Megadust" Events at the WAIS Divide Ice Core (18722)
Alejandra Borunda1, Gisela Winckler2, Steven L Goldstein3, Michael R Kaplan3, Joseph R McConnell4 and Nelia W Dunbar5, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Science, Reno, United States, (5)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States