Chairs: Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Conveners: Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, 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 Liaisons: James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
1:40 PM
The southern Kalahari as a dust source: Results from the field
Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nicholas Webb, NMSU, Brisbane, Ascot, QLD, Australia, Abinash Bhattachan, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Kebonye Dintwe, Univ of California-Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Paolo D'Odorico, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
2:15 PM
Differences in Fine- Coarse Aerosol Ratios in Convective and Non-Convective Dust Events in a Desert City
Thomas E Gill, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences / Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States, Nancy I. Rivera Rivera, University of Texas at El Paso, Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States and David J. Novlan, NOAA- National Weather Service, Santa Teresa, NM, United States
2:30 PM
Measurements of Saharan Dust from the Fennec Aircraft Campaign: Giant Particles, Optical Properties and Effects of Transport
Claire L Ryder1, Phil Rosenberg2, Harald Sodemann3, Eleanor Highwood4, James B McQuaid2, John H Marsham5 and Richard Washington6, (1)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, (4)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (5)University of Leeds, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2:50 PM
Observation of Dust Aging Processes During Transport from Africa into the Caribbean – A Lagrangian Case Study
Bernadett Weinzierl1,2, Daniel N Sauer2, Adrian Walser2, Maximilian Dollner2, Oliver Reitebuch1, Silke Gross1, Fernando Chouza1, Albert Ansmann3, Carlos Toledano4, Volker Freudenthaler2, Konrad Kandler5, Andreas Schäfler1, Robert Baumann1, Ina Tegen3 and Bernd Heinold3, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Meteorological Institute, München, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (4)Universidad de Valladolid, Grupo de Optica Atmosferica, Valladolid, Spain, (5)Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Darmstadt, Germany
