A23O:
Characterizing Global Aerosol Through Multi-sensor and Model Synergy III

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Ralph A Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ralph A Kahn, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
A Multi-Parameter Aerosol Classification Method and its Application to Retrievals from Spaceborne Polarimetry
Philip B Russell1, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen2, John M Livingston1, Otto P Hasekamp3, Sharon P Burton4, Gregory L Schuster4, Matthew S Johnson5, Kirk D Knobelspiesse5, Jens Redemann5, S Ramachandran6 and Brent N Holben7, (1)NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)BAERI, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
1:55 PM
 
Aerus-GEO: An Advanced Initiative for Tracking Operationally Aerosol Events over Any Surface Targets Based on Satellite MSG/Seviri Observations
Dominique Carrer1, Jean-Louis Roujean1, Xavier Ceamanos1 and Bruno Six2, (1)CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (2)ICARE, Data and Services Center, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
2:10 PM
 
Uncertainties in recent volcanic aerosol optical depths and implications for global climate change
David A Ridley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Susan Solomon, MIT/EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States
2:25 PM
 
The Global Aerosol Synthesis and Science Project (GASSP): Using a Comprehensive Synthesis of Aerosol Observations and Statistical Modelling to Constrain Model Uncertainty
Carly Reddington1, Lindsay Lee2, Ken S Carslaw1, Dantong Liu3, James D Allan3, Hugh Coe4, Kirsty Pringle1, Philip Stier5, Daniel Partridge5 and Nick Schutgens5, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (3)University of Manchester, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom, (4)University of Manchester, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2:40 PM
 
Real-time aerosol data assimilation experiments during the 2014 FRAPPE/DISCOVER-AQ field mission
R. Bradley Pierce, NOAA/NESDIS, Center for Satellite Application and Research, Madison, WI, United States
2:55 PM
 
Comparison of data fusion techniques using observations, chemical transport models, and satellite retrievals for air pollution exposure estimates in health studies
Heather Holmes1, Howard H. Chang2, James A. Mulholland3 and Armistead Russell3, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
3:10 PM
 
Use of Observation-Based Aerosol Fields for Detailed Cloud-Scale Modeling Studies
Ann M Fridlind1, Andrew Mark Vogelmann2, Andrew S Ackerman1 and Satoshi Endo3, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
3:25 PM
 
Changing Aerosol Properties with Distance to Cloud; Is It an Artifact or Reality?
Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tamas Varnai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, MD, United States, Weidong Yang, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Columbia, MD, United States and Guoyong Wen, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
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