A13Q:
Sources of Planetary Boundary Layer and Lower Free Troposphere Ozone and Variability: From Urban to Remote Regions of the United States III

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Gary A Morris, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Mike Newchurch, Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Conveners:  Mae Sexauer Gustin, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Co-conveners:  Daniel A Jaffe, University of Washington Bothell Campus, Bothell, WA, United States, Gary A Morris, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, United States; St. Edward's University, School of Natural Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and Mike Newchurch, Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gary A Morris, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
An Overview of Ozone and Precursor Temporal and Spatial Variability in DISCOVER-AQ Study Regions
Kenneth E Pickering1, Melanie B Follette-Cook2, Christopher Loughner3, Clare Flynn4, James H Crawford5, Richard D Clark6, Alan Fried7, Jay R Herman8, Scott J Janz9, Lok N Lamsal10, Morgan L Silverman11, Deborah Claire Stein Zweers10, James Szykman12 and Andrew John Weinheimer13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Maryland JCET, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (11)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (12)US EPA, ORD, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
1:55 PM
 
The Essential Role of Tethered Balloons in Characterizing Boundary Layer Structure and Evolution during Discover-AQ
Richard D Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States
2:10 PM
 
Ozone Transport and Mixing Processes in the Boundary Layer Observed with Lidar during Discover-AQ
Christoph J Senff1, Andrew O'Neil Langford2, Raul J Alvarez II2, Aditya Choukulkar1, Alan Brewer2, Ann M Weickmann1, Guillaume Kirgis1, Scott Sandberg2, Michael Hardesty1, Ruben Delgado3, Russell Long4 and Steven S Brown2, (1)CIRES/NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, BALTIMORE, MD, United States, (4)US EPA, RTP, NC, United States
2:25 PM
 
The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ozone in the Houston Metropolitan Area during DISCOVER-AQ and its' Relation to Meteorological Conditions
Barry L Lefer1, James H Flynn III2, Laura Judd1, Xinrong Ren3, Mark Joseph Estes4 and Robert J Griffin5, (1)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NOAA Science Center, College Park, MD, United States, (4)TX Comm Environmental Quality, Austin, TX, United States, (5)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
2:40 PM
 
The role of bay breezes and regional transport on a high surface ozone episode during the Houston, Texas DISCOVER-AQ field campaign
Christopher Loughner1, Melanie B Follette-Cook2, Kenneth E Pickering2 and Mark Joseph Estes3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)TX Comm Environmental Quality, Austin, TX, United States
2:55 PM
 
The vertical distribution of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere as measured during DISCOVER-AQ
Armin Wisthaler1,2, Markus Müller3, Tomas Mikoviny1, Philipp Eichler3 and James H Crawford4, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Chemistry, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, (3)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
3:10 PM
 
The influence of local circulations on vertical profiles of NO2 and O3 at semi-rural sites during DISCOVER-AQ campaigns in California, Texas, and Colorado
Deborah Claire Stein Zweers1, Kenneth E Pickering2, Richard D Clark3, Andrew John Weinheimer4, Clare Flynn5, Gina Mazzuca5 and Elena Spinei1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
3:25 PM
 
Using aircraft and satellite observations to improve regulatory air quality models
Timothy P Canty1, Timothy Vinciguerra1, Daniel C Anderson1, Samantha F Carpenter1, Daniel L Goldberg1, Linda Hembeck1, Lynn Montgomery1, Xiong Liu2, Ross J Salawitch1 and Russell R Dickerson1, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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