C13A:
Dust, Black Carbon, and Other Aerosols in the Cryosphere I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Mark Flanner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, John F Burkhart, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Mark Flanner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
20th Century Black Carbon and Dust Deposition on South Cascade Glacier, Washington Reconstructed from the South Cascade Ice Core
Dan Pittenger and Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States
 
Annual Patterns and Sources of Light-Absorbing Aerosols over Central Greenland
Jason Hu1, Michael Howard Bergin1, Jack E Dibb2, Patrick J Sheridan3 and John A Ogren4, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
SAGE 2014: Spatial and Seasonal Variability in the Accumulation of Black Carbon and Soluble Ions in the Snow Pack in Northwest Greenland.
Jack E Dibb1, Chris Polashenski2,3, Zoe Courville4, Michael C. Stewart1, Lauren Farnsworth5 and Carolyn Stwertka3, (1)Earth Systems Research Center, EOS/UNH, Durham, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK, United States, (3)Thayer School of Engineering,Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)USACE-CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)Dept. Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Changes in Snow Albedo Resulting from Snow Darkening Caused by Black Carbon
Jessica Engels1,2, Silvia Kloster1 and Quentin Bourgeois3,4, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg, Germany, (3)Center for Climate Systems Modeling, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Institute of Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Atmospheric Black Carbon Concentrations in the Finnish Arctic over Five Decades: Comparisons between measurements and model
Liaquat Husain1, Vincent A Dutkiewicz1, Anthony Dejulio1,2, James Laing3, Philip K Hopke4, Ragnhild Skeie5, Yrjo Viisanen6 and Jussi Paatero6, (1)Atmospheric Sciences Research Center,, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, United States, (2)Department of Environmental Health sciences, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, United States, (3)Clarkson University, Center for Air Resouces Engineering and Science, Potsdam, NY, United States, (4)Clarkson Univ, Potsdam, NY, United States, (5)Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (6)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
 
The Properties of Black Carbon and Mineral Dust Deposition in Snow and Ice Cores and Their Source Attributions over Northern China
Xin Wang1, Jianping Huang1, Qiang Fu2, Wei Pu1 and Xueying Zhang1, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (2)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Bimodal Albedo Distributions in the Ablation Zone of the Southwestern Greenland Ice Sheet
Samiah Moustafa1, Asa K Rennermalm2, Laurence C Smith3, Mark A Miller2, John Mioduszewski1 and Lora Koenig4, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
A 2800-year Siberian ice core record of vanillic acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid
Mackenzie M Grieman1, Eric S Saltzman1, Joseph R McConnell2, Diedrich Fritzsche3 and Thomas Opel3, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany
 
Observations of atmospheric and snowpack chemistry in the summer on the Juneau Icefield
Jennifer Berry1, Chelsea R Thompson2 and Kerri Pratt1, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Radiative Forcing Effects Due to Black Carbon and Dust in the Atmosphere and Snow in the Western United States
Yuhao Mao1,2, Qinbin Li1,3, Kuo-Nan Liou1,3, Hong Liao2, Yu Gu1,3, Cenlin He1,3 and Li Zhang4, (1)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Contributions of Fossil Fuel Combustion to Winter-time Arctic Aerosols
Tate Edward Barrett1, Sascha Usenko1,2, Eleanor Robinson1 and Rebecca J Sheesley1,2, (1)Baylor University, Institute of Ecological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, Waco, TX, United States, (2)Baylor University, Environmental Science, Waco, TX, United States
 
Evolution of Black Carbon Optical Properties during Atmospheric Aging: Comparison Between Theoretical Calculations and Laboratory Experiments
Cenlin He1,2, Kuo-Nan Liou1,2, Yoshihide Takano1,2, Qinbin Li1,2, Ping Yang3 and Renyi Zhang3, (1)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Spatially and Temporally Refined Sources of Black Carbon Aerosols in the Arctic in spring
Ling Qi1, Qinbin Li2, Yuhao Mao3, Yang Chen4, James Tremper Randerson4, Qiaoqiao Wang5 and Wei Min Hao6, (1)Univ of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Fire Sciences Laboratory, U.S. Forest Service, Missoula, MT, United States
 
Parameterizations for Narrowband and Broadband Albedo of Pure Snow, and Snow Containing Mineral Dust and Black Carbon
Cheng Dang, Richard Brandt and Stephen G Warren, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Simulating black carbon and dust in snow and their climatic impact over Eurasia
Zhiyuan Hu1,2, Chun Zhao2, Jianping Huang1, Yun Qian2, L. Ruby Leung2, Maoyi Huang2, Jiming Jin3 and Mark Flanner4, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (2)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Aromatic acids from biomass burning in the WAIS Divide ice core
Eric S Saltzman1, Mackenzie M Grieman1, Joe McConnell2 and Jihong Cole-Dai3, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)South Dakota State Univ, Brookings, SD, United States
 
Physical and Chemical Properties of Seasonal Snow and the Impacts on Albedo in New Hampshire, USA
Alden Claire Adolph1, Mary R Albert1, Jacqueline Amante2 and Jack E Dibb2, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Ice core sulfur and methanesulfonic acid (MSA) records from southern Greenland document North American and European air pollution and suggest a decline in regional biogenic sulfur emissions.
Daniel R Pasteris1, Joseph R McConnell1, John F Burkhart2,3 and Eric S Saltzman4, (1)Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Univ California, Atwater, CA, United States, (3)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Assessing mining impacts from dust and black carbon on Arctic snow in Svalbard, Norway
Alia Lauren Khan1, Heidi M Dierssen2, Joshua Peter Schwarz3, Yan Ding4, Rudolf Jaffe4, Thomas H Painter5, Diane M McKnight6 and Mark H Hermanson7, (1)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (3)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Florida International University, Environmental Chemistry, Miami, FL, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University Centre in Svalbard, Arctic Technology, Longyearbyen, Norway
 
Concentration and isotope ratio of sulfur species in snow along the route to Dome Fuji, Antarctica
Motohiro Hirabayashi and Hideaki Motoyama, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
 
Online Aerosol Size and Composition Measurements in Coastal Antarctica
Peter F DeCarlo1, Michael Giordano1, Lars Kalnajs2, Anita Johnson1, Sean M Davis3, Terry Deshler4 and Darin W Toohey5, (1)Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Spatial variability of light-absorbing impurities in the seasonal snowpack of the Nordic Arctic
Jonas Svensson1,2, David Brus1, Tomi Raatikainen1, Kimmo Neitola1, Eija Asmi1, Atte Korhola2 and Heikki Lihavainen1, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
 
A Method to Retrieve the Complex Refractive Index and Single Scattering Optical Properties of Dust Deposited in Mountain Snow Cover
McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Greg S Okin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
The distribution of PM2.5 in the Arctic and the impacts of deposited Black Carbon on snow albedo
Negin Sobhani1, Sarika Kulkarni1,2 and Gregory R Carmichael3, (1)University of Iowa--CGRER, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)California Air Resource Board, Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Snow Impurities on Central Asian Glaciers: Mineral Dust, Organic & Elemental Carbon
Julia Schmale1, Shichang Kang2, Richard Peltier3, Michael Sprenger4, Junming Guo2,5, Yang Li2,5 and Qianggong Zhang2,5, (1)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (2)State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China, (3)University of Massachusetts, Environmental Health Sciences, Amherst, United States, (4)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, IAC, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China
 
The impact of Saharan dust events on long-term glacier mass balance in the Alps
Andreas Bauder1, Jeannette Gabbi1, Matthias Huss1 and Margit Schwikowski2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland
 
The Snow Darkening Effect and the Simulation of Extremes over Eurasia
Teppei J Yasunari1,2, William K-M Lau2, Kyu-Myong Kim2 and Randal D Koster2, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Color of Greenland: Tracing the Dark Ice Exposed at the Ice Sheet Margin
Sarah E Starke, Robin E Bell, Kirsty J Tinto, Indrani Das and Gisela Winckler, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Investigating the Effect of Soot Emissions on Precipitation over Western CONUS Using WRF-Chem
Hsien-Liang Rose Tseng1, Kuo-Nan Liou1,2, Yu Gu1,2, Longtao Wu2,3 and Robert G Fovell1, (1)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Lab-MLS, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Charred Forests Increase Snow Albedo Decay: Watershed-Scale Implications of the Postfire Snow Albedo Effect
Kelly E Gleason and Anne Walden Nolin, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
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