A54B:
Advances in Remote Sensing of Fires, Aerosols, and Trace Gases for Air Quality Applications IV

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jun Wang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Edward J. Hyer, Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jun Wang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
Co-conveners:  Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian CFA, Cambridge, MA, United States and Edward J. Hyer, Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Advances in Studies of Air Quality and Health Informed with Satellite Remote Sensing
Randall Martin1, Aaron van Donkelaar1, Brian Boys1, Jeffrey Geddes1, Shailesh Kharol1, Colin J Lee1, Caroline R Nowlan2, Graydon Snider1, Crystal Weagle1 and Junwei Xu1, (1)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
4:15 PM
 
On the Specification of Smoke Injection Heights for Aerosol Forecasting
Arlindo da Silva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Caitlin Schaefer, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Cynthia A Randles, GESTAR/Morgan State University/NASA GSFC Code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States
4:30 PM
 
Global assessment of sub-pixel fire retrievals using MODIS 1 km data
Wilfrid Schroeder, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
4:45 PM
 
An algorithm for retrieving fine and coarse aerosol microphysical properties from AERONET-type photopolarimetric measurements
Xiaoguang Xu1, Jun Wang1, Jing Zeng1, Robert J D Spurr2, Xiong Liu3, Oleg Dubovik4, Zhengqiang Li5, Li Li5, Brent N Holben6 and Michael I Mishchenko7, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)Rt Solutions Inc, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Lille 1, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (5)Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
5:00 PM
 
A new paradigm for constraining PM2.5 speciation by combining multiangular and polarimetric remote sensing with chemical transport model information
Olga Kalashnikova1, Feng Xu2, Cui Ge3, Jun Wang3, Michael J Garay4 and David J Diner5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL/UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:15 PM
 
Assessment of the Sources of Black Carbon and Carbon Monoxide using OMI Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth, MOPITT Carbon Monoxide, and the adjoint of GEOS-Chem
Li Zhang1,2, Daven K Henze1, Georg A Grell2 and Gregory R Carmichael3, (1)Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
5:30 PM
 
Advances in the Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) and Application to the Remote Sensing of Fires and Trace Gases
Jonathan M Mihaly, William R Johnson, Glynn C Hulley, Simon J Hook and Bjorn T Eng, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:45 PM
 
An Examination of Extreme Fire Behavior and its Impact on Smoke Injection Altitude using Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data
David A Peterson1, Edward J. Hyer2, James R Campbell2, Michael D Fromm3, Johnathan W Hair4, Carolyn F Butler5 and Marta A Fenn5, (1)National Research Council, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
 
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