Chairs: Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Ralph A Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 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
Evaluating MODIS Collection 6 Dark Target Over Water Aerosol Products for Multi-sensor Data Fusion
Yingxi Shi1, Jianglong Zhang2, Jeffrey S. Reid3, Edward J. Hyer4, Theodore M McHardy1 and Logan Lee1,2, (1)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)U of N Dakota-Atmos Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (3)Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States
The Uncertainty in Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieved by the MODIS Dark Target Algorithm
Falguni Patadia, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Shana Mattoo, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Large differences in aerosol optical properties over the north-west Atlantic Ocean during the TCAP field campaign
Duli Chand1, Larry K Berg1, Jennifer M Comstock1, Jerome D Fast1, Connor Joseph Flynn1, John Hubbe1, Evgueni Kassianov1, Fan Mei1, Mikhail Pekour1, Beat Schmid1, Arthur J Sedlacek III2, Jason M Tomlinson1, John E Shilling1, Jacqueline Mary Wilson1, Alla Zelenyuk1 and Carl M Berkowitz1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY, United States
Global aerosol typing from a combination of A-Train satellite observations in clear-sky and above clouds
Meloe S Kacenelenbogen1, Philip B Russell2, Mark Vaughan3, Jens Redemann4, Yohei Shinozuka1, John M Livingston5 and Qin Zhang1, (1)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (2)NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)SRI International Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Changes in atmospheric aerosol loading from space-based measurements and model simulations for the decade 2001-2010
Jongmin Yoon1, Andrea Pozzer1, Dong Yeong Chang1, John Philip Burrows2 and Johannes Lelieveld3,4, (1)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3)Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, (4)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
An Examination of Satellite Aerosol Product Assimilation in an Aerosol Transport Model Using Ensemble Versus Variational Methods
Juli I Rubin1, Jeffrey S. Reid2, Jim A. Hansen2, Jeffrey L Anderson3, James R Campbell2, Nancy Collins3, Timothy J Hoar3 and Jianglong Zhang4, (1)NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)U of N Dakota-Atmos Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Direct Aerosol Radiative Forcing from Combined A-Train Observations – Preliminary Comparisons with AeroCom Models and Pathways to Observationally Based All-sky Estimates
John M Livingston1, Jens Redemann2, Yohei Shinozuka3, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen3, Philip B Russell2, Samuel E LeBlanc4, Mark Vaughan5, Richard Anthony Ferrare5, Chris A Hostetler5, Raymond R Rogers5, Sharon P Burton5, Omar Torres6, Lorraine Ann Remer7, Philip Stier8 and Nick Schutgens8, (1)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)BAERI/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, ORAU, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Quantifying the climatological cloud-free shortwave direct radiative forcing of mineral dust aerosol over the Red Sea
Georgiy L Stenchikov1, Helen E Brindley2, Sergey Osipov1, Richard J Bantges2, Alexander Smirnov3 and P. Jish Prakash1, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)SPAT Physics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, (3)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
Investigating the Impact of Optically-thin Cirrus Cloud Contamination on Estimates of Direct Aerosol Radiative Forcing Using Collocated MODIS and CALIOP Observations
Min M Oo, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Robert Holz, UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, Jeffrey S. Reid, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States and James R Campbell, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States
Analysis of the Interaction and Transport of Aerosols with Cloud or Fog during Dragon Campaigns from Aeronet and Satellite Remote Sensing
Thomas F Eck1, Brent N Holben1, Jeffrey S. Reid2, Joel Schafer1, David Matthew Giles1, Jhoon Kim3, Young J Kim4, Itaru Sano5, Peng Lynch2, Kenneth E Pickering1, James H Crawford6, Alexander Sinyuk1, Alexander Smirnov1 and Nathan Trevino7, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, (4)GIST Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea, (5)Kinki University, Osaka, Japan, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, Fresno, CA, United States