Chairs: Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Kerstin Schepanski, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany and James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
OSPA Liaisons: James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Potential Dust Emissions from Sources in the Southern Hemisphere.
Abinash Bhattachan, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Paolo D'Odorico, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Greg S Okin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Role of Meteorology and Surface Condition to Multi-Decadal Variations of Dust Emission in Sahara and Sahel
Dongchul Kim1, Mian Chin2, Thomas L Diehl3, Huisheng Bian4, Molly Elizabeth Brown2, Lorraine Ann Remer5 and William Ross Stockwell6, (1)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Howard University, Washington, DC, United States
Dust transport from glacierized rivers of southern Alaska to the Gulf of Alaska: Interannual variability in magnitude and sources
John Crusius, USGS at U Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrew W Schroth, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, Robert W Campbell, Prince William Sound Science Center, Cordova, AK, United States, Joeseph Resing, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Santiago Gasso, GESTAR/NASA, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Internal boundary layer devleopment over a salt pan: Measured and modelled dust emissions
James King1, Giles Wiggs2, Karsten Haustein2, Frank D Eckardt3, David S G Thomas2 and Richard Washington2, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
DO4Models: Testing the Performance of Current Dust Emission Schemes from a Box and Climate Model Perspective
Karsten Haustein1, Richard Washington1, James King2, Giles Wiggs1, David S G Thomas1 and Laurent Menut3, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Lab Meteorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau Cedex, France
Mineralogical, Chemical, and Optical Interrelationships of Airborne Mineral Dusts
Johann P Engelbrecht1, Hans Moosmuller1, Samuel L Pincock1, R.K.M. Jayanty2 and Gary Casuccio3, (1)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)RJ Lee Group, Inc, Monroeville, PA, United States
Observation of Individual Particle Morphology, Mineralogy in tandem with Columnar Spectral Aerosol Optics: A Summertime Study over North western India
Sumit Mishra1, Nabanita Saha1, Sukhvir Singh1, R Agnihotri1, C Sharma1, M. V. S. N. Prasad1, B. C. Arya1, T. Naaraayanan1, S. Gautam1, J. S. Rathore2, V. K. Soni3 and J. S. Tawale1, (1)National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, (2)Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur-342001, India, (3)India Meteorological Department, New Delhi-110003, India
Impact of Dust Events during 2003-2014 on the Ecological Changes in Bohai Sea (China)
Akshansha Chauhan1, Sheng Zheng2,3, Chunxiang Cao2 and Ramesh P Singh4, (1)Vidya College of Engineering, Meerut, India, (2)State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100101, China, (3)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China, (4)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
Electron Microanalysis of Aerosols Collected at Mauna Loa Observatory During an Asian Dust Storm Event
Joseph M. Conny1, Robert D Willis2, Diana Luz Ortiz-Montalvo1 and Aidan Colton3, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (2)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)NOAA Hilo, Hilo, HI, United States
Characterization of long-range transported Saharan dust by means of ground-based Raman and depolarization lidar measurements at Barbados
Silke Gross1, Volker Freudenthaler2, Andreas Schäfler1, Carlos Toledano3, Matthias Wiegner2, Bernadett Weinzierl1,2 and Gerhard Ehret1, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Meteorological Institute, München, Germany, (3)Universidad de Valladolid, Grupo de Optica Atmosferica, Valladolid, Spain