A41F:
Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding II Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kerstin Schepanski, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
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:  Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Modeling and Satellite Observation of Dust Emission and Transport over the Taklimakan Desert
Jing Su, Chengpeng Xu and Jianping Huang, LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
 
Monitoring Airborne Dust from Source to Sink Using the e-Deep Blue Aerosol Products from VIIRS, MODIS, and Seawifs
Nicholas Carletta1,2, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu2, Corey Bettenhausen1,2, Andrew M Sayer2,3 and Jaehwa Lee2,4, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Identification of Dust and Ice Cloud Formation from A-Train Datasets
Daniel S Russell1,2 and Kuo-Nan Liou1,2, (1)Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Comparison of Dust and Smoke over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean from MODIS and CALIOP Remote Sensing Observations
Yan Zhang1,2, Hongbin Yu1,3, Mian Chin1, Luke Ellison1 and Maksym Petrenko1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
CALIPSO Measurements of Saharan Dust Properties near Source and Transport Regions
Ali H Omar1, Zhaoyan Liu2, Jason Lucas Tackett3, Mark Vaughan4, Charles R Trepte2 and David M Winker2, (1)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Effect of mineral dust on ocean color retrievals from space: A radiative transfer simulation study
Ziauddin Ahmad1,2 and Bryan A Franz2, (1)JHT, Inc., Orlando, FL, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Structure and Optical Properties of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Dusty Hot Deserts
Bushra Chalermthai1,2, Mohamed Al Marzooqi2,3, Ghouse Basha1,2, Taha Ouarda1,2, Peter Armstrong4,5 and Annalisa Molini1,2, (1)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (2)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, iWATER, Institute Centre for Water Advanced Technology & Environmental Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (3)Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company, Procurement & Contracts Directorate, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (4)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, iENERGY, Institute Center for Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (5)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
 
The Aerosol Coarse Mode Initiative
William P Arnott1, Narayan Adhikari1, Dambar Air1, Evgueni Kassianov2 and Jim Barnard1,2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
The Size Distribution of Desert Dust and Its Impact on the Earth System
Natalie M Mahowald1, Samuel Albani2, Jasper F Kok3, Sebastian Engelstaedter4, Rachel Scanza2, Daniel S Ward2 and Mark Flanner5, (1)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
African Dust Fertilizing the Amazon Rainforest: An Assessment with Seven-year Record of CALIOP Measurements
Hongbin Yu1,2, Mian Chin2, Tianle Yuan3, Huisheng Bian4, Joseph M Prospero5, Ali H Omar6, Lorraine Ann Remer7, David M Winker8, Yuekui Yang9, Yan Zhang2,10 and Zhibo Zhang11, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (6)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (9)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
The Effects of Particle Size, Relative Humidity, and Sulfur Dioxide on Iron Solubility in Atmospheric Particulate Matter
Benton T Cartledge1, Aurelie Marcotte2, Ariel D Anbar3, Pierre Herckes2 and Brian J Majestic1, (1)University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Aerosol Phosphorus Composition: New Insights from Synchrotron X-ray Spectroscopy
Amelia Longo1, Ellery D Ingall1, Julia M Diaz2, Michelle M Oakes3, Laura King1, Athanasios Nenes1, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos4, Kaliopi Violaki4, Anna Avila5, Claudia R Benitez-Nelson6, Jay A. Brandes7, Ian McNulty8 and David Vine8, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (4)University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, (5)Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (6)Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, (7)Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA, United States, (8)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
 
How will dust variability change the effect of dust as ice nuclei?
Yuxing Yun, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Paul A Ginoux, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States and Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Chemical Evolution of Mineral Dust and Its Impact on Radiative Forcing in East Asia during 2006-2010
Joshua S Fu, Xinyi DONG and Kan Huang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
Impact of Dust Aerosols on the Sahel Climate: A GCM Investigation of Aerosol-Radiation-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions
Yu Gu1, Kuo-Nan Liou1, Yongkang Xue2, Jonathan H. Jiang3, Hui Su3 and Mian Chin4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
On the cause of the correlation between West African dust outbreaks and Sahelian rainfall
Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Cyrille Flamant, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
Amplification of the ENSO Effects on Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall by Absorbing Aerosols
Maeng-Ki Kim1, William K-M Lau2, Kyu-Myong Kim2, Jeong Sang1, Yeon-Hee Kim3 and Woo-Seop Lee4, (1)Kongju National University, Gongju, South Korea, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)POSTEC, Pohang, South Korea, (4)APCC, Busan, South Korea
 
An Improved Parameterization of Dust Dry Deposition Velocity for Climate Models
Marcelo Chamecki and Livia Souza Freire, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
 
Analyzing the Effects of Dust on Atmospheric Composition over Northwestern China in Spring 2008 Using WRF-Chem
Jing Wang1, Dale J Allen1, Kenneth E Pickering2 and Zhanqing Li1,3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Performance evaluation of CESM in simulating the dust cycle
Sagar Prasad Parajuli1, Zong-Liang Yang2, Gary Kocurek2 and David M Lawrence3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Evaluation of a physically-based dust emission scheme in the Community Earth System Model (CESM)
Jasper F Kok1, Samuel Albani2, Natalie M Mahowald3 and Daniel S Ward2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Semi-direct dynamical and radiative effect of North African dust transport on lower tropospheric clouds over the subtropical North Atlantic in CESM 1.0
Michael J Deflorio1, Steven John Ghan2, Balwinder Singh2, Arthur J Miller3, Daniel R Cayan3, Lynn M Russell3 and Richard C J Somerville1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Soil Characterization Using CCSEM Analysis
Robert Rogers, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States and Andrew Hunt, University of Texas, Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
 
The Spring 2014 Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System "Dust Offensive"
Eric D Hunt1, Rebecca Adams-Selin1, Jacquelyn Sartan2, Glenn Creighton2, Evan Kuchera2, James Keane2 and Sandra Jones3, (1)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)Air Force Weather Agency Offutt AFB, Offutt AFB, NE, United States, (3)US Army Cold Regions, Hanover, NH, United States
 
An analysis of aeolian dust in climate models
Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Local Sources for the "Megadust" Events at the WAIS Divide Ice Core
Alejandra Borunda, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Gisela Winckler, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Steven L Goldstein, Columbia University, Sparkill, NY, United States, Michael R Kaplan, Lamont-DohertyEarthObservatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Joseph R McConnell, Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV, United States and Nelia W Dunbar, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States
 
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