AeroCom INSITU Project: Comparison of Aerosol Optical Properties from In-situ Surface Measurements and Model Simulations
Lauren Schmeisser1,2, Elisabeth Andrews2,3, Michael Schulz4, Markus Fiebig5, Kai Zhang6, Cynthia Randles7, Gunnar Myhre8, Mian Chin9, Philip Stier10, Toshihiko Takemura11, Maarten C Krol12, Huisheng Bian13, Ragnhild B Skeie8, Arlindo da SIlva9, Harri Kokkola14, Anton Laakso15, Steven John Ghan6 and Richard C Easter16, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Climate and Air Pollution Section, Oslo, Norway, (5)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (7)Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (11)Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, (12)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, (15)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (16)Battelle PNNL, Richland, United States
