A22D:
Long-Range Transport of Dust and Pollution in the Past, Present, and Future II


Session ID#: 10932

Session Description:
With the changing land-use, land-cover and climate, dust storms have become more frequent. Dusts are produced from the desert regions of the world and are transported to long distances, affecting human health, transport industry (aviation), oceanic/terrestrial nutrient supplies, atmospheric and cloud properties. The track of dust storms can change quickly depending upon prevailing atmospheric and meteorological conditions. Thus, emission mechanisms of dust and their intercontinental transport have drawn large interests equally amongst the experimentalist and modelers. An early warning system of present day dust transport and transformation, and future climate feedback will help us alleviate large-scale damages and improve the utilization for biological productivity. 

We invite contributions related to dusts and their local, regional and global impacts on human  health, monsoons, clouds, hydrological cycle, ocean color/biology, atmospheric radiation, snow and glaciers.

Primary Convener:  Prabir Kumar Patra, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Conveners:  Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States, Hesham Mohamed El-Askary, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States and Gisela Winckler, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
Chairs:  Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States, Prabir Kumar Patra, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Hesham Mohamed El-Askary, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prabir Kumar Patra, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling and Remote Sensing for a Dust/Health Early Warning System (72544)
William A Sprigg, University of Arizona, Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Tropospheric Volcanism and Air-Traffic (72072)
Christos S Zerefos1,2, John N Kapsomenakis1,2, Vassilis Amiridis3, Stavros Solomos4, Kostas Eleftheratos5, Evangelos Gerasopoulos2,6, Christos Repapis7, Henk Eskes8, Antje Inness9, Emilio Cuevas10 and Pascal Hedelt11, (1)Rsrch Cnter Atmos Phy & Clim, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, (2)Navarino Environmental Observatory, Messinia, Greece, (3)National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS, Athens, Greece, (4)National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Athens, Greece, (5)Laboratory of Climatology and Atmospheric Environment, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (6)National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, Athens, Greece, (7)Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences, Athens, Greece, (8)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (9)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (10)Izana Atmospheric Research Center, AEMET, Tenerife, Spain, (11)Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Weßling, Germany
Development of a Forecasting and Data Assimilation System for Asian Dust in the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) (Invited) (58420)
Keiya Yumimoto1, Taichu Y Tanaka2, Akinori Ogi2, Tsuyoshi Thomas Sekiyama1, Takashi Maki1, Hiroshi Murakami3,4, Maki Kikuchi4 and Takashi M Nagao4, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2) Earth Observation Research Center, Tukuba, Japan, (4)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan
Dependence of simulations of long range transport on meteorology, model and dust size (58599)
Natalie M Mahowald1, Samuel Albani2, Molly Smith2, Remi Losno3, Beatrice Marticorena3, David A Ridley4, Colette L Heald4 and Zihan Qu5, (1)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)University Denis Diderot Paris VII, Paris Cedex 13, France, (4)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)IPGP, Paris, France
CALIPSO observations of changes in dust properties during transatlantic transport (58613)
Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Weidong Yang, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tamas Varnai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, MD, United States and Alexander B Kostinski, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
Global dust sources detection using MODIS Deep Blue Collection 6 aerosol products (80419)
Paul A Ginoux, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States
Atmospheric Processing of Iron-Containing Mineral Dust Aerosol: A Major Source of Bioavailable Iron to Ocean Life (67728)
Gayan Randika Sampath Rubasinghege and Omar A Hurub, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Chemistry, Socorro, NM, United States

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