A21I:
Advances in Remote Sensing of Fires, Aerosols, and Air Quality Trace Gases I


Session ID#: 10937

Session Description:
Remote sensing data are increasingly used in air quality analysis and prediction. This session solicits advanced remote sensing techniques and instrument concepts for enhancing the spatial and temporal characterization of fires, aerosols, and air quality related trace gases. We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to:

1) Hyperspectral remote sensing of fires, aerosols, and air quality trace gases;

2) Novel methods to retrieve vertically resolved aerosol properties and trace gases;

3) Retrieval and application of sub-pixel fire characterization;

4) Mitigation of cloud contamination in aerosol and trace gas retrievals at the pixel and sub-pixel level;

6) Correction of aerosols effects in trace gas retrievals, and vice versa;

7) Use of complementary information content on multiple species to improve single-species retrieval accuracy

Primary Convener:  Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jun Wang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, Edward J Hyer, US Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States and Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States
Chairs:  Xiong Liu1, Edward J Hyer2 and Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad1, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States(2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS: American Meteorological Society -
Index Terms:

0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

DSCOVR/EPIC Images and Science: A New Way to View the Entire Sunlit Earth From A Sun-Earth Lagrange-1 Orbit (Invited) (59799)
Jay R Herman1, Alexander Marshak2, Adam Szabo2 and DSCOVR Mission Science and Project Team, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Satellite Characterization of Fire Emissions of Aerosols and Gases Relevant to Air-Quality Modeling (Invited) (61414)
Charles M Ichoku1, Luke Ellison1, Yun Yue2 and Jun Wang2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
Observations of Pyrocumulus and Pyrocumulonimbus in Northern California (84561)
Neil Lareau, Craig B Clements and Chris Camacho, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
Active fire detection using Landsat 8 reflective bands (83021)
Sanath Sathyachandran Kumar and David P Roy, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements of Aerosol Distributions and Properties during the NASA DISCOVER-AQ Missions (Invited) (76189)
Richard Anthony Ferrare1, Chris A Hostetler1, Johnathan W Hair2, Amy Jo Scarino3, Sharon P Burton1, David B Harper1, Anthony L Cook1, Timothy Berkoff1, Raymond R Rogers1, Shane T Seaman2, Marta A Fenn4, Patricia Sawamura1, Marian Clayton5, Detlef Mueller6, Eduard Chemyakin3, Bruce E Anderson2, Andreas Joel Beyersdorf2, Luke D Ziemba2 and James H Crawford2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Coherent Applications, Inc. -Psionic, LLC, Hampton, United States, (5)RSES: Coherent Application, Inc. - Psionic, LLC, Hampton, United States, (6)University of Hertfordshire, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, Hatfield, AL10, United Kingdom
Polarimetric Remote Sensing in O2 A and B Bands: Sensitivity Study and Information Content Analysis for Vertical Profile of Aerosols (76123)
Jun Wang1, Shouguo Ding1 and Xiaoguang Xu2, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States
POMINO: An improved satellite NO2 product and impacts on emission inversio (Invited) (61701)
Jintai Lin, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China, Mengyao Liu, Peking University, Beijing, China, Jinyuan Xin, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, K. Folkert Boersma, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands, Robert J D Spurr, Rt Solutions Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States, Randall Martin, Dalhousie University, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, Canada and Qiang Zhang, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Global Ammonia Distributions and Recent Trends from AIRS 13-years Measurements (83481)
Juying X Warner, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Zigang Wei, IMSG, College Park, United States, Lawrence Larrabee Strow, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, John B Nowak, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Russell R Dickerson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States

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