A31D-0084
SEAC4RS Aerosol Radiative Effects and Heating Rates
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Sabrina Cochrane, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC, Boulder, CO, United States; Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract:
We will present (a) aerosol optical properties, (b) aerosol radiative forcing, (c) aerosol and gas absorption and heating rates, and (d) spectral surface albedo for cases from August 19th and 26th of the SEAC4RS mission. This analysis is based on irradiance data from the Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer (SSFR), spectral aerosol optical depth from the Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR), and extinction profiles from the DIAL/High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL). We derive spectrally resolved values of single scattering albedo, asymmetry parameter, and surface albedo from the data, and determine profiles of absorption and heating rate segregated by absorber (aerosol and gas).
