A52F
Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3012 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Chun Zhao, PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Martina Klose, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Joanna M Nield, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Hongbin Yu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Chairs:  Chun Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Hongbin Yu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Hongbin Yu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
10:20
The Impact of African Dust on PM10 Air Quality in the Caribbean Basin (Invited) (70730)
Joseph M Prospero, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
10:35
Impact of Asia Dust Aerosols on Regional Environment and Climate (Invited) (60178)
Jianping Huang, Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
10:50
Positive dust and low cloud feedbacks help to generate tropical north atlantic Multidecadal variability (65292)
Tianle Yuan1, Lazaros Oreopoulos1, Mark D Zelinka2, Hongbin Yu3, Joel R Norris4, Mian Chin1, Steven E Platnick1 and Kerry Meyer5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:05
An Observationally-Constrained Global Dust AOD Suggests a Systematic Underestimation of Dust in Model (63915)
David A Ridley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Colette L Heald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Chun Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
11:20
The global atmospheric loading of dust aerosols (67385)
Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, David A Ridley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Karsten Haustein, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Ron L Miller, NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States and Chun Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
11:35
Reduce the uncertainty in dust aerosol IN effect on cloud top temperature (77058)
Rui Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
11:50
Sensitivity of dust emissions to aerosol feedback and the impact of dust loading on climate forcing with varied resolutions using FIM-Chem (84253)
Li Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Daven K Henze, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Georg A Grell, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States and Stuart A McKeen, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
12:05
Nearly a Decade of CALIPSO Observations of Asian and Saharan Dust Properties near Source and Transport Regions (82592)
Ali H Omar1, Jason Lucas Tackett2, Zhaoyan Liu1, Mark A. Vaughan3, Charles R Trepte1, David M Winker1 and Hongbin Yu4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
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