A23N:
Lidar Investigations of Greenhouse Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds I

Submit an Abstract to this Session Please know the abstract submission deadline has passed. There are no exceptions to this deadline and no new abstracts can be submitted.
You can still search the program to see your colleague�s abstract submissions as well as the sessions submitted for the 2016 Fall Meeting. The final program will be released in early October.


Session ID#: 16277

Session Description:
To better predict future trends in climate change, there is a need to measure and understand the temporal and spatial variability of greenhouse gases, aerosols, and clouds on local, regional, and global scales. New laser remote sensing (lidar) techniques have been developed for ground-based, airborne, and space-based platforms for making measurements of greenhouse gases, including CO2, CH4, N2O, H2O and O3, and aerosol and cloud distributions and properties. We solicit papers on the development and demonstration of lidar techniques for making measurements of these key climate variables and their application in conducting climate-related investigations on local-to-global scales.  Papers are also solicited on modeling the performance and impact of future lidar systems for making measurements to improve our understanding of important climate variables.
Primary Convener:  Edward V Browell, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gerhard Ehret, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Chairs:  Edward V Browell, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Edward V Browell, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Space-based Lidar Measurements of Greenhouse Gases and Their Projected Impact on Quantification of Surface Sources and Sinks (Invited) (157546)
Stephan R Kawa, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David F Baker, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, Abhishek Chatterjee, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and NASA ASCENDS Ad Hoc Science Definition Team
Advances in Pulsed Lidar Measurements of CO2 Column Concentrations from Aircraft and for Space (124956)
James B. Abshire1, Anand K Ramanathan2, Graham R Allan3, William E Hasselbrack4, Haris Riris5, Kenji Numata5, Jianping Mao6 and Xiaoli Sun7, (1)NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (3)Hexagon US Federal, Lanham, MD, United States, (4)ATA Aerospace, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Active Remote Sensing of CO2 across Weather Systems in the Eastern United States: First Results from ACT-America (193388)
Edward V Browell1, Bing Lin2, Kenneth J Davis3, Michael D Obland2, Jeremy Todd Dobler4, Amin R Nehrir5, Susan A Kooi6, Tai-Fang Fan7, Joshua P DiGangi2, Yonghoon Choi8, Christopher O'Dell9, Emily Bell10, Sandip Pal11, Sha Feng12 and Thomas Lauvaux13, (1)STARSS III Affiliate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (4)Harris Space and Intelligence Systems, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (6)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (7)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (8)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (9)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (11)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (12)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (13)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
Simultaneous Measurements of CO2 Concentration and Temperature profiles using 1.6 μm DIAL in the Lower-Atmosphere (171080)
Yasukuni Shibata, Chikao Nagasawa and Makoto Abo, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emission Rates from strong Point Sources by Airborne IPDA-Lidar Measurements: Methodology and Experimental Results (156959)
Gerhard Ehret1, Axel Amediek2, Martin Wirth3, Andreas Fix4, Christoph Kiemle5 and Mathieu Quatrevalet4, (1)German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Atmospheric Methane measurements with a multiwavelength IPDA LIDAR (176272)
Haris Riris1, Kenji Numata1, Stewart Wu1, Brayler Gonzalez1, Jianping Mao2, Stephan R Kawa1 and Michael Rodriguez1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Identifying Methane Sources with an Airborne Pulsed IPDA Lidar System Operating near 1.65 µm (171703)
Ashwin Yerasi1, Jarett Bartholomew2, William Tandy Jr.1,2 and William J Emery1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp, Boulder, CO, United States

See more of: Atmospheric Sciences