Aircraft measurements to characterize polluted winter boundary layers: Overview of twin otter flights during the Utah Winter Fine Particulate Matter Study

Steven S Brown1, Munkhbayar Baasandorj2, Alessandro Franchin3, Ann Middlebrook4, Lexie Goldberger5, Joel A Thornton6, William P Dube7, Erin E. McDuffie8, Caroline Womack9, Dorothy L Fibiger10, Alexander Moravek11, Jennifer G Murphy12, Jason C Clark13 and Robert Mitchell13, (1)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Science, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (6)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (7)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (10)Brown University, Chemistry, Providence, RI, United States, (11)University of Toronto, Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada, (12)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (13)NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, Tampa, FL, United States