A41G:
Mineral Dust Effects on Weather and Climate Posters
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Session ID#: 23978
Session Description:
How and to what extent mineral dust aerosols can affect regional weather systems, global circulation patterns, and climate variability remains an open question. Answering the above question requires comprehensive understanding of the direct, indirect and semi-direct radiative effects of dust in order to accurately model the energy budget of the atmosphere and surface. The dust-induced changes to the energy budget are manifest in cloud processes and the thermal structure of the atmosphere, and consequently the circulation. The dust-modified circulation, in turn, alters the dust transport by the mean and eddy portions of the flow. Examples of dust-modified circulations include, but are not limited to, the African easterly jet–African easterly wave system, the African monsoon, tropical cyclones, mesoscale convective complexes and springtime cyclones over Southern Europe, Mongolia and China.
Primary Convener: Terrence R Nathan, University of California Davis, Atmospheric Sciience Program, Davis, CA, United States
Convener: Shu-Hua Chen, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Chairs: Terrence R Nathan, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Dustin Grogan, University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environemental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison: Terrence R Nathan, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Xiaoning Xie, IEE Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China
Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour, Bernhard Vogel and Heike Vogel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dr. Wenzhao Li1, Hesham Mohamed El-Askary2,3, K.P ManiKandan4, Mohamed Qurban5, Michael J Garay6 and Olga V. Kalashnikova6, (1)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (3)Alexandria University, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria, Egypt, (4)King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Applied Reserach Center for Environmental and Marine Studies, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (5)King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Geosciences Department, the college of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Peter Richard Colarco1, Adriana Rocha Lima1,2, Anton Darmenov3 and Christine Bloecker4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Emily Bercos-Hickey, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Terrence R Nathan, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Shu-Hua Chen, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Christopher Edward Phillips, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, Udaysankar Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Peng Xian, Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States
Terrence R Nathan, University of California Davis, Atmospheric Sciience Program, Davis, CA, United States and Dustin Grogan, University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environemental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
Disha Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and Ron L Miller, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
Klaus Klingmueller, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, Johannes Lelieveld, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; The Cyprus Institute, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center, Nicosia, Cyprus, Vlassis Karydis, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Jülich, Germany and Georgiy L Stenchikov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Ayse Gokcen Isik, Hacettepe University, Environmental Engineering, Ankara, Turkey; Turkish State Meteorological Service, Ankara, Turkey
Dustin Grogan, University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environemental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States and Chris D Thorncroft, University at Albany, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
