A51J:
Air Pollution in Urban Airsheds During Winter I
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Session ID#: 30868
Session Description:
Severe urban air pollution during the winter season is a well-known phenomenon and significant public health issue. So called wintertime “killer smog” events in the U.S. and Great Britain in the 1940’s and 1950’s brought particular public attention to air quality as a public health issue. Episodic winter pollution haze events continue to occur despite decades of investment in emissions controls. Such events are found globally, in the U.S., Europe, China and beyond, and they generate high levels of public interest and concern, including demands for local action. The scientific understanding required to implement effective mitigation strategies remains challenging due to the complex and often non-linear interplay between cold weather meteorology, emissions, atmospheric chemical mechanisms and aerosol thermodynamics. This session invites submissions from recent field, laboratory and modeling studies relevant to the current state of the science in winter air pollution.
Primary Convener: Steven S Brown, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Munkhbayar Baasandorj, Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality, Salt Lake City, UT, United States; University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Science, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Keding Lu, Peking University, State Key Joint Laboratory or Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Beijing, China and Alastair C Lewis, Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Chairs: Keding Lu, Peking University, State Key Joint Laboratory or Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Beijing, China and Tao Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, China
OSPA Liaison: Steven S Brown, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Shaojie Song1, Meng Gao1, Yele Sun2, Mei Li3, Shuxiao Wang4, Yuxuan Wang5, Weiqi Xu6, Lei Zhu1, William Munger7 and Michael B McElroy1, (1)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Beijing, China, (3)Jinan University, Institute of Atmospheric Environment Safety and Pollution Control, Guangzhou, China, (4)Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, School of Environment, Beijing, China, (5)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (6)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Beijing, China, (7)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Dominik van Pinxteren, Kanneh Wadinga Fomba, Falk Mothes, Gerald Spindler and Hartmut Herrmann, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD), Leipzig, Germany
Viral Shah1, Lyatt Jaegle2, Jason Clay Schroder3, Pedro Campuzano-Jost4, Jose L Jimenez5, Hongyu Guo6, Amy Sullivan7, Rodney J Weber8, Jaime Ross Green9, Marc Fiddler10, Solomon Bililign11, Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker12, Ben H. Lee13 and Joel A Thornton2, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (2)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (5)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (8)Georgia Inst Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States, (9)North Carolina A & T State University, Applied Science and Technology, Greensboro, United States, (10)North Carolina A&T State University, Department of Chemistry, Greensboro, United States, (11)North Carolina A&T State University, Physics, Applied Sciences and Technology, Greensboro, United States, (12)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland, (13)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States
Alessandro Franchin, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Ann Middlebrook, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Munkhbayar Baasandorj, University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Science, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Steven S Brown, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, Dorothy L Fibiger, Brown University, Chemistry, Providence, RI, United States, Lexie Goldberger, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, Erin E. McDuffie, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Alexander Moravek, University of Toronto, Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada, Jennifer G Murphy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Joel A Thornton, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States and Caroline Womack, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
