A44B:
Interactions of Air Quality and Meteorology on Local to Synoptic Scales I


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Session ID#: 58400

Session Description:
Global change is driving chemistry, climate, and atmospheric composition to new regimes, threatening attainment of air quality standards globally. Poor air quality is often a result of local emissions and meteorology; however, the exact relationship is often difficult to discern due to nonlinearity and multicollinearity of individual meteorological variables, region-specific interactions resulting from irregular topography or chemical regime, and complex feedback processes. Accurate predictions of future air quality in the short and long-term require that these interactions be correctly described.

This session invites abstracts that present new knowledge of the relationship between meteorology and air pollution, including those using observations, regional and global models, or combination thereof to investigate past and future changes of single and multiday extremes, interannual variability, long-range transport, feedbacks associated with meteorology and air pollution, and how global climate change may influence air quality.

Primary Convener:  Daniel M Westervelt, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
Conveners:  Jordan Schnell, CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, United States and Eloise Ann Marais, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Lu Shen, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Chairs:  Eloise Ann Marais, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Jordan Schnell, CIRES/CU, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carlos Ordonez, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Cross-Listed:
  • GH - GeoHealth
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Uncertainty in integrated projections of climate change impacts on air quality, public health, and policy benefits (Invited) (458393)
Fernando Garcia Menendez, North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, James D. East, North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, United States, Rebecca Saari, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Erwan Monier, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Diagnosing changes in the frequency and duration of pollution and heat events in chemistry-climate model ensembles (Invited) (421196)
Arlene M Fiore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, George Milly, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Jordan Schnell, CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, United States
Modelling of the Seasonal Variability in Air Pollutants over Southern West Africa (386375)
Mathew J Evans, University of York, Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, York, YO10, United Kingdom, Eleanor Rose Morris, University of York, Department of Chemistry, York, YO10, United Kingdom and DACCIWA Science team
Contribution of Large Scale Atmospheric Patterns to Pollution with Particulate Matter in Morocco (380850)
Kenza Khomsi1, Houda Najmi2, Kamal Rachdi3 and Youness El Khoutayri3, (1)General Directorate of Meteorology, Air Quality, Casablanca, Morocco, (2)General Directorate of Meteorology, National Climate Center, Casablanca, Morocco, (3)Organization Not Listed, Casablanca, Morocco
Assessing ENSO-PM2.5 relationships over the United States: the importance of internal climate variability (453275)
Michael J Previdi, Columbia University, Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Arlene M Fiore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Application of NASA’s new global high-resolution air quality forecasts: Stratospheric intrusion-influenced ozone exceedance events in the USA (381374)
K. Emma Knowland, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, United States, Christoph Andrea Keller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, Lesley Ott, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bryan N Duncan, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Krzysztof Wargan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Assessment of the variability of the thermodynamic structure of the atmosphere and its influence on the levels of particulate matter PM2.5 in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia (454142)
Alejandra Isaza1, Carlos David Hoyos Ortiz2,3 and Laura Herrera1, (1)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, (2)Sistema de Alerta Temprana del Valle de Aburra (SIATA);Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente/Geoscience and Environment Department, Medellín, Colombia, (3)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente / Geoscience and Environment Department, Medellín, Colombia

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