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2. Author Correction: Increased aerosols can reverse Twomey effect in water clouds through radiative pathway
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Khatri, Pradeep, Hayasaka, Tadahiro, Holben, Brent N., Singh, Ramesh P., Letu, Husi, and Tripathi, Sachchida N.
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- 2023
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3. Characteristics of Transboundary Haze and General Aerosol Over Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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San, Lim Hwee, Holben, Brent N., Makama, Ezekiel Kaura, Zahari, Mohamad Farid Izzat Bin, Vadrevu, Krishna Prasad, editor, Ohara, Toshimasa, editor, and Justice, Chris, editor
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- 2023
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4. Long-term observation of columnar aerosol optical properties over the remote South China Sea
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Pani, Shantanu Kumar, Huang, Hsiang-Yu, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, Holben, Brent N., and Lin, Neng-Huei
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- 2023
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5. The extreme forest fires in California/Oregon in 2020: Aerosol optical and physical properties and comparisons of aged versus fresh smoke
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Eck, Thomas F., Holben, Brent N., Reid, Jeffrey S., Sinyuk, Alexander, Giles, David M., Arola, Antti, Slutsker, Ilya, Schafer, Joel S., Sorokin, Mikhail G., Smirnov, Alexander, LaRosa, Anthony D., Kraft, Jason, Reid, Elizabeth A., O'Neill, Norman T., Welton, E.J., and Menendez, Arsenio R.
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- 2023
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6. Long-term variation of aerosol optical properties associated with aerosol types over East Asia using AERONET and satellite (VIIRS, OMI) data (2012–2019)
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Eom, Sujin, Kim, Jhoon, Lee, Seoyoung, Holben, Brent N., Eck, Thomas F., Park, Sung-Bin, and Park, Sang Seo
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- 2022
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7. Aerosols optical and radiative properties in Indonesia based on AERONET version 3
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Kusumaningtyas, Sheila Dewi Ayu, Tonokura, Kenichi, Aldrian, Edvin, Giles, David M., Holben, Brent N., Gunawan, Dodo, Lestari, Puji, and Iriana, Windy
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- 2022
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8. Increased aerosols can reverse Twomey effect in water clouds through radiative pathway
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Khatri, Pradeep, Hayasaka, Tadahiro, Holben, Brent N., Singh, Ramesh P., Letu, Husi, and Tripathi, Sachchida N.
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- 2022
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9. Investigation of the relationship between the fine mode fraction and Ångström exponent: Cases in Korea
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Koo, Ja-Ho, Lee, Juhee, Kim, Jhoon, Eck, Thomas F., Giles, David M., Holben, Brent N., Park, Sang Seo, Choi, Myungje, Kim, Najin, Yoon, Jongmin, and Lee, Yun Gon
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- 2021
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10. Aerosol meteorology of Maritime Continent for the 2012 7SEAS southwest monsoon intensive study - Part 2: Philippine receptor observations of fine-scale aerosol behavior
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Reid, Jeffrey S, Lagrosas, Nofel D, Jonsson, Haflidi H, Reid, Elizabeth A, Atwood, Samuel A, Boyd, Thomas J, Ghate, Virendra P, Xian, Peng, Posselt, Derek J, Simpas, James B, Uy, Sherdon N, Zaiger, Kimo, Blake, Donald R, Bucholtz, Anthony, Campbell, James R, Chew, Boon Ning, Cliff, Steven S, Holben, Brent N, Holz, Robert E, Hyer, Edward J, Kreidenweis, Sonia M, Kuciauskas, Arunas P, Lolli, Simone, Oo, Min, Perry, Kevin D, Salinas, Santo V, Sessions, Walter R, Smirnov, Alexander, Walker, Annette L, Wang, Qing, Yu, Liya, Zhang, Jianglong, and Zhao, Yongjing
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences ,Atmospheric Sciences ,Astronomical and Space Sciences - Abstract
Abstract. The largest 7 Southeast Asian Studies (7SEAS) operations period within the Maritime Continent (MC) occurred in the August–September 2012 biomass burning season. Data included were observations aboard the M/Y Vasco, dispatched to the Palawan Archipelago and Sulu Sea of the Philippines for September 2012. At these locations, the Vasco observed MC smoke and pollution entering the southwest monsoon (SWM) monsoonal trough. Here we describe the research cruise findings and the finer-scale aerosol meteorology of this convectively active region. This 2012 cruise complemented a 2-week cruise in 2011 and was generally consistent with previous findings in terms of how smoke emission and transport related to monsoonal flows, tropical cyclones (TC), and the covariance between smoke transport events and the atmosphere's thermodynamic structure. Biomass burning plumes were usually mixed with significant amounts of anthropogenic pollution. Also key to aerosol behavior were squall lines and cold pools propagating across the South China Sea (SCS) and scavenging aerosol particles in their path. However, the 2012 cruise showed much higher modulation in aerosol frequency than its 2011 counterpart. Whereas in 2011 large synoptic-scale aerosol events transported high concentrations of smoke into the Philippines over days, in 2012 measured aerosol events exhibited a much shorter-term variation, sometimes only 3–12 h. Strong monsoonal flow reversals were also experienced in 2012. Nucleation events in cleaner and polluted conditions, as well as in urban plumes, were observed. Perhaps most interestingly, several cases of squall lines preceding major aerosol events were observed, as opposed to 2011 observations where these lines largely scavenged aerosol particles from the marine boundary layer. Combined, these observations indicate pockets of high and low particle counts that are not uncommon in the region. These perturbations are difficult to observe by satellite and very difficult to model. Indeed, the Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) simulations captured longer period aerosol events quite well but largely failed to capture the timing of high-frequency phenomena. Ultimately, the research findings of these cruises demonstrate the real world challenges of satellite-based missions, significant aerosol life cycle questions such as those the future Aerosol/Clouds/Ecosystems (ACE) will investigate, and the importance of small-scale phenomena such as sea breezes, squall lines, and nucleation events embedded within SWM patterns in dominating aerosol life cycle and potential relationships to clouds.
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- 2016
11. An inter-comparison exercise of Sentinel-2 radiometric validations assessed by independent expert groups
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Lamquin, Nicolas, Woolliams, Emma, Bruniquel, Véronique, Gascon, Ferran, Gorroño, Javier, Govaerts, Yves, Leroy, Vincent, Lonjou, Vincent, Alhammoud, Bahjat, Barsi, Julia A., Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey S., McCorkel, Joel, Helder, Dennis, Lafrance, Bruno, Clerc, Sebastien, and Holben, Brent N.
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- 2019
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12. SeaPRISM observations in the western basin of Lake Erie in the summer of 2016
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Moore, Timothy S., Feng, Hui, Ruberg, Steven A., Beadle, Kyle, Constant, Stephen A., Miller, Russell, Muzzi, Ronald W., Johengen, Thomas H., DiGiacomo, Paul M., Lance, Veronica P., Holben, Brent N., and Wang, Menghua
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- 2019
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13. Analysis of long-range transboundary transport (LRTT) effect on Korean aerosol pollution during the KORUS-AQ campaign
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Lee, Seoyoung, Kim, Jhoon, Choi, Myungje, Hong, Jaemin, Lim, Hyunkwang, Eck, Thomas F., Holben, Brent N., Ahn, Joon-Young, Kim, Jeongsoo, and Koo, Ja-Ho
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- 2019
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14. Large global variations in measured airborne metal concentrations driven by anthropogenic sources
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McNeill, Jacob, Snider, Graydon, Weagle, Crystal L., Walsh, Brenna, Bissonnette, Paul, Stone, Emily, Abboud, Ihab, Akoshile, Clement, Anh, Nguyen Xuan, Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar, Brook, Jeffrey R., Coburn, Craig, Cohen, Aaron, Dong, Jinlu, Gagnon, Graham, Garland, Rebecca M., He, Kebin, Holben, Brent N., Kahn, Ralph, Kim, Jong Sung, Lagrosas, Nofel, Lestari, Puji, Liu, Yang, Jeba, Farah, Joy, Khaled Shaifullah, Martins, J. Vanderlei, Misra, Amit, Norford, Leslie K., Quel, Eduardo J., Salam, Abdus, Schichtel, Bret, Tripathi, S. N., Wang, Chien, Zhang, Qiang, Brauer, Michael, Gibson, Mark D., Rudich, Yinon, and Martin, Randall V.
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- 2020
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15. Intercomparison of Aerosol Volume Size Distributions Derived from AERONET Ground-Based Remote Sensing and LARGE in Situ Aircraft Profiles During the 2011–2014 DRAGON and DISCOVER-AQ Experiments
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Schafer, Joel S, Eck, Tom F, Holben, Brent N, Thornhill, Kenneth L, Ziemba, Luke D, Sawamura, Patricia, Moore, Richard H, Slutsker, Ilya, Anderson, Bruce E, Sinyuk, Alexander, Giles, David M, Smirnov, Alexander, Beyersdorf, Andreas J, and Winstead, Edward L
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
Aerosol volume size distribution (VSD) retrievals from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) aerosol monitoring network were obtained during multiple DRAGON (Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observational Network) campaigns conducted in Maryland, California, Texas and Colorado from 2011 to 2014. These VSD retrievals from the field campaigns were used to make comparisons with near-simultaneous in situ samples from aircraft profiles carried out by the NASA Langley Aerosol Group Experiment (LARGE) team as part of four campaigns comprising the DISCOVER-AQ (Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality) experiments. For coincident (1 h) measurements there were a total of 91 profile-averaged fine-mode size distributions acquired with the LARGE ultra-high sensitivity aerosol spectrometer (UHSAS) instrument matched to 153 AERONET size distributions retrieved from almucantars at 22 different ground sites. These volume size distributions were characterized by two fine-mode parameters, the radius of peak concentration (rpeak_conc) and the VSD fine-mode width (widthpeak_conc). The AERONET retrievals of these VSD fine-mode parameters, derived from ground-based almucantar sun photometer data, represent ambient humidity values while the LARGE aircraft spiral profile retrievals provide dried aerosol (relative humidity; RH< 20 %) values. For the combined multiple campaign dataset, the average difference in rpeak_conc was 0:0330:035 μm (ambient AERONET values were 15.8% larger than dried LARGE values), and the average difference in widthpeak_conc was 0:0420:039 μm (AERONET values were 25.7% larger). For a subset of aircraft data, the LARGE data were adjusted to account for ambient humidification. For these cases, the AERONET–LARGE average differences were smaller, with rpeak_conc differing by 0:0110:019 μm (AERONET values were 5.2% larger) and widthpeak_conc average differences equal to 0:0300:037 μm (AERONET values were 15.8% larger).
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- 2019
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16. Discerning the pre-monsoon urban atmosphere aerosol characteristic and its potential source type remotely sensed by AERONET over the Bengal Gangetic plain
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Priyadharshini, Babu, Verma, Shubha, Giles, David M., and Holben, Brent N.
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- 2018
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17. Observation of optical properties and sources of aerosols at Buddha’s birthplace, Lumbini, Nepal: environmental implications
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Rupakheti, Dipesh, Kang, Shichang, Rupakheti, Maheswar, Cong, Zhiyuan, Tripathee, Lekhendra, Panday, Arnico K., and Holben, Brent N.
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- 2018
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18. Applying Advanced Ground-Based Remote Sensing in the Southeast Asian Maritime Continent to Characterize Regional Proficiencies in Smoke Transport Modeling
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Campbell, James R., Ge, Cui, Wang, Jun, Welton, Ellsworth J., Bucholtz, Anthony, Hyer, Edward J., Reid, Elizabeth A., Chew, Boon Ning, Liew, Soo-Chin, Salinas, Santo V., Lolli, Simone, Kaku, Kathleen C., Lynch, Peng, Mahmud, Mastura, Mohamad, Maznorizan, and Holben, Brent N.
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- 2016
19. Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX‐AQ)
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Warneke, Carsten, Schwarz, Joshua P., Washenfelder, Rebecca A., Wiggins, Elizabeth B., Moore, Richard H., Anderson, Bruce E., Jordan, Carolyn, Yacovitch, Tara I., Herndon, Scott C., Liu, Shang, Kuwayama, Toshihiro, Jaffe, Daniel, Dibb, Jack, Johnston, Nancy, Selimovic, Vanessa, Yokelson, Robert, Giles, David M., Holben, Brent N., Goloub, Philippe, Popovici, Ioana, Trainer, Michael, Kumar, Aditya, Pierce, R. Bradley, Kalashnikova, Olga, Fahey, David, Roberts, James, Gargulinski, Emily M., Peterson, David A., Ye, Xinxin, Thapa, Laura H., Saide, Pablo E., Fite, Charles H., Holmes, Christopher D., Wang, Siyuan, Frost, Gregory, Coggon, Matthew M., Decker, Zachary C. J., Stockwell, Chelsea E., Xu, Lu, Gkatzelis, Georgios, Aikin, Kenneth, Lefer, Barry, Kaspari, Jackson, Griffin, Debora, Zeng, Linghan, Al-Saad, Jassim, Weber, Rodney, Hastings, Meredith, Chai, Jiajue, Wolfe, Glenn M., Hanisco, Thomas F., Liao, Jin, Campuzano Jost, Pedro, Guo, Hongyu, Jimenez, Jose L., Crawford, James, Brown, Steven S., Brewer, Wm. Alan, Soja, Amber, and Seidel, Felix C.
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Atmospheric Science ,Geophysics ,Space and Planetary Science ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,ddc:550 - Abstract
The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (a) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft, satellites and ground-based instruments, (b) make extensive suborbital remote sensing measurements of fire dynamics, (c) assess local, regional, and global modeling of fires, and (d) strengthen connections to observables on the ground such as fuels and fuel consumption and satellite products such as burned area and fire radiative power. From Boise, ID western wildfires were studied with the NASA DC-8 and two NOAA Twin Otter aircraft. The high-altitude NASA ER-2 was deployed from Palmdale, CA to observe some of these fires in conjunction with satellite overpasses and the other aircraft. Further research was conducted on three mobile laboratories and ground sites, and 17 different modeling forecast and analyses products for fire, fuels and air quality and climate implications. From Salina, KS the DC-8 investigated 87 smaller fires in the Southeast with remote and in-situ data collection. Sampling by all platforms was designed to measure emissions of trace gases and aerosols with multiple transects to capture the chemical transformation of these emissions and perform remote sensing observations of fire and smoke plumes under day and night conditions. The emissions were linked to fuels consumed and fire radiative power using orbital and suborbital remote sensing observations collected during overflights of the fires and smoke plumes and ground sampling of fuels.
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20. Aerosol remote sensing in polar regions
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Tomasi, Claudio, Kokhanovsky, Alexander A., Lupi, Angelo, Ritter, Christoph, Smirnov, Alexander, O'Neill, Norman T., Stone, Robert S., Holben, Brent N., Nyeki, Stephan, Wehrli, Christoph, Stohl, Andreas, Mazzola, Mauro, Lanconelli, Christian, Vitale, Vito, Stebel, Kerstin, Aaltonen, Veijo, de Leeuw, Gerrit, Rodriguez, Edith, Herber, Andreas B., Radionov, Vladimir F., Zielinski, Tymon, Petelski, Tomasz, Sakerin, Sergey M., Kabanov, Dmitry M., Xue, Yong, Mei, Linlu, Istomina, Larysa, Wagener, Richard, McArthur, Bruce, Sobolewski, Piotr S., Kivi, Rigel, Courcoux, Yann, Larouche, Pierre, Broccardo, Stephen, and Piketh, Stuart J.
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21. The Impact of Neglecting Ice Phase on Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals from AERONET Cloud Mode Observations
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Shonk, Jonathan K. P, Chiu, Jui-Yuan Christine, Marshak, Alexander, Giles, David M, Huang, Chiung-Huei, Mace, Gerald G, Benson, Sally, Slutsker, Ilya, and Holben, Brent N
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
Clouds present many challenges to climate modelling. To develop and verify the parameterisations needed to allow climate models to represent cloud structure and processes, there is a need for high-quality observations of cloud optical depth from locations around the world. Retrievals of cloud optical depth are obtainable from radiances measured by Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) radiometers in “cloud mode” using a two-wavelength retrieval method. However, the method is unable to detect cloud phase, and hence assumes that all of the cloud in a profile is liquid. This assumption has the potential to introduce errors into long term statistics of retrieved optical depth for clouds that also contain ice. Using a set of idealized cloud profiles we find that, for optical depths above 20, the fractional error in retrieved optical depth is a linear function of the fraction of the optical depth that is due to the presence of ice cloud (“ice fraction”). Clouds that are entirely ice have positive errors with magnitudes of the order of 55% to 70 %. We derive a simple linear equation that can be used as a correction at AERONET sites where ice fraction can be independently estimated. Using this linear equation, we estimate the magnitude of the error for a set of cloud profiles from five sites of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement programme. The dataset contains separate retrievals of ice and liquid retrievals; hence ice fraction can be estimated. The magnitude of the error at each location was related to the relative frequencies of occurrence in thick frontal cloud at the mid-latitude sites and of deep convection at the tropical sites – that is, of deep cloud containing both ice and liquid particles. The long-term mean optical depth error at the five locations spans the range 2– 4, which we show to be small enough to allow calculation of top-of-atmosphere flux to within 10% and surface flux to about 15 %.
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22. Passive shortwave remote sensing from the Ground
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Shaw, Glenn E., Holben, Brent N., Remer, Lorraine A., Lenoble, Jacqueline, editor, Remer, Lorraine, editor, and Tanre, Didier, editor
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- 2013
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23. Simultaneous retrievals of biomass burning aerosols and trace gases from the ultraviolet to near-infrared over northern Thailand during the 2019 pre-monsoon season
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Jeong, Ukkyo, primary, Tsay, Si-Chee, additional, Hsu, N. Christina, additional, Giles, David M., additional, Cooper, John W., additional, Lee, Jaehwa, additional, Swap, Robert J., additional, Holben, Brent N., additional, Butler, James J., additional, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, additional, Chantara, Somporn, additional, Hong, Hyunkee, additional, Kim, Donghee, additional, and Kim, Jhoon, additional
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- 2022
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24. Relationship between Land Use and Spatial Variability of Atmospheric Brown Carbon and Black Carbon Aerosols in Amazonia
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Morais, Fernando G., primary, Franco, Marco A., additional, Palácios, Rafael, additional, Machado, Luiz A. T., additional, Rizzo, Luciana V., additional, Barbosa, Henrique M. J., additional, Jorge, Fabio, additional, Schafer, Joel S., additional, Holben, Brent N., additional, Landulfo, Eduardo, additional, and Artaxo, Paulo, additional
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- 2022
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25. Employing relaxed smoothness constraints on imaginary part of refractive index in AERONET aerosol retrieval algorithm
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Sinyuk, Alexander, primary, Holben, Brent N., additional, Eck, Thomas F., additional, Giles, David M., additional, Slutsker, Ilya, additional, Dubovik, Oleg, additional, Schafer, Joel S., additional, Smirnov, Alexander, additional, and Sorokin, Mikhail, additional
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- 2022
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26. Evaluation of the Land Surface Reflectance Fundamental Climate Data Record
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Roger, Jean-Claude, Vermote, Eric, Skakun, Sergii, Murphy, Emilie, and Holben, Brent N
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
The land surface reflectance is a fundamental climate data record at the basis of the derivation of other climate data records (Albedo, LAI/Fpar, Vegetation indices) and has been recognized as a key parameter in the understanding of the land-surface-climate processes. In this presentation, we present the validation of the Land surface reflectance used for MODIS, VIIRS, Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 data. This methodology uses the 6SV Code and data from the AERONET network. The overall accuracy clearly reaches the satellite specifications. To understand how to improve the validation, we developed an exhaustive error budget. Results show an impact of the absorption of aerosol and of the fine mode volume concentration.
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- 2018
27. Comparisons of Spectral Aerosol Single Scattering Albedo in Seoul, South Korea
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Mok, Jungbin, Krotkov, Nickolay A, Torres, Omar, Jethva, Hiren, Li, Zhanqing, Kim, Jhoon, Koo, Ja-Ho, Go, Sujung, Irie, Hitoshi, Labow, Gordon, Eck, Thomas F, Holben, Brent N, Herman, Jay, Loughman, Robert P, Spinei, Elena, Lee, Seoung Soo, Khatri, Pradeep, and Campanelli, Monica
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Environment Pollution - Abstract
Quantifying aerosol absorption at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths is important for monitoring air pollution and aerosol amounts using current (e.g., Aura/OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument)) and future (e.g., TROPOMI (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument), TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution), GEMS (Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer) and Sentinel-4) satellite measurements. Measurements of column average atmospheric aerosol single scattering albedo (SSA) are performed on the ground by the NASA AERONET (AEROsol robotic NETwork) in the visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths and in the UV-VIS-NIR by the SKYNET (SKY radiometer NETwork) networks. Previous comparison studies have focused on VIS and NIR wavelengths due to the lack of co-incident measurements of aerosol and gaseous absorption properties in the UV. This study compares the SKYNET-retrieved SSA in the UV with the SSA derived from a combination of AERONET, MFRSR (MultiFilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer), and Pandora (AMP) retrievals in Seoul, South Korea, in spring and summer 2016. The results show that the spectrally invariant surface albedo assumed in the SKYNET SSA retrievals leads to underestimated SSA compared to AMP values at near UV wavelengths. Re-processed SKYNET inversions using spectrally varying surface albedo, consistent with the AERONET retrieval improve agreement with AMP SSA. The combined AMP inversions allow for separating aerosol and gaseous (NO2 and O3) absorption and provide aerosol retrievals from the shortest UVB (305 nanometers) through VIS to NIR wavelengths (870 nanometers).
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- 2018
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28. An Overview of Mesoscale Aerosol Processes, Comparisons, and Validation Studies from DRAGON Networks
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Holben, Brent N, Kim, Jhoon, Sano, Itaru, Mukai, Sonoyo, Eck, Thomas F, Giles, David M, Schafer, Joel S, Sinyuk, Aliaksandr, Slutsker, Ilya, Smirnov, Alexander, Sorokin, Mikhail, Anderson, Bruce E, Che, Huizheng, Choi, Myungje, Crawford, James H, Ferrare, Richard A, Garay, Michael J, Jeong, Ukkyo, Kim, Mijin, Kim, Woogyung, Knox, Nichola, Li, Zhengqiang, Lim, Hwee S, Liu, Yang, Maring, Hal, Nakata, Makiko, Pickering, Kenneth E, Piketh, Stuart, Redemann, Jens, Reid, Jeffrey S, Salinas, Santo, Seo, Sora, Tan, Fuyi, Tripathi, Sachchida N, Toon, Owen B, and Xiao, Qingyang
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
Over the past 24 years, the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) program has provided highly accurate remote-sensing characterization of aerosol optical and physical properties for an increasingly extensive geographic distribution including all continents and many oceanic island and coastal sites. The measurements and retrievals from the AERONET global network have addressed satellite and model validation needs very well, but there have been challenges in making comparisons to similar parameters from in situ surface and airborne measurements. Additionally, with improved spatial and temporal satellite remote sensing of aerosols, there is a need for higher spatial-resolution ground-based remote-sensing networks. An effort to address these needs resulted in a number of field campaign networks called Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observation Networks (DRAGONs) that were designed to provide a database for in situ and remote-sensing comparison and analysis of local to mesoscale variability in aerosol properties. This paper describes the DRAGON deployments that will continue to contribute to the growing body of research related to meso- and microscale aerosol features and processes. The research presented in this special issue illustrates the diversity of topics that has resulted from the application of data from these networks.
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- 2018
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29. Ultra-Stable Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (5STAR)
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Dunagan, Stephen E, Johnson, Roy R, Redemann, Jens, Holben, Brent N, Schmidt, Beat, Flynn, Connor Joseph, Fahey, Lauren, LeBlanc, Samuel, Liss, Jordan, Kacenelenbogen, Meloe S, Segal-Rozenhaimer, Michal, Shinozuka, Yohei, Dahlgren, Robert P, Pistone, Kristina, and Karol, Yana
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
The Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR) combines airborne sun tracking and sky scanning with diffraction spectroscopy to improve knowledge of atmospheric constituents and their links to airpollution and climate. Direct beam hyperspectral measurement of optical depth improves retrievals of gas constituentsand determination of aerosol properties. Sky scanning enhances retrievals of aerosol type and size distribution.Hyperspectral cloud-transmitted radiance measurements enable the retrieval of cloud properties from below clouds.These measurements tighten the closure between satellite and ground-based measurements. 4STAR incorporates amodular sun-tracking sky-scanning optical head with optical fiber signal transmission to rack mounted spectrometers,permitting miniaturization of the external optical tracking head, and future detector evolution.4STAR has supported a broad range of flight experiments since it was first flown in 2010. This experience provides thebasis for a series of improvements directed toward reducing measurement uncertainty and calibration complexity, andexpanding future measurement capabilities, to be incorporated into a new 5STAR instrument. A 9-channel photodioderadiometer with AERONET-matched bandpass filters will be incorporated to improve calibration stability. A wide dynamic range tracking camera will provide a high precision solar position tracking signal as well as an image of sky conditions around the solar axis. An ultrasonic window cleaning system design will be tested. A UV spectrometer tailored for formaldehyde and SO2 gas retrievals will be added to the spectrometer enclosure. Finally, expansion capability for a 4 channel polarized radiometer to measure the Stokes polarization vector of sky light will be incorporated. This paper presents initial progress on this next-generation 5STAR instrument.
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30. Simultaneous Characterization of Wildfire Smoke and Surface Properties With Imaging Spectroscopy During the FIREX‐AQ Field Campaign
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Brodrick, Philip G., primary, Thompson, David R., additional, Garay, Michael J., additional, Giles, David M., additional, Holben, Brent N., additional, and Kalashnikova, Olga V., additional
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- 2022
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31. Assimilation of AERONET and MODIS AOT Observations Using Variational and Ensemble Data Assimilation Methods and Its Impact on Aerosol Forecasting Skill
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Rubin, Juli I, Reid, Jeffrey S, Hansen, James A, Anderson, Jeffrey L, Holben, Brent N, Xian, Peng, Westphal, Douglas L, and Zhang, Jianglong
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Geophysics - Abstract
Data assimilation of Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aerosol optical thickness (AOT) for aerosol forecasting was tested within the Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System (NAAPS) framework, using variational and ensemble data assimilation methods. Navy aerosol forecasting currently makes use of a deterministic NAAPS simulation coupled to Navy Variational Data Assimilation System for aerosol optical depth, a two-dimensional variational data assimilation system, for MODIS AOT assimilation. An ensemble version of NAAPS (ENAAPS) coupled to an ensemble adjustment Kalman filter (EAKF) from the Data Assimilation Research Testbed was recently developed, allowing for a range of data assimilation and forecasting experiments to be run with deterministic NAAPS and ENAAPS. The main findings are that the EAKF, with its flow-dependent error covariances, makes better use of sparse observations such as AERONET AOT. Assimilating individual AERONET observations in the two-dimensional variational system can increase the analysis errors when observations are located in high AOT gradient regions. By including AERONET with MODIS AOT assimilation, the magnitudes of peak aerosol events (AOT> 1) were better captured with improved temporal variability, especially in India and Asia where aerosol prediction is a challenge. Assimilating AERONET AOT with MODIS had little impact on the 24 h forecast skill compared to MODIS assimilation only, but differences were found downwind of AERONET sites. The 24 h forecast skill was approximately the same for forecasts initialized with analyses from AERONET AOT assimilation alone compared to MODIS assimilation, particularly in regions where the AERONET network is dense; including the United States and Europe, indicating that AERONET could serve as a backup observation network for over-land synoptic-scale aerosol events.
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- 2017
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32. Ground-Based High Spectral Resolution Lidar Observation of Aerosol Vertical Distribution in the Summertime Southeast United States
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Reid, Jeffrey S, Kuehen, Ralph E, Holz, Robert E, Eloranta, Edwin W, Kaku, Kathleen C, Kuang, Shi, Newchurch, Michael J, Thompson, Anne M, Trepte, Charles R, Zhang, Jianglong, Atwood, Samuel A, Hand, Jenny L, Holben, Brent N, Minnis, Patrick, and Posselt, Derek J
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
As part of the Southeast United States-based Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS), and collinear with part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study, the University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution Lidar system was deployed to the University of Alabama from 19 June to 4 November 2013. With a collocated Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sun photometer, a nearby Chemical Speciation Network (PM2.5) measurement station, and near daily ozonesonde releases for the August-September SEAC4RS campaign, the site allowed the regions first comprehensive diurnal monitoring of aerosol particle vertical structure. A 532nm lidar ratio of 55 sr provided good closure between aerosol backscatter and AERONET (aerosol optical thickness, AOT). A principle component analysis was performed to identify key modes of variability in aerosol backscatter. ''Fair weather'' days exhibited classic planetary boundary layer structure of a mixed layer accounting for approx. 50% of AOT and an entrainment zone providing another 25%. An additional 5-15% of variance is gained from the lower free troposphere from either convective detrainment or frequent intrusions of western United States biomass burning smoke. Generally, aerosol particles were contained below the 0 C level, a common level of stability in convective regimes. However, occasional strong injections of smoke to the upper troposphere were also observed, accounting for the remaining 10-15% variability in AOT. Examples of these common modes of variability in frontal and convective regimes are presented, demonstrating why AOT often has only a weak relationship to surface PM2.5 concentration.
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33. Long-Term Variation of Aerosol Optical Properties Associated with Aerosol Types Over East Asia Using Aeronet and Satellite (Viirs, Omi) Data
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Eom, Sujin, primary, Kim, Jhoon, additional, Lee, Seoyoung, additional, Holben, Brent N., additional, Eck, Thomas F., additional, Park, Sung-Bin, additional, and Park, Sang Seo, additional
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34. Radiative Characteristics of Aerosol During Extreme Fire Event over Siberia in Summer 2012
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Zhuravleva, Tatiana B, Kabanov, Dmitriy M, Nasrtdinov, Ilmir M, Russkova, Tatiana V, Sakerin, Sergey M, Smirnov, Alexander, and Holben, Brent N
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Microphysical and optical properties of aerosol were studied during a mega-fire event in summer 2012 over Siberia using ground-based measurements of spectral solarradiation at the AERONET site in Tomsk and satellite observations. The data were analyzed using multi-year (2003-2013) measurements of aerosol characteristics under back-ground conditions and for less intense fires, differing in burning biomass type, stage of fire, remoteness from observation site, etc. (ordinary smoke). In June-August 2012, the average aerosol optical depth (AOD, 500 nm) had been 0.95+/-0.86, about a factor of 6 larger than background values (0.16+/-0.08), and a factor of 2.5 larger than in ordinary smoke. The AOD values were extremely high on 24-28 July and reached 3-5. A comparison with satellite observations showed that ground-based measurements in the region of Tomsk not only reflect the local AOD features, but are also characteristic for the territory of Western Siberia as a whole. Single scattering albedo (SSA, 440 nm) in this period ranged from 0.91 to 0.99 with an average of approx. 0.96 in the entire wavelength range of 440-1020 nm. The increase in absorptance of aerosol particles (SSA(440 nm)=0.92) and decrease in SSA with wavelength observed in ordinary smoke agree with the data from multi-year observations in analogous situations in the boreal zone of USA and Canada. Volume aerosol size distribution in extreme and ordinary smoke had a bimodal character with significant prevalence of fine-mode particles, but in summer 2012 the mean median radius and the width of the fine-mode distribution somewhat increased. In contrast to data from multi-year observations, in summer 2012 an increase in the volume concentration and median radius of the coarse mode was observed with growing AOD.
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35. Comparison of Key Absorption and Optical Properties Between Pure and Transported Anthropogenic Dust over East and Central Asia
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Bi, Jianrong, Huang, Jianping, Holben, Brent N, and Zhang, Guolong
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Asian dust particulate is one of the primary aerosol constituents in the Earth-atmosphere system that exerts profound influences on environmental quality, human health, the marine biogeochemical cycle, and Earth's climate. To date, the absorptive capacity of dust aerosol generated from the Asian desert region is still an open question. In this article, we compile columnar key absorption and optical properties of mineral dust over East and Central Asian areas by utilizing the multiyear quality-assured datasets observed at 13 sites of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). We identify two types of Asian dust according to threshold criteria from previously published literature. (1) The particles with high aerosol optical depth at 440 nm (AOD(440) > or = 0.4) and a low Angstrom wavelength exponent at 440-870 nm (alpha < 0.2) are defined as Pure Dust (PDU), which decreases disturbance of other non-dust aerosols and keeps high accuracy of pure Asian dust. (2) The particles with AOD(440) > or = 0.4 and 0.2 < alpha < 0.6 are designated as Transported Anthropogenic Dust (TDU), which is mainly dominated by dust aerosol and might mix with other anthropogenic aerosol types. Our results reveal that the primary components of high AOD days are predominantly dust over East and Central Asian regions, even if their variations rely on different sources, distance from the source, emission mechanisms, and meteorological characteristics. The overall mean and standard deviation of single-scattering albedo, asymmetry factor, real part and imaginary part of complex refractive index at 550 nm for Asian PDU are 0.935 +/- 0.014, 0.742 +/- 0.008, 1.526 +/- 0.029, and 0.00226 +/- 0.00056, respectively, while corresponding values are 0.921 +/- 0.021, 0.723 +/- 0.009, 1.521 +/- 0.025, and 0.00364 +/- 0.0014 for Asian TDU. Aerosol shortwave direct radiative effects at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), at the surface (SFC), and in the atmospheric layer (ATM) for Asian PDU (alpha < 0.2) and TDU (0.2 < alpha < 0.6) computed in this study, are a factor of 2 smaller than the results of Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds (OPAC) mineral-accumulated (mineral-acc.) and mineral-transported (mineral-tran.) modes. Therefore, we are convinced that our results hold promise for updating and improving accuracies of Asian dust characteristics in present-day remote sensing applications and regional or global climate models.
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36. Spaceborne Remote Sensing of Aerosol Type: Global Distribution, Model Evaluation and Translation into Chemical Speciation
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Kacenelenbogen, Meloe Shenando, Tan, Qian, Jimenez, J.L, Jacob, Daniel J, Johnson, Matthew Stephen, Kim, P.S, Travis, K. R, Lacagnina, C, Burton, Sharon Patricia, Redemann, Jens, Hasekamp, Otto, Dawson, K.W, Holben, Brent N, Hair, Johnathan W, Ferrare, Richard A, Butler, Carolyn F, Beyersdorf, Andreas J, Ziemba, Luke David, Froyd, Karl David, Dibb, Jack Eaton, Shingler, Taylor, Sorooshian, Armin, and Jimenez-Palacios, Jose Luis
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It is essential to evaluate and refine aerosol classification methods applied to passive satellite remote sensing. We have developed an aerosol classification algorithm (called Specified Clustering and Mahalanobis Classification, SCMC) that assigns an aerosol type to multi-parameter retrievals by spaceborne, airborne or ground-based passive remote sensing instruments [1]. The aerosol types identified by our scheme are pure dust, polluted dust, urban-industrialdeveloped economy, urban-industrialdeveloping economy, dark biomass smoke, light biomass smoke and pure marine. We apply the SCMC method to inversions from the ground-based AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET [2]) and retrievals from the space-borne Polarization and Directionality of Earths Reflectances instrument (POLDER, [3]). The POLDER retrievals that we use differ from the standard POLDER retrievals [4] as they make full use of multi-angle, multispectral polarimetric data [5]. We analyze agreement in the aerosol types inferred from both AERONET and POLDER and evaluate GEOS-Chem [6] simulations over the globe. Finally, we use in-situ observations from the SEAC4RS airborne field experiment to bridge the gap between remote sensing-inferred qualitative SCMC aerosol types and their corresponding quantitative chemical speciation. We apply the SCMC method to airborne in-situ observations from the NASA Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment (LARGE, [7]) and the Differential Aerosol Sizing and Hygroscopicity Spectrometer Probe (DASH-SP, [8]) instruments; we then relate each coarsely defined SCMC type to a sum of percentage of individual aerosol species, using in-situ observations from the Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry (PALMS, [9]), the Soluble Acidic Gases and Aerosol (SAGA, [10]), and the High - Resolution Time - of - Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR ToF AMS, [11]).
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37. Regional and Local Variations in Atmospheric Aerosols Using Ground-Based Sun Photometry During Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observation Networks (DRAGON) in 2012
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Sano, Itaru, Mukai, Sonoyo, Nakata, Makiko, and Holben, Brent N
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Aerosol mass concentrations are affected by local emissions as well as long-range transboundary (LRT) aerosols. This work investigates regional and local variations of aerosols based on Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observation Networks (DRAGON).We constructed DRAGON-Japan and DRAGON-Osaka in spring of 2012. The former network covers almost all of Japan in order to obtain aerosol information in regional scale over Japanese islands. It was determined from the DRAGON-Japan campaign that the values of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) decrease from west to east during an aerosol episode. In fact, the highest AOT was recorded at Fukue Island at the western end of the network, and the value was much higher than that of urban areas. The latter network (DRAGON-Osaka) was set as a dense instrument network in the megalopolis of Osaka, with a population of 12 million, to better understand local aerosol dynamics in urban areas. AOT was further measured with a mobile sun photometer attached to a car. This transect information showed that aerosol concentrations rapidly changed in time and space together when most of the Osaka area was covered with moderate LRT aerosols. The combined use of the dense instrument network (DRAGON-Osaka) and high-frequency measurements provides the motion of aerosol advection, which coincides with the wind vector around the layer between 700 and 850 hPa as provided by the reanalysis data of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).
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38. Aerosol Meteorology of the Maritime Continent for the 2012 7SEAS Southwest Monsoon Intensive Study - Part 1: Regional-scale Phenomena
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Reid, Jeffrey S, Xian, Peng, Holben, Brent N, Hyer, Edward J, Reid, Elizabeth A, Salinas, Santo V, Zhang, Jianglong, Campbell, James R, Chew, Boon Ning, Holz, Robert E, Kuciauskas, Arunas P, Lagrosas, Nofel, Posselt, Derek J, Sampson, Charles R, Walker, Annette L, Welton, E. Judd, and Zhang, Chidong
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The largest 7 Southeast Asian Studies (7SEAS) operation period within the Maritime Continent (MC) occurred in the August-September 2012 biomass burning season. Included was an enhanced deployment of Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sun photometers, multiple lidars, and field measurements to observe transported smoke and pollution as it left the MC and entered the southwest monsoon trough. Here we describe the nature of the overall 2012 southwest monsoon (SWM) and biomass burning season to give context to the 2012 deployment. The MC in 2012 was in a slightly warm El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phase and with spatially typical burning activity. However, overall fire counts for 2012 were 10 lower than the Reid et al. (2012) baseline, with regions of significant departures from this norm, ranging from southern Sumatra (+30) to southern Kalimantan (42). Fire activity and monsoonal flows for the dominant burning regions were modulated by a series of intraseasonal oscillation events (e.g., Madden-Julian Oscillation, or MJO, and boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation, or BSISO). As is typical, fire activity systematically progressed eastward over time, starting with central Sumatran fire activity in June related to a moderately strong MJO event which brought drier air from the Indian Ocean aloft and enhanced monsoonal flow. Further burning in Sumatra and Kalimantan Borneo occurred in a series of significant events from early August to a peak in the first week of October, ending when the monsoon started to migrate back to its wintertime northeastern flow conditions in mid-October. Significant monsoonal enhancements and flow reversals collinear with tropical cyclone (TC) activity and easterly waves were also observed. Islands of the eastern MC, including Sulawesi, Java, and Timor, showed less sensitivity to monsoonal variation, with slowly increasing fire activity that also peaked in early October but lingered into November. Interestingly, even though fire counts were middling, resultant AERONET 500nm aerosol optical thickness (AOT) from fire activity was high, with maximums of 3.6 and 5.6 in the Sumatra and Kalimantan source regions at the end of the burning season and an average of approximately 1. AOTs could also be high at receptor sites, with a mean and maximum of 0.57 and 1.24 in Singapore and 0.61 and 0.8 in Kuching Sarawak. Ultimately, outside of the extreme 2015 El Nino event, average AERONET AOT values were higher than any other time since sites were established. Thus, while satellite fire data, models, and AERONET all qualitatively agree on the nature of smoke production and transport, the MC's complex environment resulted in clear differences in quantitative interpretation of these datasets.
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39. In-Situ and Remotely-Sensed Observations of Biomass Burning Aerosols at Doi Ang Khang, Thailand During 7-SEAS BASELInE 2015
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Sayer, Andrew M, Hsu, N. Christina, Hsiao, Ta-Chih, Pantina, Peter, Kuo, Ferret, Ou-Yang, Chang-Feng, Holben, Brent N, Janjai, Serm, Chantara, Somporn, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, Loftus, Adrian M, Lin, Neng-Huei, and Tsay, Si-Chee
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The spring 2015 deployment of a suite of instrumentation at Doi Ang Khang (DAK) in northwestern Thailand enabled the characterization of air masses containing smoke aerosols from burning predominantly in Myanmar. Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Sun photometer data were used to validate Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 "Deep Blue" aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals; MODIS Terra and Aqua provided results of similar quality, with correlation coefficients of 0.93-0.94 and similar agreement within expected uncertainties to global-average performance. Scattering and absorption measurements were used to compare surface and total column aerosol single scatter albedo (SSA); while the two were well-correlated, and showed consistent positive relationships with moisture (increasing SSA through the season as surface relative humidity and total columnar water vapor increased), in situ surface-level SSA was nevertheless significantly lower by 0.12-0.17. This could be related to vertical heterogeneity and/or instrumental issues. DAK is at approximately 1,500 meters above sea level in heterogeneous terrain, and the resulting strong diurnal variability in planetary boundary layer depth above the site leads to high temporal variability in both surface and column measurements, and acts as a controlling factor to the ratio between surface particulate matter (PM) levels and column AOD. In contrast, while some hygroscopic effects were observed relating to aerosol particle size and Angstrom exponent, relative humidity variations appear to be less important for this ratio here. As part of the Seven South-East Asian Studies (7-SEAS) project, the Biomass-burning Aerosols & Stratocumulus Environment: Lifecycles and Interactions Experiment (BASELInE) was intended to probe physicochemical processes, interactions, and feedbacks related to biomass burning aerosols and clouds during the spring burning season (February-April) in southeast Asia (SEA).
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40. Satellite-Surface Perspectives of Air Quality and Aerosol-Cloud Effects on the Environment: An Overview of 7-SEAS BASELInE
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Tsay, Si-Chee, Maring, Hal B, Lin, Neng-Huei, Buntoung, Sumaman, Chantara, Somporn, Chuang, Hsiao-Chi, Gabriel, Philip M, Goodloe, Colby S, Holben, Brent N, Hsiao, Ta-Chih, Hsu, Nai-Yung Christina, Janjai, Serm, Lau, William K. M, Lee, Chung-Te, Lee, Jaehwa, Loftus, Adrian M, Nguyen, Anh X, Nguyen, Cuong M, Pani, Shantanu K, Pantina, Peter, Sayer, Andrew M, Tao, Wei-Kuo, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, Welton, Ellsworth J, Wiriya, Wan, and Yen, Ming-Cheng
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Environment Pollution ,Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
The objectives of 7-SEASBASELInE (Seven SouthEast Asian Studies Biomass-burning Aerosols and Stratocumulus Environment: Lifecycles and Interactions Experiment) campaigns in spring 2013-2015 were to synergize measurements from uniquely distributed ground-based networks (e.g., AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork)), MPLNET ( NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network)) and sophisticated platforms (e.g.,SMARTLabs (Surface-based Mobile Atmospheric Research and Testbed Laboratories), regional contributing instruments), along with satellite observations retrievals and regional atmospheric transport chemical models to establish a critically needed database, and to advance our understanding of biomass-burning aerosols and trace gases in Southeast Asia (SEA). We present a satellite-surface perspective of 7-SEASBASELInE and highlight scientific findings concerning: (1) regional meteorology of moisture fields conducive to the production and maintenance of low-level stratiform clouds over land; (2) atmospheric composition in a biomass-burning environment, particularly tracers-markers to serve as important indicators for assessing the state and evolution of atmospheric constituents; (3) applications of remote sensing to air quality and impact on radiative energetics, examining the effect of diurnal variability of boundary-layer height on aerosol loading; (4) aerosol hygroscopicity and ground-based cloud radar measurements in aerosol-cloud processes by advanced cloud ensemble models; and (5) implications of air quality, in terms of toxicity of nanoparticles and trace gases, to human health. This volume is the third 7-SEAS special issue (after Atmospheric Research, vol. 122, 2013; and Atmospheric Environment, vol. 78, 2013) and includes 27 papers published, with emphasis on air quality and aerosol-cloud effects on the environment. BASELInE observations of stratiform clouds over SEA are unique, such clouds are embedded in a heavy aerosol-laden environment and feature characteristically greater stability over land than over ocean, with minimal radar surface clutter at a high vertical spatial resolution. To facilitate an improved understanding of regional aerosol-cloud effects, we envision that future BASELInE-like measurement modeling needs fall into two categories: (1) efficient yet critical in-situ profiling of the boundary layer for validating remote-sensing retrievals and for initializing regional transport chemical and cloud ensemble models; and (2) fully utilizing the high observing frequencies of geostationary satellites for resolving the diurnal cycle of the boundary layerheight as it affects the loading of biomass-burning aerosols, air quality and radiative energetics.
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41. A global-scale analysis of the MISR Level-3 aerosol optical depth (AOD) product: Comparison with multi-platform AOD data sources
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Gui, Ke, primary, Che, Huizheng, additional, Wang, Yaqiang, additional, Xia, Xiangao, additional, Holben, Brent N., additional, Goloub, Philippe, additional, Cuevas-Agulló, Emilio, additional, Yao, Wenrui, additional, Zheng, Yu, additional, Zhao, Hujia, additional, Li, Lei, additional, and Zhang, Xiaoye, additional
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42. Columnar aerosol types and compositions over peninsular Southeast Asia based on long-term AERONET data
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Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, primary, Huang, Hsiang-Yu, additional, Lin, Che-Hsuan, additional, Pani, Shantanu Kumar, additional, Lin, Neng-Huei, additional, Lee, Chung-Te, additional, Janjai, Serm, additional, Holben, Brent N., additional, and Chantara, Somporn, additional
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43. Using the PARAGON Framework to Establish an Accurate, Consistent, and Cohesive Long-Term Aerosol Record
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Diner, David J., Menzies, Robert T., Kahn, Ralph A., Anderson, Theodore L., Bösenberg, Jens, Charlson, Robert J., Holben, Brent N., Hostetler, Chris A., Miller, Mark A., Ogren, John A., Stephens, Graeme L., Torres, Omar, Wielicki, Bruce A., Rasch, Philip J., Travis, Larry D., and Collins, William D.
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44. Aerosol Data Sources and Their Roles within PARAGON
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Kahn, Ralph A., Ogren, John A., Ackerman, Thomas P., Bösenberg, Jens, Charlson, Robert J., Diner, David J., Holben, Brent N., Menzies, Robert T., Miller, Mark A., and Seinfeld, John H.
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45. PARAGON : An Integrated Approach for Characterizing Aerosol Climate Impacts and Environmental Interactions
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Diner, David J., Ackerman, Thomas P., Anderson, Theodore L., Bösenberg, Jens, Braverman, Amy J., Charlson, Robert J., Collins, William D., Davies, Roger, Holben, Brent N., Hostetler, Chris A., Kahn, Ralph A., Martonchik, John V., Menzies, Robert T., Miller, Mark A., Ogren, John A., Penner, Joyce E., Rasch, Philip J., Schwartz, Stephen E., Seinfeld, John H., Stephens, Graeme L., Torres, Omar, Travis, Larry D., Wielicki, Bruce A., and Yu, Bin
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46. Radiative Effect of Springtime Biomass-Burning Aerosols over Northern Indochina During 7-SEAS Baseline 2013 Campaign
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Pani, Shantanu Kumar, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, Lin, Neng-Huei, Lee, Chung-Te, Tsay, Si-Chee, Holben, Brent N, Janjai, Serm, Hsiao, Ta-Chih, Chuang, Ming-Tung, and Chantara, Somporn
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The direct aerosol radiative effects of biomass-burning (BB) aerosols over northern Indochina were estimated by using aerosol properties (physical, chemical, and optical) along with the vertical profile measurements from ground-based measurements with integration of an optical and a radiative transfer model during the Seven South East Asian Studies Biomass-Burning Aerosols Stratocumulus Environment: Lifecycles Interactions Experiment (7-SEASBASELInE) conducted in spring 2013. Cluster analysis of backward trajectories showed the air masses arriving at mountainous background site (Doi Ang Khang; 19.93degN, 99.05degE, 1536 m above mean sea level) in northern Indochina, mainly from near-source inland BB activities and being confined in the planetary boundary layer. The PM(sub10) and black carbon (BC)mass were 87 +/- 28 and 7 +/- 2 micrograms m(exp -3), respectively. The aerosol optical depth (AOD (sub 500) was found to be 0.26--1.13 (0.71 +/- 0.24). Finer (fine mode fraction is approximately or equal to 0.95, angstrom-exponent at 440-870 nm is approximately or equal to 1.77) and significantly absorbing aerosols(single scattering albedo is approximately or equal to 0.89, asymmetry-parameter is approximately or equal to 0.67, and absorption AOD 0.1 at 440 nm) dominated over this region. BB aerosols (water soluble and BC) were the main contributor to the aerosol radiative forcing (ARF), while others (water insoluble, sea salt and mineral dust) were negligible mainly due to their low extinction efficiency. BC contributed only 6 to the surface aerosol mass but its contribution to AOD was 12 (2 times higher). The overall mean ARF was 8.0 and -31.4 W m(exp -2) at top-of-atmosphere (TOA) and at the surface (SFC), respectively. Likely, ARF due to BC was +10.7 and -18.1 W m(exp -2) at TOA and SFC, respectively. BC imposed the heating rate of +1.4 K d(exp -1) within the atmosphere and highlighting its pivotal role in modifying the radiation budget. We propose that to upgrade our knowledge on BB aerosol radiative effects in BB source region, the long-term and extensive field measurements are needed.
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47. Variation in Global Chemical Composition of PM2.5: Emerging Results from SPARTAN
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Snider, Graydon, Weagle, Crystal L, Murdymootoo, Kalaivani K, Ring, Amanda, Ritchie, Yvonne, Stone, Emily, Walsh, Ainsley, Akoshile, Clement, Anh, Nguyen Xuan, Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar, Brook, Jeff, Qonitan, Fatimah D, Dong, Jinlu, Griffith, Derek, He, Kebin, Holben, Brent N, Kahn, Ralph, Lagrosas, Nofel, Lestari, Puji, Ma, Zongwei, Misra, Amit, Norford, Leslie K, Quel, Eduardo J, Salam, Abdus, Schichtel, Bret, Segev, Lior, Tripathi, Sachchida, Wang, Chien, Yu, Chao, Zhang, Qiang, Zhang, Yuxuan, Brauer, Michael, Cohen, Aaron, Gibson, Mark D, Liu, Yang, Martins, J. Vanderlei, Rudich, Yinon, and Martin, Randall V
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The Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN) is a long-term project that includes characterization of chemical and physical attributes of aerosols from filter samples collected worldwide. This paper discusses the ongoing efforts of SPARTAN to define and quantify major ions and trace metals found in fine particulate matter (PM (sub 2.5). Our methods infer the spatial and temporal variability of PM (sub 2.5) in a cost-effective manner. Gravimetrically weighed filters represent multi-day averages of PM (sub 2.5), with a collocated nephelometer sampling air continuously. SPARTAN instruments are paired with AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) sun photometers to better understand the relationship between ground-level PM (sub 2.5) and columnar aerosol optical depth (AOD). We have examined the chemical composition of PM (sub 2.5) at 12 globally dispersed, densely populated urban locations and a site at Mammoth Cave (US) National Park used as a background comparison. So far, each SPARTAN location has been active between the years 2013 and 2016 over periods of 2-26 months, with an average period of 12 months per site. These sites have collectively gathered over 10 years of quality aerosol data. The major PM (sub 2.5) constituents across all sites (relative contribution plus or minus Standard Deviation) are ammoniated sulfate (20 percent plus or minus 11 percent), crustal material (13.4 percent plus or minus 9.9 percent), equivalent black carbon (11.9 percent plus or minus 8.4 percent), ammonium nitrate (4.7 percent plus or minus 3.0 percent), sea salt (2.3 percent plus or minus 1.6 percent), trace element oxides (1.0 percent plus or minus 1.1 percent), water (7.2 percent plus or minus 3.3 percent) at 35 percent relative humidity, and residual matter (40 percent plus or minus 24 percent). Analysis of filter samples reveals that several PM (sub 2.5) chemical components varied by more than an order of magnitude between sites. Ammoniated sulfate ranges from 1.1 microns per cubic meter (Buenos Aires, Argentina) to 17 microns per cubic meter (Kanpur, India in the dry season). Ammonium nitrate ranged from 0.2 microns per cubic meter (Mammoth Cave, in summer) to 6.8 microns per cubic meter (Kanpur, dry season). Equivalent black carbon ranged from 0.7 microns per cubic meter (Mammoth Cave) to over 8 microns per cubic meter (Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kanpur, India). Comparison of SPARTAN vs. coincident measurements from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network at Mammoth Cave yielded a high degree of consistency for daily PM (sub 2.5) (r squared equals 0.76, slope equals 1.12), daily sulfate (r squared equals 0.86, slope equals 1.03), and mean fractions of all major PM (sub 2.5) components (within 6 percent). Major ions generally agree well with previous studies at the same urban locations (e.g. sulfate fractions agree within 4 percent for 8 out of 11 collocation comparisons). Enhanced anthropogenic dust fractions in large urban areas (e.g. Singapore, Kanpur, Hanoi, and Dhaka) are apparent from high Zn to Al ratios. The expected water contribution to aerosols is calculated via the hygroscopicity parameter kappa (sub v (volume)) for each filter. Mean aggregate values ranged from 0.15 (Ilorin) to 0.28 (Rehovot). The all-site parameter mean is 0.20 plus or minus 0.04. Chemical composition and water retention in each filter measurement allows inference of hourly PM (sub 2.5) at 35 percent relative humidity by merging with nephelometer measurements. These hourly PM (sub 2.5) estimates compare favourably with a beta attenuation monitor (MetOne) at the nearby US embassy in Beijing, with a coefficient of variation r squared equals 0.67 (number equals 3167), compared to r squared equals 0.62 when v (volume) was not considered. SPARTAN continues to provide an open-access database of PM (sub 2.5) compositional filter information and hourly mass collected from a global federation of instruments.
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48. Validation and Expected Error Estimation of Suomi-NNP VIIRS Aerosol Optical Thickness and Angstrom Exponent with AERONET
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Huang, Jingfeng, Kondragunta, Shobha, Laszlo, Istvan, Liu, Hongqing, Remer, Lorraine A, Zhang, Hai, Superczynski, Stephen, Ciren, Pubu, Holben, Brent N, and Petrenko, Maksym
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The new-generation polar-orbiting operational environmental sensor, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite, provides critical daily global aerosol observations. As older satellite sensors age out, the VIIRS aerosol product will become the primary observational source for global assessments of aerosol emission and transport, aerosol meteorological and climatic effects, air quality monitoring, and public health. To prove their validity and to assess their maturity level, the VIIRS aerosol products were compared to the spatiotemporally matched Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET)measurements. Over land, the VIIRS aerosol optical thickness (AOT) environmental data record (EDR) exhibits an overall global bias against AERONET of 0.0008 with root-mean-square error(RMSE) of the biases as 0.12. Over ocean, the mean bias of VIIRS AOT EDR is 0.02 with RMSE of the biases as 0.06.The mean bias of VIIRS Ocean Angstrom Exponent (AE) EDR is 0.12 with RMSE of the biases as 0.57. The matchups between each product and its AERONET counterpart allow estimates of expected error in each case. Increased uncertainty in the VIIRS AOT and AE products is linked to specific regions, seasons, surface characteristics, and aerosol types, suggesting opportunity for future modifications as understanding of algorithm assumptions improves. Based on the assessment, the VIIRS AOT EDR over land reached Validated maturity beginning 23 January 2013; the AOT EDR and AE EDR over ocean reached Validated maturity beginning 2 May 2012, excluding the processing error period 15 October to 27 November 2012. These findings demonstrate the integrity and usefulness of the VIIRS aerosol products that will transition from S-NPP to future polar-orbiting environmental satellites in the decades to come and become the standard global aerosol data set as the previous generations missions come to an end.
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49. Identification of Columnar Aerosol Types Under High Aerosol Optical Depth Conditions for a Single AERONET Site in Korea
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Choi, Yongjoo, Ghim, Young Sung, and Holben, Brent N
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Earth Resources And Remote Sensing - Abstract
Dominant aerosol types were classified using level 2 inversion products for the Anmyon Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) site in Korea for the period 19992007. The aerosol types were mineral dust (MD), MD mixed with carbon, and black carbonmixed coarse particles (BCCP) for coarsemode aerosols, black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), and secondary inorganic ions (SII) for fine mode aerosols, and mixed particles between. The classification was carried out using a clustering method based on parameters, including single scattering albedo (SSA), absorption Angstrom exponent (AAE), and fine mode volume fraction (FMVF). Among the seven aerosol types, MD was distinct, with the highest AAE and a very low FMVF and SII with the highest SSA and FMVF. BCCP was introduced to designate coarse particles mixed with BC, of which the AAE was lower than 1, despite a low FMVF. In addition to a large difference in AAE between BC andOC, the SSA ofOC was larger than that of BC, indicating the effects of the white smoke produced from the smoldering phase of biomass burning. Monthly variations of the aerosol types were well interpreted by meteorology and emissions and coincided with those in the previous studies. Applying our results to well-characterized global AERONET sites, we confirmed that the aerosol types at Anmyon were valid at other sites. However, the results also showed that the mean properties for aerosol types were influenced by the specific aerosols prevalent at the study sites.
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50. Applying Advanced Ground-Based Remote Sensing in the Southeast Asian Maritime Continent to Characterize Regional Proficiencies in Smoke Transport Modeling
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Campbell, James R, Ge, Cui, Wang, Jun, Welton, Ellsworth J, Bucholtz, Anthony, Hyer, Edward J, Reid, Elizabeth A, Chew, Boon Ning, Liew, Soo-Chin, Salinas, Santo V, Lolli, Simone, Kaku, Kathleen C, Lynch, Peng, Mahmud, Mastura, Mohamad, Maznorizan, and Holben, Brent N
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Environment Pollution ,Meteorology And Climatology - Abstract
This work describes some of the most extensive ground-based observations of the aerosol profile collected in Southeast Asia to date, highlighting the challenges in simulating these observations with a mesoscale perspective. An 84-h WRF Model coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem) mesoscale simulation of smoke particle transport at Kuching, Malaysia, in the southern Maritime Continent of Southeast Asia is evaluated relative to a unique collection of continuous ground-based lidar, sun photometer, and 4-h radiosonde profiling. The period was marked by relatively dry conditions, allowing smoke layers transported to the site unperturbed by wet deposition to be common regionally. The model depiction is reasonable overall. Core thermodynamics, including landsea-breeze structure, are well resolved. Total model smoke extinction and, by proxy, mass concentration are low relative to observation. Smoke emissions source products are likely low because of undersampling of fires in infrared sun-synchronous satellite products, which is exacerbated regionally by endemic low-level cloud cover. Differences are identified between the model mass profile and the lidar profile, particularly during periods of afternoon convective mixing. A static smoke mass injection height parameterized for this study potentially influences this result. The model does not resolve the convective mixing of aerosol particles into the lower free troposphere or the enhancement of near-surface extinction from nighttime cooling and hygroscopic effects.
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