2014 News & Events

Highlights of CSD Science at AGU

8 December 2014

Our scientists share new research at next week's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. CSD submitted 46 total presentations, half of which are oral. Twenty three posters will be presented in addition to the oral presentations and invited talks outlined below. Search the AGU 2014 Fall Meeting Scientific Program for abstracts and session information. Download the CSD Oral and Poster Presentations quick reference for AGU.

Monday December 15th

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Gas flares from a stack in Utah's Uintah Basin. More on wintertime ozone pollution in Utah oil and gas fields. Photo: Scott Sandberg, NOAA

Jessica Gilman presents "Primary emissions and secondary formation of volatile organic compounds from natural gas production in five major U.S. shale plays" at 9:00am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I [virtual option], 3010 Moscone West.

Ravan Ahmadov discusses "Understanding High Wintertime Ozone Events over an Oil and Natural Gas Production Region from Air Quality Model Perspective" at 10:20am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I [virtual option], 3010 Moscone West.

Steve Brown presents "Winter Photochemistry Underlying High Ozone in an Oil and Gas Producing Region" at 10:35am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II [virtual option], 3010 Moscone West.

Abigail Koss discusses "Derived Emission Rates and Photochemical Production Rates of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Associated with Oil and Natural Gas Operations in the Uintah Basin, UT During a Wintertime Ozone Formation Event" at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II [virtual option], 3010 Moscone West.

Christoph Senff was invited to discuss "Ozone Transport and Mixing Processes in the Boundary Layer Observed with Lidar during Discover-AQ" at 2:10pm, as part of the AGU session Sources of Planetary Boundary Layer and Lower Free Troposphere Ozone and Variability: From Urban to Remote Regions of the United States III, 3010 Moscone West.

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TOPAZ lidar scanner installed atop Angel Peak, NV during the 2013 Las Vegas Ozone Study. More on how the air from the stratosphere makes it tough for Las Vegas to meet surface ozone pollution standards. Photo: A. Langford, NOAA

Andy Langford was invited to present "Stratospheric contribution to surface ozone in the desert Southwest during the 2013 Las Vegas Ozone Study" at 4:15pm, as part of the AGU session Sources of Planetary Boundary Layer and Lower Free Troposphere Ozone and Variability: From Urban to Remote Regions of the United States IV, 3001 Moscone West.

Tuesday December 16th

Jin Liao was invited to present "High Levels of Molecular Chlorine found in the Arctic Atmosphere" at 10:35am, as part of the AGU session Physical and Chemical Air-Snow-Ice Interactions: From the Micro to the Global Scale I, 3007 Moscone West.

Steve Brown introduces the AGU session Air Quality in Asia III at 10:20am, 3004 Moscone West:

Kyung-Eun Min presents "Fast in-situ measurements of glyoxal (CHOCHO) and nitrous acid (HONO) in northern Chinese plane during CAREBEIJING - NCP2014" at 10:35am.

Jim Roberts was invited to present "An Overview of the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study Intensives: 2012, 2013, and 2014" at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session Physical and Chemical Air-Snow-Ice Interactions: From the Micro to the Global Scale I, 3007 Moscone West.

Chuck Brock was invited to present "Relating Aerosol Mass and Optical Depth in the Summertime Continental Boundary Layer" at 4:45pm, as part of the AGU session Assessing Aerosol Vertical Distribution Impacts on Air Quality and Radiative Forcing: Insight from In Situ Measurements, Remote Sensing, and Modeling I, 3008 Moscone West.

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CSD's Jin Liao checks instrumentation in Barrow during a research trip to measure molecular chlorine in the atmosphere. More on high levels of molecular chlorine found in Arctic atmosphere. Photo: G. Huey, GA Tech

Wednesday December 17th

2013 AGU Fellow Dan Murphy was invited to discuss the "Context of aerosol chemistry over the Southeast United States" at 8:15am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Gas-Phase and Aerosol Chemistry over the Southeastern United States I, 3004 Moscone West.

Anne Perring discusses "Airborne Observations of regional variations in fluorescent aerosol across the US" at 8:30am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Sciences General Contributions I, 3012 Moscone West.

Elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union earlier this year, David Parrish was invited to dicsuss "How Complete Is Our Knowledge of Tropospheric Ozone? (at Least as it is Currently Incorporated into Chemistry-Climate Models)" at 10:20am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Lectures II, 3006 Moscone West.

Rebecca Washenfelder presents "Biomass Burning Dominates Brown Carbon Absorption in the Rural Southeastern U.S." at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Gas-Phase and Aerosol Chemistry over the Southeastern United States II, 3004 Moscone West.

Carsten Warneke discusses "Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Vegetation and Paper Mills in the Southeast United States during the SENEX (Southeast Nexus) Campaign in 2013" at 11:05am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Gas-Phase and Aerosol Chemistry over the Southeastern United States II, 3004 Moscone West.

Ann Middlebrook presents "An examination of Carbon Monoxide and Organic Aerosol Mass Sources in the Southeastern United States during the SENEX Project" at 2:40pm, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Gas-Phase and Aerosol Chemistry over the Southeastern United States III, 3004 Moscone West.

Thursday December 18th

Andrew Rollins presents "Relative Humidity Distribution in the Tropical Tropopause Layer Measured During NASA ATTREX" at 10:35am, as part of the AGU session Processes Controlling Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere Composition and Structure V, 3006 Moscone West.

Karen Rosenlof discusses "Variability and trends in UTLS temperatures and water vapor" at 11:20am, as part of the AGU session Processes Controlling Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere Composition and Structure V, 3006 Moscone West.

Greg Frost introduces the AGU session Improving Emissions Through Observations VI at 8:00am, 3010 Moscone West:

Brian McDonald and Si-Wan Kim present "Reconciling Long-Term Trends in Air Quality with Bottom-up Emission Inventories for Los Angeles" at 1:40pm.

Joost deGouw presents "Airborne Measurements of the Atmospheric Emissions from a Fuel Ethanol Refinery" at 1:55pm.

Friday December 19th

Mike Hardesty presents "One Year of Doppler Lidar Observations Characterizing Boundary Layer Wind, Turbulence, and Aerosol Structure During the Indianapolis Flux Experiment" at 8:30am, as part of the AGU session Quantifying Emissions from Urban and Other Complex Areas I, 3010 Moscone West.

Karl Froyd discusses "Biomass Burning as a Source of Mineral Dust and Giant Aerosol to the Free Troposphere" at 11:05am, as part of the AGU session Biomass Burning Impacts on Composition, Clouds, and Climate: SEAC4RS, BBOP, SAMBBA, BORTAS, FLAME-4, and Other Recent Studies II, 2022-2024 Moscone West.