2015 News & Events

Highlights of CSD Science at AGU

9 December 2015

Our scientists share new research at next week's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. CSD submitted 60 total presentations, half of which are oral. Thirty one posters will be presented in addition to the oral presentations and invited talks, all outlined below. Search the AGU 2015 Fall Meeting Scientific Program for abstracts and session information. Download the CSD Oral and Poster Presentations quick reference for AGU (includes Town Hall Meeting presentations of interest).

Monday December 14th

2002 AGU Fellow David Fahey discusses "The role of aviation in climate change" at 8:00am, as part of the AGU session Quantifying Aviation Impacts on Air Quality and Climate I, 3001 Moscone West.

Brian McDonald discusses "Modeling Ozone in the Eastern United States Using a Fuel-Based Mobile Source Emissions Inventory" at 9:15am, as part of the AGU session Air Quality Research: From Emissions to Impact I, 3010 Moscone West.

Sarah Monks discusses "Dependence of Simulated Tropospheric Ozone Trends on Uncertainties in U.S. Mobile Fleet Emissions" at 9:30am, as part of the AGU session Air Quality Research: From Emissions to Impact I, 3010 Moscone West.

Ryan Neely presents "Dual-Polarised Doppler X-band Radar Observations of Mixed Phased Clouds from the UK's Ice in Clouds Experiment-Dust (ICE-D)" at 11:35am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Ice Formation Processes and Impacts II, 3010 Moscone West.

Andy Neuman discusses "Quantifying atmospheric nitrogen outflow from the Front Range of Colorado" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Air Quality Research: From Emissions to Impact II, 3010 Moscone West.

Joost deGouw was invited to present "Anthropogenic and Biogenic Emissions, and their Contributions to Summertime Haze in the Southeast U.S.: Results from the NOAA SENEX Study in 2013" at 2:10pm, as part of the AGU session Air Quality Research: From Emissions to Impact III, 3010 Moscone West. Joost was also invited to present "Enhanced Removal of Biogenic Hydrocarbons in Power Plant Plumes Constrains the Dependence of Atmospheric Hydroxyl Concentrations on Nitrogen Oxides" at 3:25pm as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity Constraints: Laboratory Investigations, Field and Remote Sensing Observations, and Modeling Studies I, 3004 Moscone West.

Claire Granier presents "Quantification of surface emissions: An historical perspective from GEIA" at 4:00pm, as part of the AGU session Air Quality Research: From Emissions to Impact IV, 3010 Moscone West.

1997 AGU Fellow Ravi discusses "Nitrous Oxide: A Greenhouse Gas That is Also an Ozone Layer Depleting Gas" at 4:00pm, as part of the AGU session Closing the Global Nitrous Oxide Budget: Magnitude, Spatiotemporal Patterns, and Responses II, 2002 Moscone West.

Tuesday December 15th

Ravan Ahmadov presents "Contribution of Oil and Natural Gas Emissions on Summertime Air Quality over the Continental US from an Air Quality Modeling Perspective" at 2:48pm, as part of the AGU session The Impacts of Energy Production and Use on Air Quality and Climate II, 3014 Moscone West.

Carsten Warneke discusses "Airborne Trace Gas and Aerosol Measurements in Several Shale Gas Basins during the SONGNEX (Shale Oil and Natural Gas Nexus) Campaign 2015" at 4:00pm, as part of the AGU session The Impacts of Energy Production and Use on Air Quality and Climate III, 3014 Moscone West.

Jeff Peischl was invited to present "A Quantification of Methane Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Extraction Regions in the Central/Western U.S. and a Comparison to Previous Studies" at 4:12pm, as part of the AGU session The Impacts of Energy Production and Use on Air Quality and Climate III, 3014 Moscone West.

Jessica Gilman discusses "Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from oil and natural gas activities: compositional comparison of 13 major shale basins via NOAA airborne measurements" at 4:27pm, as part of the AGU session The Impacts of Energy Production and Use on Air Quality and Climate III, 3014 Moscone West.

Chelsea Thompson discusses "Partitioning of NOy and Implications for Ozone Formation in Western US Shale Plays" at 4:40pm, as part of the AGU session The Impacts of Energy Production and Use on Air Quality and Climate III, 3014 Moscone West.

Megan Melamed leads the AGU Town Hall Meeting "Celebrating the International Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC) as part of the IGBP Landmark Synthesis Event" at 6:15pm, 2011 Moscone West. Presenters include Greg Frost and Claire Granier.

Wednesday December 16th

Karen Rosenlof discusses "Stratospheric Water Vapor, Tropical Tropopause Temperatures and Tropical Upwelling" at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session Large-Scale Atmospheric Transport and Mixing: Observations, Modeling, and Theory II, 3010 Moscone West.

Rebecca Washenfelder presents "Applications of broadband cavity enhanced spectroscopy for measurements of trace gases and aerosols" at 11:20am, as part of the AGU session Advances in Instrumentation and Methods for Atmospheric Chemistry II, 3004 Moscone West.

Eric Ray discusses "Better Understanding Transport Related Differences Between CCMs and Trace Gas Measurements With an Idealized Stratospheric Model" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Large-Scale Atmospheric Transport and Mixing: Observations, Modeling, and Theory II, 3010 Moscone West.

Abigail Koss discusses the "Development of a High-Resolution H3O+ Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer for Gas-phase Hydrocarbons and its Application During the 2015 SONGNEX Aircraft Campaign" at 11:25am, as part of the AGU session Advances in Instrumentation and Methods for Atmospheric Chemistry II, 3004 Moscone West.

Christoph Senff discusses "Lidar-derived Correlations Between Lower-tropospheric Column and Surface Ozone: Implications for Satellite Observations" at 12:05pm, as part of the AGU session Emergence of a Global Observing System for Air Quality: Integrated Approaches Using Observations and Models of Tropospheric Composition and Pollution to Inform Air Quality Analyses and Applications IV, 3009 Moscone West.

Jim Roberts leads the AGU Town Hall Meeting "The Future of Laboratory Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry" at 12:30pm, 2010 Moscone West. Presenters include Jim Burkholder.

2012 AGU Fellow Dan Murphy presents "Miniature instruments for aerosol extinction at ambient conditions" at 3:25pm, as part of the AGU session Advances in Instrumentation and Methods for Atmospheric Chemistry III, 3004 Moscone West.

Patrick Veres presents "Nitrous acid (HONO) observations during the Uintah Basin Wintertime Ozone Studies (UBWOS) and the Wintertime Investigation of Transport, Emission, and Reactivity (WINTER) study: sources, measurements interferences, and implications beyond" at 5:15pm, as part of the AGU session Wintertime Atmospheric Chemistry: Emissions, Dispersion, Aerosols, Halogens, and Unusual Oxidants I, 3010 Moscone West.

Ru-Shan Gao was invited to present "An Airborne Mission to Study Background Sulfur and Prepare for a Rapid Response to a Large Volcanic Eruption" at 5:31pm, as part of the AGU session Are We Ready to Observe the Next Large Volcanic Eruption?, 102 Moscone South.

Thursday December 17th

Chuck Brock presents "Optical Extinction and Aerosol Hygroscopicity in the Southeastern United States" at 9:00am, as part of the AGU session Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Characterization I, 3002 Moscone West.

Jan Kazil discusses "Stratocumulus updrafts as drivers of boundary layer growth and entrainment" at 9:00am, as part of the AGU session Marine Boundary Layer Clouds and Aerosols: Observations and Process Modeling II, 3014 Moscone West.

Tak Yamaguchi discusses "Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transition Capped by a Light-Absorbing Smoke Layer" at 9:15am, as part of the AGU session Marine Boundary Layer Clouds and Aerosols: Observations and Process Modeling II , 3014 Moscone West.

Anne Perring discusses "Hygroscopicity of Black-Carbon-Containing Aerosol in Wildfire Plumes" at 11:20am, as part of the AGU session Black- and Brown-Carbon Light-Absorbing Aerosols: Attribution, Quantification, and Impact III, 3004 Moscone West.

Sean Davis discusses "How well can interannual to decadal-scale variability in stratospheric ozone and water vapor be quantified using limb-based satellite measurements?" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Methodologies and Resulting Uncertainties in Long-Term Records of Ozone and Other Atmospheric Essential Climate Variables Constructed from Multiple Data Sources I, 3012 Moscone West.

Steve Brown leads the AGU Town Hall Meeting "Nitrate Radicals and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds" at 4:45pm, 2011 Moscone West.

Jim Roberts presents "Experiments on the Multiphase Chemistry of Isocyanic Acid, HNCO" at 5:30pm, as part of the AGU session Wildfire in a Changing World: Interactions with Climate and Ecosystems I, 3002 Moscone West.

Friday December 18th

2013 AGU Fellow Graham Feingold discusses the "Detection of Aerosol Radiative Forcing Associated with Aerosol-Cloud Interactions" at 4:45pm, as part of the AGU session Clouds, Precipitation, and Climate Change II, 3008 Moscone West.