2016 News & Events

Highlights of CSD Science at AGU

11 December 2016

Our scientists share new research at this week's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. CSD submitted 47 total presentations, half of which are oral, to the AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section. Twenty four posters will be presented in addition to the oral presentations and invited talks, all outlined below. Search the AGU 2016 Fall Meeting Scientific Program for abstracts and session information. Download the CSD Oral and Poster Presentations quick reference for AGU.

Monday December 12th

Kara Lamb discusses "HD-SP2 Measurements of Black Carbon Containing Aerosols in South Korea during KORUS-AQ" at 9:15am, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases, and Emissions in East Asia and Its Interactions with the World I, 3010 Moscone West.

Ru-Shan Gao was invited to present "Overview of the NASA Pacific Oxidants, Sulfur, Ice, Dehydration, and cONvection (POSIDON) Experiment" at 10:20am, as part of the AGU session Processes and Linkages in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Observations and Models II, 3012 Moscone West.

Pengfei Yu presents "Asian Summer Monsoon Pollutes the Northern Hemispheric Stratosphere" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Processes and Linkages in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Observations and Models II, 3012 Moscone West.

Tak Yamaguchi discusses "Framework for Improvement by Vertical Enhancement: A simple approach to improve low and high clouds in large-scale models" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Advances in High Resolution Climate Modeling II, 3008 Moscone West.

Drew Rollins discusses "In-Situ Observations Define the Role of Sulfur Dioxide in Stratospheric Aerosol Formation" at 12:05pm, as part of the AGU session Processes and Linkages in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Observations and Models II, 3012 Moscone West.

Dave Parrish discusses "Observationally based estimates of U.S. background ozone contributions to NAAQS exceedances in California urban areas" at 3:10pm, as part of the AGU session Emissions and Tropospheric Photochemistry on the Urban Scale I, 3010 Moscone West.

Tuesday December 13th

Franziska Glassmeier presents "A Model-Based Investigation of Charge-Generation According to the Relative Diffusional Growth Rate Theory" at 9:15am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric and Space Electricity General Contributions III, 3001 Moscone West.

Jeff Peischl presents "Methane and carbon dioxide emissions from selected U.S. coal production regions and coal-fired power plants" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Emissions through Atmospheric Observations I, 3008 Moscone West.

Scott Eilerman discusses "Using mobile laboratory and aircraft measurements to characterize feedlot emissions and their contribution to atmospheric methane over the Denver-Julesburg Basin" at 2:10pm, as part of the AGU session Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Emissions through Atmospheric Observations II, 3008 Moscone West.

Bin Yuan 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 2:25pm, as part of the AGU session Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Emissions through Atmospheric Observations II, 3014 Moscone West.

Brian McDonald was invited to present "Quantifying Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Solvents and their Impacts on Urban Air Quality" at 4:30pm, as part of the AGU session Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Emissions through Atmospheric Observations III, 3008 Moscone West.

Wednesday December 14th

Dimitris Papanastasiou discusses "The atmospheric degradation of methyl isocyanate (CH3NCO), a toxic substance" at 9:45am, as part of the AGU session Laboratory Studies in Atmospheric Sciences I, 3008 Moscone West.

Bob Portmann presents "The Earth's Energy Budget Across CMIP5 Model" at 5:45pm, as part of the AGU session Earth's Energy Imbalance and Energy Flows through the Climate System II, 3001 Moscone West.

NOAA booth presentation
Ru-Shan Gao presents "New detectors for unmanned aircraft systems" at the NOAA booth in the Exhibit Hall, Moscone North

Thursday December 15th

2012 AGU Fellow Dan Murphy presents "A Large Radiative Forcing by Stratospheric Sulfate and Organic Aerosol" at 8:35am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Trace Species: Observations and Analyses of the Effects of Changing Atmospheric Composition on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate I, 3008 Moscone West.

Yuyan Cui discusses "Top-down estimates of methane and nitrogen oxide emissions from shale gas production regions using aircraft measurements and a mesoscale Bayesian inversion system together with a flux ratio inversion technique" at 10:35am, as part of the AGU session Data Assimilation and Inverse Modeling of the Atmospheric Composition II, 3004 Moscone West.

Joshua Schwarz presents "FIREX: Aerosol Science Priorities for the 2018 WP-3D Campaign" at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society II, 3001 Moscone West.

Amy Butler discusses "Diagnosing ozone recovery using the O3-N2O relationship" at 10:55am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Trace Species: Observations and Analyses of the Effects of Changing Atmospheric Composition on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate II, 3008 Moscone West.

Erin McDuffie discusses "The Wintertime Fate of N2O5: Observations and Box Model Analysis for the 2015 WINTER Aircraft Campaign" at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity Constraints: Laboratory Investigations, Field and Remote Sensing Observations, and Modeling Studies III, 3012 Moscone West. Outstanding Student Presentation Award

2013 AGU Fellow Graham Feingold was invited to present "Narrowing the Gap in Quantification of Aerosol-Cloud Radiative Effects" at 4:15pm, as part of the AGU session Reducing Uncertainty in Aerosol Effects on Climate II, 3010 Moscone West.

Barbara Ervens discusses "Parameterizations of aqSOA formation: Weaknesses and steps to improvements" at 4:45pm, as part of the AGU session Organic Carbon in the Atmosphere: Reactivity, Budgets, and Lifecycle III, 3006 Moscone West.

Friday December 16th

2013 AGU Fellow Graham Feingold was invited to present "Aerosol and cloud microphysics in cloud systems" at 8am, as part of the AGU session Role of Cloud Physics in Understanding Links between Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation I, 3006 Moscone West.

Joseph Katich presents "First Comparison of Remote Vertical Profiles of Refractory Black Carbon between the Atlantic and Pacific Basins on Global Scales" at 8:15am, as part of the AGU session Multisensor, Model, and Measurement Synergy: Global Aerosol Characterization I, 3004 Moscone West.

Carolin Klinger discusses "Effects of 1D and 3D Thermal Radiation on Cloud Dynamics and Microphysics" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Role of Cloud Physics in Understanding Links between Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation II, 3006 Moscone West.