2017 News & Events

Highlights of CSD Science at AGU

4 December 2017

Monday December 11th

Ru-Shan Gao presents "Overview of the aerosol measurements in the UTLS during the POSIDON campaign" at 10:50, as part of the AGU session Observations and Modeling of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, La Nouvelle AB.

Drew Rollins discusses "Sources of enhanced SO₂ in the tropical Western Pacific UT/LS" at 11:05, as part of the AGU session Observations and Modeling of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, La Nouvelle AB.

Tom Ryerson discusses "Systematics of Ozone Distributions in the Remote Pacific and Atlantic Troposphere from the NASA ATom Mission" at 11:05, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity Constraints: Laboratory Investigations, Field and Remote Sensing Observations, and Modeling Studies, 392.

Erin McDuffie was invited to present "When the Sun's Away, N₂O₅ Comes Out to Play: An Updated Analysis of Ambient N₂O₅ Heterogeneous Chemistry" at 14:19, as part of the AGU session Student Engagement to Enhance Development, 252-254.

Eric Ray discusses "What can surface measurements of long-lived trace gases tell us about interannual variability in UTLS transport?" at 14:55, as part of the AGU session Observations and Modeling of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, La Nouvelle AB.

Chelsea Thompson presents "Global-scale Airborne Observations of Tropospheric Reactive Nitrogen Species from the NASA Atmospheric Tomography Mission" at 16:15, as part of the AGU session Gas-Phase and Aerosol Processes and Characteristics in the Remote Troposphere, 398-399.

Agnieszka Kupc presents "ATom observations of new particle formation in the tropical upper troposphere. The role of convection and nucleation mechanisms" at 17:15, as part of the AGU session Gas-Phase and Aerosol Processes and Characteristics in the Remote Troposphere, 398-399.

Tuesday December 12th

Franziska Glassmeier presents "A network approach to the geometric structure of shallow cloud fields" at 09:05, as part of the AGU session Processes of (Sub) Cloud Scales: Modeling, Observation, and Parameterization for Larger-Scale Models, 398-399.

Karl Froyd presents "Mineral Dust Aerosol Measurements throughout the Global Free Troposphere" at 09:15, as part of the AGU session Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small Scale Insights to Large Scale Understanding, 393-394.

Owen Cooper was invited to present "Tropospheric ozone observations across Asia: A synthesis of recent findings and implications for domestic and downwind regions" at 11:05, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases, and Emissions in Asia and Its Interactions with the World, 395-396.

David Fahey is the primary convener for the AGU session Climate Science Special Report: An Assessment of the Science Focusing on the United States 13:40 - 15:40, E2.

Tak Yamaguchi presents "New pathway of stratocumulus to cumulus transition via aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction " at 15:30, as part of the AGU session Processes of (Sub) Cloud Scales: Modeling, Observation, and Parameterization for Larger-Scale Models III , 398-399.

Aditya Choukulkar discusses "Quantifying measurement uncertainty and spatial variability in the context of model evaluation" at 16:45, as part of the AGU session Renewable Energy: Wind, 265-266.

Wednesday December 13th

Matthew Coggon discusses "Primary emissions and chemical oxidation of volatile organic compounds emitted from laboratory biomass burning sources during the 2016 FIREX FireLab campaign: measurements from a H3O+ chemical ionization mass spectrometer" at 13:55, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales Posters, 395-396.

Jessica Gilman discusses "Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from biomass burning: GC-MS analysis of primary combustion emissions of fuels common to North America" at 14:10, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Jim Roberts presents "Measurement of Total Reactive Nitrogen (Nr) during the FIREX 2016 Lab Study" at 14:40, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Abigail Koss discusses "Unraveling the chemical complexity of biomass burning VOC emissions via H₃O⁺ ToF-CIMS (PTR-ToF): emissions characterization" at 14:55, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Rebecca Washenfelder discusses "Chemical Properties of Brown Carbon Aerosol Generated at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory" at 15:10, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Abigail Koss discusses "Complex and surprising VOC chemistry in oil and gas producing regions: H₃O⁺ CIMS results from the SONGNEX 2015 aircraft mission" at 16:00, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Impacts of Emissions from the Unconventional Oil and Gas Sector, 393-394.

2012 AGU Fellow Dan Murphy was invited to present "What matters for the radiative properties of biomass burning smoke?" at 16:00, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Gabriela Adler discusses "Rethinking the distinction between black and brown carbon" at 16:15, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Chelsea Stockwell presents "Field Measurements of Trace Gases and Aerosols Emitted by Undersampled Combustion Sources Including Wood and Dung Cooking Fires, Garbage and Crop Residue Burning, and Indonesian Peat Fires" at 17:00, as part of the AGU session Fires Impact on Air Quality and Climate: Measurements and Predictions Across All Scales, 395-396.

Thursday December 14th

Brian McDonald discusses "Evaluation of a Fuel-Based Oil and Gas Inventory of Nitrogen Oxides with Top-Down Emissions " at 11:35, as part of the AGU session Leveraging Inventories, Observations, and Models to Improve the Scientific Basis of Emissions, 393-394.

Friday December 15th

Nicholas Davis discusses "Decomposing the Eddy-Mean Flow Response of the Hadley Circulation to Greenhouse Gas Forcings" at 09:15, as part of the AGU session The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Present and Future Climates: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons, La Nouvelle AB.

Alessandro Franchin presents "High pollution events in the Great Salt Lake Basin and its adjacent valleys. Insights on mechanisms and spatial distribution of the formation of secondary aerosol." at 09:45, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution in Urban Airsheds During Winter, 393-394.

Steve Brown presents "Aircraft measurements to characterize polluted winter boundary layers: Overview of twin otter flights during the Utah Winter Fine Particulate Matter Study" at 10:35, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution in Urban Airsheds During Winter, 393-394.

Erin McDuffie discusses "Observational Insights into N₂O₅ Heterogeneous Chemistry: Influencing Factors and Contribution to Wintertime Air Pollution" at 11:05, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution in Urban Airsheds During Winter, 393-394.

Dorothy Fibiger discusses "Mid-latitude Ozone Depletion Events Caused by Halogens from the Great Salt Lake in Utah" at 11:50, as part of the AGU session The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Present and Future Climates: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons, 393-394.

Caroline Womack presents "Aircraft NOx and O3 measurements during wintertime temperature inversions in Salt Lake City, Utah" at 13:55, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution in Urban Airsheds During Winter, 393-394.

Stu McKeen presents "Modeling of meteorology, chemistry and aerosol for the 2017 Utah Winter Fine Particle Study" at 15:10, as part of the AGU session Air Pollution in Urban Airsheds During Winter, 393-394.

Owen Cooper presents "The Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR): A community-wide effort to quantify tropospheric ozone in a rapidly changing world" at 16:15, as part of the AGU session Quantifying Tropospheric Ozones Present-Day Distribution and Trends from the Perspective of Human Health, Climate, and Ecosystem Productivity, 393-394.