HR: 1330h
AN: A22A-1048    [PDF]
TI: Aerosol sources, absorption, and intercontinental transport: Synergies among models, remote sensing, and atmospheric measurements
AU: * Chin, M
EM: chin@rondo.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Ginoux, P
EM: pag@gfdl.noaa.gov
AF: NOAA GFDL, Forrestal Campus, Princeton, NJ 08542
AU: Dubovik, O
EM: dubovik@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: UMBC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Holben, B
EM: brent@spamer.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Kaufman, Y
EM: kaufman@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Chu, A
EM: achu@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: SSAI, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Anderson, T
EM: tadand@atmos.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195
AU: Quinn, P
EM: quinn@pmel.noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Pmel, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA 98115
AB: Aerosol climate forcing is one of the largest uncertainties in assessing the anthropogenic impact on the global climate system. This uncertainty arises from the poorly quantified aerosol sources, especially black carbon emissions, our limited knowledge of aerosol mixing state and optical properties, and the consequences of intercontinental transport of aerosols and their precursors. Here we use a global model GOCART to simulate atmospheric aerosols, including sulfate, black carbon, organic carbon, dust, and sea salt, from anthropogenic, biomass burning, and natural sources. We compare the model calculated aerosol extinction and absorption with those quantities from the ground-based sun photometer measurements from AERONET at several different wavelengths and the field observations from ACE-Asia, and model calculated total aerosol optical depth and fine mode fractions with the MODIS satellite retrieval. We will also estimate the intercontinental transport of pollution and dust aerosols from their source regions to other areas in different seasons.
DE: 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801)
DE: 0322 Constituent sources and sinks
DE: 0345 Pollution--urban and regional (0305)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting