HR: 1340h
AN: A33A-0836    [Abstracts]
TI: A-Train Observations of Pyrocumulonimbus Events
AU: Wall, K
EM: kwall@umbc.edu
AF: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Physics, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: Salemi, A
EM: antsale1@umbc.edu
AF: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Physics, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: * McMillan, W W
EM: mcmillan@umbc.edu
AF: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Physics, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: * McMillan, W W
EM: mcmillan@umbc.edu
AF: Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: Evans, K
EM: evans@umbc.edu
AF: Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: Fromm, M
EM: mike.fromm@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, Washington, DC 20375, United States
AU: Hoff, R
EM: hoff@umbc.edu
AF: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Physics, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: Hoff, R
EM: hoff@umbc.edu
AF: Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AU: Torres, O
EM: torres@hearts.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-0001, United States
AB: Until relatively recently, it was believed that only volcanic eruptions released enough energy to directly inject aerosols from the troposphere to the stratosphere. Now, numerous satellite and ground-based observations reveal troposphere to stratosphere exchange by convection due to large fires, pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb). NASA's A-Train satellite suite is uniquely equipped to study pyroCb with instruments including the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiaometer (MODIS) on Agua, the CALIPSO lidar, and the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) and Ozone Monitoring Instrument on Aura. We present integrated analyses of several recent pyroCb events to illustrate the A-Train's capabilities to monitor the occurrence of pyroCb's, track their downwind motions in three dimensions, and measure their chemical and particulate impacts.
DE: 0322 Constituent sources and sinks
DE: 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry
DE: 0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting