[MIRA] AGU sessions of interest (now there are 5)

Thu Jul 14 14:21:06 PDT 2022

Friends of MIRA,

We now have 5 sessions that may be of interest to those on this email distribution (the first one is my favorite). Abstract deadline is Aug 3.

Send me your session descriptions and I will be happy to add them to this list. Please feel free to forward to colleagues so that they can join MIRA at https://espo.nasa.gov/lists/listinfo/mira. Next update is Friday, July 22.
Thanks,
Greg Schuster

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NASA Langley Research Center
Mail Stop 420
Hampton, VA 23681

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A073 - Models, In situ, and Remote sensing of Aerosols

Greg Schuster, Oleg Dubovik, Meloe Kacenelenbogen, and Carlo Perez Garcia-Pando

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There is a natural partitioning of scientific interest amongst three specialties of aerosol research: modeling, in situ measurements, and remote sensing. The community sees enhanced measurement capabilities when these groups interact, and this strengthens the overall scientific impact on climate and air quality. The MIRA international working group is a forum for identifying collaborations and improving discussions amongst specialties and across regional boundaries, with the goal of creating new projects and enhancing existing projects. MIRA emphasizes areas of study where the aerosol specialties overlap, and ideal MIRA projects seek additional data from others (observed and modeled). Indeed, many of us are already working across multiple aerosol disciplines, and our work could benefit from additional access to different datasets and areas of expertise. We seek presentations that showcase interdisciplinary work and scientists who are interested in the MIRA concept. More information about MIRA can be found at https://science.larc.nasa.gov/mira-wg/.

A069 - Light-Absorbing Carbon Aerosol from Observations and Models

Chao Liu, Yuan Wang, Joshua Peter Schwarz, Dantong Liu

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Light-absorbing carbon aerosols (LACs) such as black or brown carbon are important climate warming agents in the earth system. LAC impacts manifest in the Earth’s atmosphere, on land, and in hydrologic systems. For example, either airborne or snow-deposited LAC absorbs solar energy and alters the Earth’s radiative budget. However, the LAC radiative effect in climate models varies by more than a factor of two. Uncertainties arise in large part from the physical and chemical transformations of LAC in the atmosphere during its lifecycle affecting the corresponding treatment in models. Making scientific progress on LAC is critical for winning the battle against the global warming. This session invites submissions on: characterization of LAC emissions, transformations, and sinks; measurements on LAC chemical, microphysical, and optical properties; numerical simulations of LAC and its properties at various scales; assessment of LAC radiative forcing and climate impacts.

A050. Dust in a Changing Climate: from Small‐Scale Insights to Large‐Scale Understanding

Jasper F Kok, Amato T Evan, Bing Pu, Cassandra Gaston

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Interactions of the dust cycle with components of the changing Earth system produce a wide range of complex effects on, for instance, atmospheric composition, the hydrological cycle, climate, and ecosystems. To better understand and assess these effects, advances are needed in field and laboratory measurements, remote sensing techniques, and models of dust properties. This session invites studies reporting such advances and results relevant to the NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, EMIT, are also encouraged. This session also invites studies addressing the dust cycle and its impact on the Earth system. This includes studies of dust source regions, high latitude dust, dust interactions with clouds, radiation, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, the cryosphere, and the biosphere, observational and modeling insights into climate feedbacks and the variability of dust across spatiotemporal scales, dust impacts on air quality, and modeling studies of the dust cycle and its interactions with other Earth system cycles.

A098 - What are the Challenges in Monitoring, Forecasting, and Managing Air Quality in the Global South ?

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Deteriorating air quality, its immediate health impacts, and short-to-long term regional and global climate impacts have gained much attention in recent decades. Addressing these pollution impacts requires holistic research as well as air quality management and mitigation approaches that take into account the diversity of pollution sources as well as socio-economic contexts found across the world. This session focuses on the low, middle income, and developing countries. This session invites both the research, application, and air quality management community to collectively:

  *   share research and application of observations (surface, satellite, air-borne) and modeling approaches to study air quality and its impacts.
  *   share work that identifies the gaps from data to equity, that can potentially bridge research and policy areas for improved air quality management
  *   share innovative approaches on use of data from the next generation of technology (such as satellites, low-cost sensors, etc) for air quality monitoring and forecasting

A007- Advances of Atmospheric Remote Sensing Inversion

Oleg Dubovik, Feng Xu

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Radiation measurements from satellites, aircraft and the ground have been successfully employed for characterizing radiative properties of aerosols, clouds, atmospheric gases, land, and ocean. One of the challenges is the development of a reliable procedure for inversion of the observations. This session is dedicated to unite works emphasizing the various aspects of numerical inversion that improve quantitatively and/or qualitatively the retrieved atmospheric products. The contributions are expected to address such important attributes of inversion as optimum accounting for errors in the data, inverting multi-source data, utilizing a priori information, inverse modeling and data assimilation, retrieval error estimations, and retrieval acceleration. Development of forward radiative transfer models to improve retrieval is also welcome. We encourage explorations of new retrieval concept and improved products such as aerosol types and profiles, surface particulate matter, trace gas, clouds, and land and ocean properties for existing and next generation of satellite missions and ground-based networks.

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