Biogenic Aerosols - Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC)
Authors
Ewan James O'Connor — University of Reading
Tuukka Taneli Petaja — University of Helsinki
Dmitri N Moisseev — University of Helsinki
Annakaisa Marjaana von Lerber — Finnish Meteorological Institute
Antti Manninen — University of Helsinki, Finland
Category
General Topics – Aerosol
Description
During “Biogenic Aerosols - Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC)”, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program deployed the 2nd ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to Hyytiälä, Finland, for an 8-month intensive measurement campaign from February to September 2014. Hyytiälä hosts the Station for Measuring Ecosystem – Atmosphere Relations II (SMEAR II). The primary research goal of BAECC is to understand how biogenic aerosols affect cloud microphysical properties. The unique aspect of the campaign is a combination of comprehensive characterization of aerosol, cloud and precipitation.
In this poster the results obtained during BAECC and associated IOPs are presented. It gives an overview of results from ground-based and aircraft IOP of aerosol, AMF2 and SMEAR 2 aerosol observation intercomparison, aerosol chemical composition during IOPs, aerosol profiling through a combination of lidar and aircraft observations, cloud and precipitation processes characterization through analysis of multi-frequency radar, lidar and MWR measurements.
