Aerosol Life Cycle working group value-added and evaluation products: recently produced and currently in progress
Authors
Connor J. Flynn — University of Oklahoma
James Barnard — University of Nevada Reno
Duli Chand — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Brian D Ermold — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Evgueni Kassianov — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Annette S. Koontz — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rob K Newsom — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yan Shi — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chitra Sivaraman — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Category
Aerosol Properties
Description
Aerosol particles affect climate and climate change by scattering and absorbing solar radiation. The objective of the Aerosol Life Cycle working group is to improve understanding of the roles of aerosols in the climate system and specifically to decrease uncertainty in radiative forcing by aerosols, whether through direct interaction with solar radiation or indirectly through aerosol-cloud processes.The ARM Infrastructure supports these objectives through processing of measurements collected at ARM facilities. Such processing has several aims including improved instrument operation (data screens, outlier rejection), improved interpretation of measurement data (QC, for example), and retrieval of properties not directly available from the instrument measurements themselves such as aerosol optical depth (AOD) and intensive aerosol properties from both in situ and remote sensing measurements.
Here we present results highlighting recently generated value-added products (VAPs) with emphasis on products related to aerosol optical properties. Aerosol products have been delivered or are in progress at every existing ARM facility, permanent fixed sites as well as at each location that an ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) has operated.