2013 News & Events

Our scientists share new research at next month's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. CSD submitted an impressive 60 total presentations, most of which are oral. Several posters will be presented in addition to the oral presentations and invited talks outlined below. Search the AGU 2013 Fall Meeting Scientific Program for abstracts and session information.

Monday December 9th

A CIRES Visiting Fellow at CSD this past summer, Andrew Dessler discusses "A stratospheric water vapor feedback" at 10:35am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms II, 3010 Moscone West.

Ryan Neely discusses "Contributions of Asian SO2 Pollution to the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere" at 11:05am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) From Air Pollution to Climate Changes in Asia II, 3008 Moscone West.

Dan Murphy presents "Meteoritic material in stratospheric particles" at 3:10pm, as part of the AGU session Impacts of Cosmic Dust in Planetary Atmospheres II, 2011 Moscone West.

Tuesday December 10th

David Parrish was invited to present "Long-Term Baseline Ozone Changes: Disagreement between 3 ACCMIP/CMIP5 Models and Observations" at 8:00am, as part of the AGU session Sources and Chemistry of Atmospheric Oxidants II, 3006 Moscone West.

Joost deGouw introduces the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Air Quality and Climate in the Southeast US II at 8:00am, 3008 Moscone West:

Nick Wagner presents "Vertical Profiles of Aerosol Extinction over the Southeastern US during the Summer" at 2:44pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Air Quality and Climate in the Southeast US III, 3008 Moscone West.

Chuck Brock discusses "Particle Emission, Formation, and Growth in Industrial and Urban Plumes in the Southeastern United States" at 4:50pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Air Quality and Climate in the Southeast US IV, 3008 Moscone West.

Milos Markovic presents "Airborne measurements of black carbon aerosol over the Southeastern U.S. during the Southeast Atmosphere Study (SAS) experiment" at 5:04pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Air Quality and Climate in the Southeast US IV, 3008 Moscone West.

Wednesday December 11th

Karl Froyd was invited to present "Mineral dust as ice nuclei in the upper troposphere" at 8:45am, as part of the AGU session Atmospheric Ice Nuclei and Ice Cloud Formation I, 3010 Moscone West.

Elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union earlier this year, Graham Feingold discusses "How resilient are cloud systems to aerosol perturbations?" at 10:50am, as part of the AGU session New Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Presentations [virtual option], 2022 Moscone West.

Jan Kazil discusses "Observed and Projected Ocean Wind Speed Trends and Marine Boundary Layer Clouds" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session The Southern Ocean: Clouds, Aerosols, and the Air-Sea Interface I, 3006 Moscone West.

Lorenzo Polvani dicsusses "Distinguishing the tropospheric and stratospheric pathways of El Niño-Southern Oscillation teleconnections" at 11:50am, as part of the AGU session Thirty Years of ENSO Research: Dynamics, Predictability, Modeling, Impacts I, 3007 Moscone West.

Jin Liao presents "Aircraft measurements of organosulfates (IEPOX sulfate and glycolic acid sulfate) in the continental US" at 2:05pm, as part of the AGU session Molecular Chemistry and Physicochemical Properties of Organic Aerosols II, 3010 Moscone West.

Alexis Attwood discusses "The Influence of Chemical Composition and Relative Humidity on the Optical Properties of Aerosols During the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS)" at 2:44pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Air Quality and Climate in the Southeast US VI, 3008 Moscone West.

Abigail Koss presents "Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds by GC-MS in Rural Alabama during the 2013 SOAS Campaign" at 3:12pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Air Quality and Climate in the Southeast US VI, 3008 Moscone West.

Alan Brewer presents "Statistics of Tropical Atmospheric Cold Pool Structure and Occurrence as Sampled by a Scanning Doppler Lidar and In-situ Sensors Aboard the RV Revelle during the Dynamics of the Madden Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Experiment" at 5:15pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) The Madden-Julian Oscillation: Its Initiation, Identification, and Structure III, 3012 Moscone West.

Thursday December 12th

Sean Davis discusses "Modeling the impact of late 20th century stratospheric ozone changes: Sensitivity to different ozone forcing data sets and zonal asymmetry" at 9:30am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Ozone-Climate Connections I, 3006 Moscone West.

Joshua Schwarz presents "Early inventory of black carbon particulate size in accumulated snow and ice" at 9:45am, as part of the AGU session Dust and Black Carbon in the Cryosphere I [virtual option], 103 Moscone South.

Si-Wan Kim presents "Evaluation of NOx emission inventories in California using multi-satellite data sets, AMAX-DOAS and in-situ airborne measurements, and regional model simulations during the CalNex field campaign" at 2:55pm, as part of the AGU session Measurements, Modeling, and Evaluation of Emissions V, 3008 Moscone West.

Joost deGouw discusses "Increased Use of Natural Gas for Power Generation in the U.S. and the Resulting Reductions in Emissions of CO2, NOx and SO2" at 4:30pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I, 3004 Moscone West.

Friday December 13th

Christoph Senff presents "Lidar Observations of the Vertical Structure of Ozone and Aerosol during Wintertime High-Ozone Episodes Associated with Oil and Gas Exploration in the Uintah Basin" at 8:15am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II, 3004 Moscone West.

Robert Wild discusses "Reactive Nitrogen Partitioning and its Relationship to Winter Ozone Events in Utah" at 8:45am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II, 3004 Moscone West.

Bin Yuan discusses "Measurement of Organic and Inorganic Acids in the Uintah Basin, Utah during UBWOS 2012 and 2013" at 9:30am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II, 3004 Moscone West.

Peter Edwards was invited to present "Sensitivities of winter ozone pollution events in oil and gas producing regions to VOCs, NOx and radicals" at 9:45am, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II, 3004 Moscone West.

Jeff Peischl presents "Quantification of methane emissions from natural gas extraction from the Haynesville, Fayetteville, and northeastern Marcellus shale regions" at 2:10pm, as part of the AGU session (cosponsored by AMS) Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development IV [virtual option on-demand only], 3002 Moscone West.

Dan Murphy was invited to present "Direct and indirect radiative effects from regional aerosol shifts" at 2:40pm, as part of the AGU session Multi-sensor and Model Aerosol Data Synergy for Climate and Air Quality Applications II, 3001 Moscone West.

Troy Thornberry was invited to present "Water Vapor and Cirrus Clouds in the Pacific TTL during ATTREX 2013" at 4:00pm, as part of the AGU session The Tropical Tropopause Layer: Observations, Theory, and Modeling III, 3008 Moscone West.

Allison McComiskey was invited to present "Aerosol Indirect Effects from the Cloud to Climate Scale: Implications of Observational Scale for Constraining Forcing" at 5:30pm, as part of the AGU session Constraining Aerosol Indirect Forcing in Climate Models With Observations II [virtual option on-demand only], 2022 Moscone West.

Eric Ray discusses "Mixing into the TTL: What can we learn from black carbon measurements?" at 5:45pm, as part of the AGU session The Tropical Tropopause Layer: Observations, Theory, and Modeling III, 3008 Moscone West.