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• The response of the Amazon ecosystem to the photosynthetically active radiation fields: integrating impacts of biomass burning aerosol and clouds in the NASA GEOS Earth system model.

  Authors:Huisheng Bian, Eunjee Lee, Randal D. Koster, Donifan Barahona, Mian Chin, Peter R. Colarco, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 18) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 24, 2021384 words Brief article The Amazon experiences fires every year, and the resulting biomass burning aerosols, together with cloud particles, influence the penetration of sunlight through the atmosphere, increasing the ratio of diffuse to direct...

• Observation and modeling of the historic "Godzilla" African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and the southern US in June 2020.

  Authors:Hongbin Yu, Qian Tan, Lillian Zhou, Yaping Zhou, Huisheng Bian, Mian Chin, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 18, 2021483 words Article This study characterizes a massive African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and southern US in June 2020, which is nicknamed the "Godzilla" dust plume, using a comprehensive set of satellite and ground-based...

• The long-term transport and radiative impacts of the 2017 British Columbia pyrocumulonimbus smoke aerosols in the stratosphere.

  Authors:Sampa Das, Peter R. Colarco, Luke D. Oman, Ghassan Taha, and Omar TorresFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 15) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 12, 2021380 words Brief article Interactions of meteorology with wildfires in British Columbia, Canada, during August 2017 led to three major pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) events that resulted in the injection of large amounts of smoke aerosols and other...

• Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance.

  Authors:Jasper F. Kok, Adeyemi A. Adebiyi, Samuel Albani, Yves Balkanski, Ramiro Checa-Garcia, Mian Chin, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  May 27, 2021374 words Brief article Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, atmospheric models struggle to accurately represent its spatial and temporal distribution. These model errors are partially caused by...

• Status and future of numerical atmospheric aerosol prediction with a focus on data requirements

  Authors:Angela Benedetti, Jeffrey S. Reid, Peter Knippertz, John H. Marsham, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Samuel Remy, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 14) Peer-Reviewed

  July 25, 2018559 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Numerical prediction of aerosol particle properties has become an important activity at many research and operational weather centers. This development is due to growing interest from a diverse set of stakeholders,...

• Observationally constrained analysis of sea salt aerosol in the marine atmosphere

  Authors:Huisheng Bian, Karl Froyd, Daniel M. Murphy, Jack Dibb, Anton Darmenov, Mian Chin, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 26, 2019347 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Atmospheric sea salt plays important roles in marine cloud formation and atmospheric chemistry. We performed an integrated analysis of NASA GEOS model simulations run with the GOCART aerosol module, in situ...

• Apparent dust size discrepancy in aerosol reanalysis in north African dust after long-range transport.

  Authors:Samantha J. Kramer, Claudia Alvarez, Anne E. Barkley, Peter R. Colarco, Lillian Custals, Rodrigo Delgadillo, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 28, 2020350 words Brief article North African dust reaches the southeastern United States every summer. Size-resolved dust mass measurements taken in Miami, Florida, indicate that more than one-half of the surface dust mass concentrations reside in...

• Revisiting the relationship between Atlantic dust and tropical cyclone activity using aerosol optical depth reanalyses: 2003-2018.

  Authors:Peng Xian, Philip J. Klotzbach, Jason P. Dunion, Matthew A. Janiga, Jeffrey S. Reid, Peter R. Colarco, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 11, 2020416 words Article Previous studies have noted a relationship between African dust and Atlantic tropical cyclone (TC) activity. However, due to the limitations of past dust analyses, the strength of this relationship remains uncertain. The...

• A comparison of lognormal and gamma size distributions for characterizing the stratospheric aerosol phase function from optical particle counter measurements

  Authors:Ernest Nyaku, Robert Loughman, Pawan K. Bhartia, Terry Deshler, Zhong Chen, and Peter R. ColarcoFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 2020283 words Brief article A series of in situ measurements made by optical particle counters (OPCs) at Laramie, Wyoming, provides size-resolved stratospheric aerosol concentration data over the period 1971-2018. A subset of these data covering...

• Chemical characterization of aerosols on the East Coast of the United States using aircraft and ground-based stations during the CLAMS experiment

  Authors:Andrea D. De Almeida Castanho, J. Vanderlei Martins, Peter V. Hobbs, Paulo Artaxo, Lorraine Remer, Marcia Yamasoe, et al.From:Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (Vol. 62, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

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• Simulation of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument aerosol index using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System aerosol reanalysis products

  Authors:Peter R. Colarco, Santiago Gasso, Changwoo Ahn, Virginie Buchard, Arlindo M. da Silva, and Omar TorresFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 10, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 3, 2017317 words Author abstract, Bri... We provide an analysis of the commonly used Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aerosol index (AI) product for qualitative detection of the presence and loading of absorbing aerosols. In our analysis, simulated...

• Development of an Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aerosol index (AI) data assimilation scheme for aerosol modeling over bright surfaces - a step toward direct radiance assimilation in the UV spectrum.

  Authors:Jianglong Zhang, Robert J. D. Spurr, Jeffrey S. Reid, Peng Xian, Peter R. Colarco, James R. Campbell, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 5, 2021288 words Brief article Using the Vector LInearized Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer (VLIDORT) code as the main driver for forward model simulations, a first-of-its-kind data assimilation scheme has been developed for assimilating Ozone...

• Contribution of the world's main dust source regions to the global cycle of desert dust.

  Authors:Jasper F. Kok, Adeyemi A. Adebiyi, Samuel Albani, Yves Balkanski, Ramiro Checa-Garcia, Mian Chin, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  May 27, 2021403 words Brief article Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, the relative contributions of the world's major source regions to the global dust cycle remain poorly constrained. This problem hinders...

• Exploring systematic offsets between aerosol products from the two MODIS sensors

  Authors:Robert C. Levy, Shana Mattoo, Virginia Sawyer, Yingxi Shi, Peter R. Colarco, Alexei I. Lyapustin, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 13, 2018478 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Long-term measurements of global aerosol loading and optical properties are essential for assessing climate-related questions. Using observations of spectral reflectance and radiance, the dark-target (DT) aerosol...

• Characterization of organic aerosol across the global remote troposphere: a comparison of ATom measurements and global chemistry models.

  Authors:Alma Hodzic, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Huisheng Bian, Mian Chin, Peter R. Colarco, Douglas A. Day, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 21, 2020509 words Article The spatial distribution and properties of submicron organic aerosol (OA) are among the key sources of uncertainty in our understanding of aerosol effects on climate. Uncertainties are particularly large over remote...