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Atmospheric Physics at UMBC physics.umbc.edu (mcmillan@umbc.edu)

Offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees Research areas: remote sensing of aerosols, gases, clouds, and transport modeling 4 core faculty, 20 research faculty, 2 Joint Centers with NASA Goddard (100+ researchers), and 15 graduate students.

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Atmospheric Physics at UMBC physics.umbc.edu (mcmillan@umbc.edu)

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  1. Offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees • Research areas: remote sensing of aerosols, gases, clouds, and transport modeling • 4 core faculty, 20 research faculty, 2 Joint Centers with NASA Goddard (100+ researchers), • and 15 graduate students Atmospheric Physics at UMBCphysics.umbc.edu (mcmillan@umbc.edu) • Research Instrumentation • Full meteorological station including all-sky camera • In situ trace gas and aerosol monitors including filters • Multiple Lidar systems (scannable, Raman, elastic, MPL) • Uplooking atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI) • AERONET CIMEL sun photometer and Suominet GPS • Lightning mapper network • CO2 and eddy flux covariance measurements • Vaisala RS-92 radiosonde ground-station Penn State Colloquium http://physics.umbc.edu/~mcmillan 1/18/07

  2. Atmospheric Lidar GroupRaymond Hoff (hoff@umbc.edu)Areas of Research • Understanding optical properties of atmospheric aerosols and gases in a suburban environment • Understanding satellite retrievals of these chemicals and the relationship between column and profile measurements • Calibrating the remote sensing measurements with in-situ ground measurements • Understanding the impact of aerosols on human health

  3. UMBC Monitoring of Air Pollution (UMAP)http://alg.umbc.edu/UMAP

  4. Physics Department www.umbc.edu/laco Laboratory for Aerosol and Cloud Optics Laboratory Measurements New Remote Sensing Aircraft Sensors and Measurements Instrument Development

  5. Physics Department www.umbc.edu/laco Laboratory for Aerosol and Cloud Optics Science Marshak et al. 2006, ACP Martins et al. 2007, ACPD Zinner et al. 2008, ACPD Instrument Development Prof. J. Vanderlei Martins martins@umbc.edu

  6. Remote sensing of trace gases: mainly CO and O3 • Long-range transport and impacts on air quality • Fire and human pollution changes with climate • Stratosphere-troposphere exchange • Planetary boundary layer evolution and air quality forecasting • Correlations of trace gases and aerosols • Ground-based: BBAERI • Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer • PBL Temperature and moisture profiler (U. Wis. developed) • PBL CO and tropospheric column O3 (UMBC developed) • Satellite: AIRS • Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (on Aqua) • CO retrievals and validation (Science Team member) • Integrating analysis with other observations: Calipso, MODIS, MOPITT, TES, OMI, IASI, ground-based, etc. Atmospheric Remote Sensing Facility (ARF)Wallace McMillan (mcmillan@umbc.edu)

  7. AIRS tracks LA fire plume to Texas Calipso track Calipso 532 nm attenuated backscatter LA Station Fire plume 8/30/09 (AP) Wallace McMillan (mcmillan@umbc.edu)

  8. Hurricane Katrina hot towers (TRMM) Lynn Sparling Research areas: Hurricanes:Small scale processes in the eye and eyewall and links to intensity change. Low level winds: Energy generation and boundary layer dynamics. Long-range transport: Tracking SO2 emissions from volcanoes. sparling@umbc.edu

  9. Student Opportunities • Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) http://gest.umbc.edu/student_opp/students.html • Joint Center for Earth Systems Techology (JCET) http://gest.umbc.edu/ faculty_publications/2010/JCET_Summer2010.pdf

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