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Aerosol Working Group Meeting Boulder, CO September 30 - October 2, 2009

Aerosol Working Group Meeting Boulder, CO September 30 - October 2, 2009. October 1 Merger ARM + ASP  ASR Atmospheric System Research Program ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF). AWG Mission Statement

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Aerosol Working Group Meeting Boulder, CO September 30 - October 2, 2009

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  1. Aerosol Working Group Meeting Boulder, CO September 30 - October 2, 2009 October 1 Merger ARM + ASP ASR Atmospheric System Research Program ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) AWG Mission Statement The primary objective of ARM's aerosol research is to quantify the impact of aerosols on the radiative balance of Earth’s climate system, both directly and indirectly through their influence on clouds. To this end the program uses in situ and remote sensing observations from surface-based, airborne and satellite platforms together with process to global-scale modeling.

  2. Meeting Overview

  3. AWG Infrastructure Kiran Alapaty, ARM Science Program Director Ashley Williamson, ASP Program Manager Wanda Ferrell, ACRF Program Director Rick Petty, AAF Program Director Science and Infrastructure Steering Committee ACRF Jim Mather, Technical Director Doug Sisterson, Operations Randy Peppler, Data Quality Ray McCord, Data Archive Richard Eagan, Data Systems Jimmy Voyles, Field Campaign & Instrument Coordinator AWG Steering Committee Allison McComiskey (Chair) Dubey Rich Ferrare Steve Ghan Steve Schwartz AWG Translator Connor Flynn Annette Koontz (Support) Chitra Sivaraman (Support) AWG ARM http://www.arm.gov/instruments/mentors.php

  4. Funded Aerosol Science

  5. http://www.arm.gov/about/recovery.php Recovery Act Instrumentation - Aerosols

  6. http://www.arm.gov/about/recovery.php Recovery Act Instrumentation - Radar & Lidar

  7. http://www.arm.gov/about/recovery.php Recovery Act Instrumentation - Other

  8. Stimulating New Datastreams • New Observations  New Datastreams • what are the desired products? • what accuracy is needed for different applications? • what are data priorities? • when/where (what sites) are they needed? • ACRF Activities: Value Added Products/Best Estimate Datasets • Geophysical Parameters • overarching best estimates data product • Radiatively Important Parameters Best Estimate (RIPBE) • separate BBHRP inputs from the model to provide an independent database of continuous parameters needed to run a RT model

  9. AWG Recommendations (STM 2009) • Value Added Products / Best Estimate Datasets • CCN closure • aerosol extinction closure • new instrumentation for characterizing aerosol chemical composition provides information to produce turn-key VAPs that result in these closures at several ARM sites (SGP and AMFs) [activities in collaboration with ASP] • Aerosol Best Estimate • invigorate and structure ABE so that it provides the kind of information and the most accurate information that is useful to modelers, supplements observations of cloud and radiation, and is easy to implement in radiative closure studies at field measurement sites and AMFs where sufficient observations exist [ongoing ARM activities]

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