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Session Proposal: Advancing Research on Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Impacts on Climate, Air Quality, and Health (AGU25)

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Advancing Research on Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Impacts on Climate, Air Quality, and Health

Session ID#: 247790

Session Description:
Atmospheric aerosols and their interaction with radiation and clouds represent the largest uncertainties in our understanding of the climate. Beyond the climatic effects, their implications on air quality and human health are also profound. This session seeks to bring together recent advances, including but not limited to the following topics: (1) theoretical, observational, and modeling effort on aerosol microphysics; (2) characterization of aerosol interactions with radiation (ARI) and clouds (ACI); (3) aerosol interactions with the biosphere, such as dust and biomass-burning aerosols with the biogeochemical cycle; (4) the impact of atmospheric particulate matter and its chemical components on air quality and human health; (5) geoengineering, such as stratospheric aerosol injection, marine cloud brightening, and cirrus cloud thinning; (6) aerosols' effect on extreme meteorological events; and (7) artificial intelligence (AI) for aerosol research.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Qianqian Song, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Arman Pouyaei, Princeton University/NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Xiaohan Sally Li, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Shipeng Zhang, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States
 
Growing influences of wildfire aerosols on cloud condensation nuclei and cloud albedo over remote North Atlantic Ocean (Invited) (1847872)
Jian Wang1, Shengqian Zhou1 and Hamish Gordon2, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
 
Estimating mortality due to air pollution in Europe for the CATALYSE project (1849164)
Brendan Steffens, Andrea Pozzer and Johannes Lelieveld, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
 
From Regulation to Radiative Forcing: Constraining the Climate Response to Declining Shipping Aerosol Emissions (Invited) (1857693)
Duncan Watson-Parris, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Tracking Global Wildfire-sourced PM2.5 Pollution by Multisource Data Fusion (1866601)
Qingyang Xiao1, Changpei He1, Yuexuanzi Wang1, Guannan Geng2 and Qiang Zhang3, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (3)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China
 
Quantifying source contributions to Central American particulate matter using GEOS-Chem modeling and satellite data (1881278)
Ana Lasso de la Vega, Nicole June, Samuel O'Donnell and Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
Aerosol Phase States and Their Implications for the Heterogeneous Formation of Particulate Nitrate in Urban Atmospheres (1889164)
Tien Van Do1, Na Rae Choi2, Taehyoung Lee3, Hyejung Shin4, Kwangyul Lee4, Jong Sung Park4, Seokjun Seo4 and Mijung Song1,5, (1)Department of Earth and Environment Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do 54896, South Korea, (2)Department of Environmental Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, South Korea, (3)Department of Environmental Science, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin 17035, South Korea, (4)Department of Climate and Air Quality Research, National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon 22689, South Korea, (5)Department of Environment and Energy, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do 54896, South Korea
 
Black carbon aerosol size in wild- and agricultural- fire smoke (1894994)
Dr. Joshua Peter Schwarz, PhD, NOAA Boulder, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Anne Elizabeth Perring, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, United States, Joseph M Katich, University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, United States, Emily Gargulinski, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Amber Jeanine Soja, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, United States, Braden Mediavilla, Colgate University, Hamilton, United States, Bernadett Weinzierl, Centreville, MD, United States and Richard Moore, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Development of a Satellite-Based Air Quality Monitoring Dashboard for South Africa (1897699)
Zama Thobeka Katamzi-Joseph, South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa and Lerato Shikwambana, South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Pretoria, South Africa
 
Prediction of Ambient PM2.5 Chemical Components in Southern California Using Machine Learning (1897989)
Jiani Yang1, Sina Hasheminassab2, Dr. Meredith Franklin, PhD3, Antong Zhang4, David J Diner2, Joseph P. Pinto5 and Yuk L Yung6, (1)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Toronto, Department of Statistical Sciences and School of the Environment, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Brown University, Division of Applied Mathematics, Providence, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
 
Characterization and Source Analysis of Airborne Microplastics in an Urban Area of South Korea Using Single-Particle Analysis and Transport Models (1907725)
Haeju Lee1, Cheon-Woong Kang2, Hanjin Yoo3, Yen Thi-Hoang Le2 and Ki-Joon Jeon2, (1)Inha University, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Inha University, Incheon, South Korea, (3)Inha University, Department of Chemistry, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Modeling Black Carbon Dry Deposition and Climate Forcing in the Indo-Gangetic Basin Using a Hybrid Machine Learning and Physical Approach (1908901)
Vaishnav Bartaria, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Chemistry, Agra, India, Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States and Ashok Jangid, Dayalbagh Education Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra, UTTAR Pradesh, India
 
Development and Characterization of a Hydration Spectrometer (HySpec) System for Studying Aerosol Cloud Interactions (1913056)
Ogochukwu Yvonne Enekwizu, Ernie R Lewis and Arthur J Sedlacek III, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
 
Multi-decadal Variability and Decadal Shifts in Black Carbon and Sulfate Aerosols over North East India (1980–2020): Insights from Reanalysis (1914743)
Swarnendu Saha1, Arundhati Kundu2,3, Shyam S Kundu2 and Abhishek Chhari4, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Physical Sciences, Kolkata, India, (2)North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Department of Space, Shillong, India, (3)Cotton University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India, (4)Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad, India
 
Comparing Saharan and East Asian Dust Events in Changchun (1915201)
Yuliia Yukhymchuk1, Gennadi P Milinevsky1,2, Yu Shi3, Xuhui Gao4, Xuanyi Wei4, Ivan Syniavskyi5 and Vassyl Danylevsky6, (1)Jilin University, College of Physics, International Center of Future Science, Changchun, China, (2)Jilin University, College of Physics, Jilin, China, (3)Jilin University, College of Physics, International Center Future Science, Changchun, China, (4)College of Physics, International Center of Future Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China, (5)Main Astronomical Observatory of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, (6)Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
 
The Effects of Smoke Aerosols on CAPE formation Over Severe Weather Regimes (1918025)
Matt Oehler, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, Mayra Oyola Merced, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, Katherine Wilson, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Stefanie Kluge, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Smoke, Dust, and Resilience: Unraveling the March 2025 Oklahoma Compound Hazards (1923008)
Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar1, David Schvartzman1, Emily West1, Jeffrey Lee1, Connor J. Flynn2, Kyle Eskew1, Andrew M Sayer3, Emma Miller4, Cameron R Homeyer5, Pubu Ciren6 and Stacey Hitchcock7, (1)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (2)PNNL, Richland, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Columbia, United States, (4)Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (6)IMSG, College Park, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States
 
Satellite Observations Show Increase in Aerosols Over Black Rock City After Burning Man Event (1936499)
Gabriella Dauber, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, Matthew Wisdom, Chapman University, Orange, United States and Joshua B. Fisher, Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, United States
 
Black Carbon Emissions During Peak Traffic Hours in Semi-Urban Environments: Influence of Vehicular Activity and Meteorological Conditions (1942305)
Ishita Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kharagpur, India and Aditya Kumar Patra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Mining Engineering, Kharagpur, India
 
TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN AIR QUALITY: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF AQI AND PM₂.₅ IN DHAKA CITY, BANGLADESH (1945933)
Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Marziat Rahman, Researcher, Pollution & Climate Change, Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, MD. Nasir Ahmmed Patoary, Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science, Stamford University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Mohsina Hossain, Research Associate, Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS), Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Wildfire Exposure Assessment Using a Satellite-Constrained Lagrangian Models: Insights from the 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire (1946623)
Yue Jia, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, David W. Hyndman, University of Texas at Dallas, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Richardson, United States and Ignacio J Pisso, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
 
Quantifying the Influence of Internal and External Mixing States on the Direct Radiative Effect of Polluted Dust Aerosols Using Satellite Observations and Reanalysis Data. (1954405)
Ronghao Wang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States, Dr. Jianyu Zheng, PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, MD, United States, Qianqian Song, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States and Hongbin Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Atmospheric Gases and Particulate Matter as Quantitative Indicators of Urbanization Across Land-Use Gradients (1955832)
Jessica Weinberg1, Christian Salvador2, Melanie A Mayes3 and Tommy Mead2, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States
 
Impact of measurement uncertainties and intrinsic scatter on the quantification of precipitation susceptibility (1960505)
Shengqian Zhou1, Maiqi Zhang1, Virendra P Ghate2, Maria P Cadeddu3, Christine Chiu4 and Jian Wang1, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
 
Initial Measurements of Atmospheric Aerosol Size Distributions for Training a Machine Learning Model to Predict Aerosol Liquid Water and Cloud Condensation Nuclei (1962242)
Ethan Parkhurst, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States and James P Sherman, Appalachian State University, Physics and Astronomy, Boone, NC, United States
 
Towards Global Retrievals of Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Aerosol Absorption based on EarthCARE ATLID observations (1967849)
Jens Redemann1, Lan Gao2, Bradley Lamkin2, Philip Stier3, Dave Donovan4, Silke Gross5 and Martin Wirth6, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (5)German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (6)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
 
Characterization of Aerosol Properties in a Gulf Coast Urban Environment: A Case Study from New Orleans (1970536)
Morewell Gasseller1, Freddie Landry2 and Briania Wardlow2, (1)Xavier University of Louisiana, Physics, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)Xavier University of Louisiana, Physics, New Orleans, United States
 
Informing long-term trends in criteria pollutants with high time resolution data from the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (1972235)
Dr. Benjamin Nault, Ph.D.1, Daniel Blomdahl2, Mina Tehrani3, Lalitha Aiyar4, Benjamin Werden5, Amira Yassine5, Ayreanna Pettijohn6, Kirsten Koehler5, Allison Ring7, James G. Hunter8, Benjamin F Zaitchik9 and Peter F DeCarlo5, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Floodplain Management Engineer, Moreton City Council, Queensland, Australia, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Balitmore, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (8)Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States, (9)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Characterizing Horizontal Gradients of Aerosol Pollution and Chemical Speciation Across Oklahoma (1977819)
Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar1, Emily West1, Connor J. Flynn2 and Jens Redemann1, (1)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (2)PNNL, Richland, United States
 
Wildfire and Vehicle Emission Influences on Aerosol Light Absorption at a Background Southeastern U.S. Site (1978538)
Kate Martin, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, James P Sherman, Appalachian State University, Physics and Astronomy, Boone, NC, United States and Robert Swarthout, Appalachian State University, Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences, Boone, United States
 
Optical Properties of Core–Shell Aerosols Using Mie Theory (1978855)
Valentina Sanchez Castano, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
 
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Adwoa Aboagye-Okyere, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Natalie M Mahowald, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Alistair Hayden, Cornell University, Department of Public Health and Ecosystem, Ithaca, United States, Fiona Lo, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, United States and Natalie Mahowald
 
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Ashok Jangid, Dayalbagh Education Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra, UTTAR Pradesh, India and Shailendra Pratap Singh, Dayalbagh Education Institute, Department of Physics and Computer Science, UTTAR Pradesh, India
 
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