A051
Dust in a Changing Climate: from Small‐Scale Insights to Large‐Scale Understanding
Dust in a Changing Climate: from Small‐Scale Insights to Large‐Scale Understanding
Session ID#: 249915
Session Description:
The atmospheric mineral dust cycle is an integral part of the evolving Earth system. Emitted and deposited dust particles affect physical, chemical, and bio-geological processes that produce a wide range of complex effects on atmospheric composition, hydrological cycle, climate, and ecosystems. The purpose of the session is to showcase advances in understanding dust physical and chemical properties and its role in the Earth system. The session invites laboratory, remote sensing, and modelling studies of dust properties, dust source regions, high latitude dust, dust interactions with clouds, radiation, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, the cryosphere, and the biosphere, as well as observational and modeling insights into climate feedbacks and the variability of dust across spatiotemporal scales, dust impacts on air quality, and modeling studies of the dust cycle and its interactions with other Earth system cycles. Papers reporting analysis of the NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) data are strongly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- B - Biogeosciences
- EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- GH - GeoHealth
Index Terms:
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Yan Yu, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China
Conveners: Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Danny M. Leung, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Michelle Van der Does, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University, Ocean Sciences, Den Burg, Netherlands
Student/Early Career Convener: Danny M. Leung, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States
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