Stratospheric Dynamics, Aerosol Processes, and Interactions with the Troposphere

Session ID#: 280089

Session Description:
To better understand how the stratosphere plays an important role in our climate system, this session invites papers that study: 

  1. Stratospheric transport and dynamics, including but not limited to tracer (e.g., age of air, ozone) transport and mixing, Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC), quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), stratospheric turbulence, wave activities, and sudden stratospheric warming (SSW). 
  2. Stratospheric aerosols and chemical tracers from either natural (e.g., volcano eruptions, wildfire, deep convections) or anthropogenic activities (e.g., rocket/aircraft emissions, satellite re-entry, stratospheric aerosol injections), such as aerosol/plume dispersion and transport, aerosol nucleation and microphysical growth, aerosol radiative effects, aerosol-cloud interactions (e.g., PSCs).
  3. nteractions between stratosphere and troposphere, such as stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) and stratospheric influences on surface climate (e.g., subseasonal to seasonal predictability). 

Observational, modeling, theoretical, and machine-learning studies are all welcome in this session.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3362 Stratosphere/troposphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3363 Stratospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Dr. Hongwei Sun, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Qiang Fu, University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, Amy H Butler, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Fangqun Yu, SUNY at Albany, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, United States
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