Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Interactions with Clouds, Radiation, and Climate

Session ID#: 282074

Session Description:
Atmospheric aerosols are formed, transformed, transported, and removed through complex physicochemical processes, and they strongly influence weather and climate through interactions with clouds, radiation, and precipitation. In turn, meteorology and climate shape aerosol sources, properties, budgets, and lifecycles. These interactions are especially important during extreme events and in rapidly changing environments.

We welcome theoretical, observational, experimental, modeling, and data-driven studies that advance understanding of aerosols and aerosol-cloud-radiation-climate interactions across scales, from process-level understanding to Earth system prediction. Topics include: (1) Aerosol sources, formation, evolution, and removal. (2) Aerosol processes affecting radiation and clouds, including new-particle formation and growth, cloud condensation and ice nucleation, multiphase chemistry, optical properties, and mixing state. (3) Interactions among aerosols, radiation, liquid-, mixed-, and ice-phase clouds, and precipitation. (4) Emerging observational and data-driven constraints, including laboratory studies, field observations, remote sensing, and machine learning. (5) Impacts and feedbacks involving weather, climate, and air quality.

Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Bin Zhao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Hong Liao, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China, Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jingchuan Chen, Texas A&M University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States
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