Aerosol composition in the UTLS and its connections to the anthropogenic and natural emissions and the monsoon convective system

Mian Chin1, Huisheng Bian2, Valentina Aquila3, Peter Richard Colarco3, Anton Darmenov4, John Philip Burrows5, Landon A Rieger6, Adam E Bourassa7, D A Degenstein7, Jean-Paul Vernier8, David M Winker9, Ghassan Taha10, Pawan K Bhartia1, Omar Torres1, Simon A Carn11 and Steven Smith12, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (6)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (7)University of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (8)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (9)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (10)Universities Space Research Association, NASA/code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Michigan Technological University, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering & Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (12)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States