A020
Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Radiation Studies over the Southern Ocean
Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Radiation Studies over the Southern Ocean
Session ID#: 75967
Session Description:
Motivated by a lack of in situ observational data, large biases in the simulation of radiation budgets over the Southern Ocean in climate models, and knowledge that natural pre-industrial aerosols are a major source of uncertainty in understanding aerosol radiative forcing, several recent observational campaigns have been conducted over the Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean is a natural laboratory for examining cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation interactions for liquid and ice clouds, and the role of primary and secondary marine biogenic aerosols and sea-salt in these interactions. This session solicits contributions that describe recent ship-, island- or airborne field campaigns on Southern Ocean clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation, that use data from such campaigns or satellite remote sensing to advance understanding of these quantities and interactions between them, or that use models with a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Index Terms:
0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3349 Polar meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Greg M McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners: Athanasios Nenes, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, Roger Marchand, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Tom Lachlan-Cope, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison: Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
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