A016
Dust in a Changing Climate: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding I

Monday, 7 December 2020: 07:00-08:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Jasper F Kok, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Adeyemi A Adebiyi, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Claire L Ryder, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Jasper F Kok, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Chairs:  Adeyemi A Adebiyi, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Claire L Ryder, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Claire L Ryder, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
07:00
A016-01
The Atmospheric Drivers of the Major Saharan Dust Storm in June 2020 (Invited) (728949)
Amato T Evan1, Diana Francis2, Ricardo Morais Fonseca3, Narendra Reddy Nelli3, Juan Cuesta4 and Marouane Temimi3, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (3)Khalifa University of Science and Technology, CESAM Lab, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (4)Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université de Paris, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Créteil, France
07:04
A016-02
“Godzilla” African Dust Event of June 2020: Impacts of Air Quality in the Greater Caribbean Basin, the Gulf of Mexico and the United States (688336)
Olga L Mayol-Bracero1, Joseph M Prospero2, John A Ogren3, Patrick J Sheridan4, Peter Richard Colarco5, Brent Holben6, Hongbin Yu6, Pablo Mendez-Lazaro7, Frank E Muller-Karger8, Daniel Brooks Otis8, Digna T Rueda-Roa9, Andrea M Sealy10, Paquita Zuidema2, Cassandra Gaston11, Luis Ladino12, Jack Molinie13, Peng Xian14, Odalys Martínez-Sánchez15, Bighnaraj Sarangi16, Elvis Torres-Delgado1, Sheilynette Perez17, Bianca Lee Martinez-Huertas18, Angel Rios17, Pedro Leon17, Josele Rosas-Nava17, Graciela Raga19 and Daniel Rosas20, (1)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Department of Environmental Science, San Juan, PR, United States, (2)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, Environmental Health Department, San Juan, PR, United States, (8)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (9)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (10)Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Bridgetown, Barbados, (11)University of Miami, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (12)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centre of Atmospheric Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico, (13)Universite Antilles Guyane, LARGE, Pointe-a-Pitre, France, (14)Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (15)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR, United States, (16)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Environmental Science, San Juan, United States, (17)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Environmental Science, San Juan, PR, United States, (18)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Chemistry, San Juan, PR, United States, (19)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centre of Atmospheric Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico, (20)Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, YC, Mexico
07:08
A016-03
The International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP) Perspective on the Massive June 2020 Saharan Dust Event (678349)
Peter Richard Colarco1, Anton Darmenov2, Peng Xian3, Jeffrey S. Reid4, Arlindo daSilva1, Carlos Pérez García-Pando5,6, Oriol Jorba6, Zak Kipling7, Samuel Rémy8, Angela Benedetti9, Jeffrey McQueen10, Rostislav Kouznetsov11, Taichu Y Tanaka12, Melissa Brooks13, Olga L Mayol-Bracero14, Brent Holben1, Edward P Nowottnick1 and Ellsworth Judd Welton1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain, (6)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (7)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (8)HYGEOS, Lille, France, (9)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (10)NOAA College Park, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, (11)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (12)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, (13)UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (14)University of Puerto Rio Piedras Campus, Department of Environmental Science, San Juan, PR, United States
07:12
A016-04
The Gigantic African Dust Intrusion to the Caribbean Basin and southern U.S. in June 2020: An analysis of MODIS and CALIOP remote sensing observations and GEOS model simulations (691983)
Hongbin Yu1, Qian Tan2, Lillian Zhou3, Yaping Zhou3,4, Huisheng Bian3,5, Mian Chin3, Dongchul Kim6, Robert C Levy3, Yingxi Rona Shi3,7, Lorraine Remer8 and Olga L Mayol-Bracero9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, San Jose, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Universities Space Research Association, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology UMBC, Baltimore, ND, United States, (8)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)University of Puerto Rio Piedras Campus, Department of Environmental Science, San Juan, PR, United States
07:16
A016-05
Quasi-Lagrangian Large-Eddy Simulation of Dust Transport in the Saharan Air Layer (706689)
Rodrigo Rodakoviski, Marcelo Chamecki, Jasper F Kok and Adeyemi A Adebiyi, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
07:20
A016-06
The influence of Saharan Dust Radiative Forcing on Wave Activity over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean (764902)
Farnaz Hosseinpour and Eric M Wilcox, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States
07:24
A016-07
The role of moist convection and haboobs in climate change of dust-generating winds over the Sahel and Sahara (738380)
Luis Garcia-Carreras, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom, John Marsham, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Rachel Anne Stratton, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom and Simon Tucker, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom
07:28
A016-08
A 16-year climatology of the link between dry air intrusions and large-scale dust storms in Northwest Africa (667988)
Elody Fluck, Weizmann Institute of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel and Shira Raveh-Rubin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
07:32
Discussion
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