Douglas Westphal Anthony Bucholtz Piotr Flatau Arunas Kuciauskas Ming Liu Betsy Reid Jeffrey Reid Kim Richardson Annette Walker Aerosol and Radiation Modeling Section Marine Meteorology Division Naval Research Laboratory Monterey CA 93943 www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol Overview of Navy’s System for Global Modeling of Sulfate, Smoke & Dust
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Douglas Westphal Anthony Bucholtz
Piotr FlatauArunas Kuciauskas
Ming LiuBetsy Reid
Jeffrey ReidKim RichardsonAnnette Walker
Aerosol and Radiation Modeling SectionMarine Meteorology DivisionNaval Research Laboratory
Monterey CA 93943
www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol
Overview of Navy’s System for Global Modeling of Sulfate, Smoke & Dust
Conventional Navy view:•Marine aerosol (salt, sulfate) in marine boundary layer•Locally produced•EO propagation, TAWS, slant range visibility
But there are other aerosols and impacts:•Dust, smoke, pollution •Long-range transport•Operational constraints
Mediterranean, 15 April, 2000Impact of Aerosols on Navy Activities
Southwest Asia, 10 October, 2001
Southwest Asia, 12 October, 2001
Pollution and Smoke over the Atlantic
June 28, 2001SeaWiFS
Impact of Aerosols on Navy Activities:Volcanic Ash in the Mediterranean
October 28, 2002SeaWiFS
“… helicopters encountered … several large layers of suspended dust about 190 nm long. Like flying in a milk bowl … pilots unable to see the surface from as low as 75 feet.” NDU staff report on Iran Hostage Rescue Mission
“After sunrise the visibility reduced to less than 1 nautical mile in blowing dust, prompting all squadrons to immediately begin preserving topside aircraft. … the harbor pilot was told that visibility was down to less than ¼ mile at the harbor and that no traffic would be moved until the visibility improved.” USS Carl Vinson, U.A.E, February 1999
“The ability to have DAMPS generate a dust forecast out to 48 hrs would provide us with an ability to reschedule flight operations or move ships to other locations. In the eleven months I’ve been out here, dust has had the biggest impact on limiting and/or canceling operations that have taken place in this AOR.” CO NAVCENTMETOCCEN, Bahrain, July 2000
At Roosevelt Roads/Vieques, Puerto Rico, drone operations over practice ranges were cancelled by conditions of reduced visibility due to Saharan dust; interfered with gunnery training schedules (couldn’t visually certify range was clear)
Impact of Dust on Navy Activities
Impact of Aerosol on Navy Activities
Aerosol climatology required for selection of High Energy LasersFocused on marine boundary layer (for ship defense)
Impact of Aerosols on NWP:Example of Visible Direct Effect
•SEAWIFS Visible wavelength imagery for March 17, 2002
•Plume of aerosol leaving Asia composed of dust, pollution and other aerosols
•Direct effects are obvious
•Indirect effects are possible as aerosol is entrained into synoptic weather system
KOREA
ACE-Asia Experiment, April 2001• Shipboard deployment• Sea of Japan (subject to dust
storms from China)• Main result: increased downward
infrared flux due to dust in atmosphere
Impact of Aerosols on NWP:Example of Infrared Direct Effect
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Impact of Aerosols on NWP:Example of Indirect Effect
AVHRR Near-IR imagery for May 14, 1994, from MAST
“Ship tracks” are variations in cloud albedo due to aerosol-induced changes in cloud properties
Large-scale changes in cloud albedo likely due to polluted vs. clean air
Large-Scale Albedo Change
Ship Tracks
Impact of Aerosols on NWP:Indirect Effect on Hurricane Felix?
(El Niño) Dust Contamination Smoke Effect
Cummings/FNMOC
Impact of Aerosols on NWP:Aerosol Contamination of SST Retrieval
Why Global?Long-Range Transport
Often assumed that aerosol is locally produced and can be modeled based on local variables, ignoring long-range transport
However,
•Intercontinental aerosol transport occurs frequently•Regional aerosols can be significantly impacted by non-local sources
Other reasons for global modeling:
•Regional aerosol simulations require initial and boundary conditions•Validation data are scarce; validate model wherever data are available
Intercontinental Transport
Background: Composite of Several Retrievals of TOMS Absorbing Aerosol Index
Dust: Red Arrows, Smoke: Blue Arrows Background: Composite of several TOMS retrievals of Aerosol
Index
Intercontinental Transport
Objectives:
•Forecast global and regional distribution of aerosols •Measure and model the optical effects of aerosols•Forecast slant range visibility•Determine the importance of aerosol effects for NWP
Approach:
•Modeling•Global and regional predictive aerosol transport models with emphasis on dynamical forcing and transport, rather than microphysics and chemistry•Data assimilation of satellite data
•Theoretical•Calculate scattering by individual particles•Develop accurate and efficient forward modeling methods for NWP
•Experimental•Verify theoretical calculations using in situ and remotely sensed data•Validate transport models with in situ and satellite data
• Twice-daily, 5-day forecasts of SO2, sulfate, dust and smoke
• Operational global weather model (NOGAPS) provides forecasts of P, T, q, u, v, w, Kz, cloud parameters, precip., stress, and ground wetness at 6-hour intervals on 1X1 degree grid; 14 levels to 100 mb
• Semi-Lagrangian horizontal transport; finite element horizontal diffusion; finite element vertical transport
• SO2 emission from GEIA inventory; oceanic DMS emission
• Deflation depends on threshold velocity, forecasted stress and ground wetness
• Smoke emission based on satellite detection of fires• Linear gas-phase chemistry• Dry deposition: function of specie, stress, stability, surface type• Wet removal: function of precipitation rate, specie, cloud type
*Modified DEHM model (Christensen, Atm. Env., 1998)
Global Aerosol Model
November 27 NAAPS 5-day Forecast for December 2, 2002
Total Optical Depth
Dust Optical Depth
Sulfate Optical Depth
Smoke Optical Depth
Analysis using NAAPS: JFK Jr. Study(collab. with Prospero@ U. Miami, Poirot@
Vermont)
Real-Time NAAPS analyses allowed rapid response to crash:– Determined atmospheric structure: deep continental
• Add biome and seasonal dependence• Apply persistence check to Wildfire-ABBA• Use MODIS for detection outside of W. Hemisphere
– Update GEIA sulfur dioxide sources– Add salt and black carbon components
• Analysis and simulation– Develop transition path for use in screening for SST retrievals– Assimilate satellite retrievals of aerosol properties– Mesoscale generation Global transport Mesoscale impact
• Have developed mesoscale dust model, triply nested: 9, 27, an 81-km resolution
• Working on mesoscale source inventory to drive mesoscale dust model
– Continue validation using PRIDE, ACE/Asia, and other data– Initiate aerosol monitoring at MRY including IOP: ADAM