LGK Oct 23 Dust emissions The Chilean aerosol-cloud- climate component of VOCALS 2007
Dec 21, 2015
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Dust emissions
The Chilean aerosol-cloud-climate component of VOCALS
2007
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The questions• Which are the emission
strengths and distributions of natural and anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and precursors over the area? (Emphasis on sulfur and dust)
• Which is the regional distribution of these aerosols? Which is the relative contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources ?
• How (much) do the anthropogenic sulfate aerosols affect cloud properties off the coast from Chile?
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Tools (1): models and computational power• Multi-scale atmospheric
chemistry and transport (MATCH)
• Rossby Center Atmospheric (RCA)
• MM5/WRF• German MM5• Clusters at CMM/DGF
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Tools (2): measurements
Chilean Air Force
• In situ characterization of activated CCN – CMM-DGF-CEAZA(Chile)/MISU-
ITM (Sweden)
• Satellite observations of cloud droplet radii and aerosol burden (+AERONET)– CMM-DGF (Chile)/LOA (France)
• Air-borne observations of aerosol and cloud properties– CEAZA-CMM-DGF
(Chile)/Karlsruhe FZK (Germany)