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Research article
| 
07 Oct 2020
Research article |
| 07 Oct 2020
| 07 Oct 2020
Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016
Yohei Shinozuka
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Pablo E. Saide
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Institute of
the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles,
CA, USA
Gonzalo A. Ferrada
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, The
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Sharon P. Burton
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Richard Ferrare
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Sarah J. Doherty
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle,
WA, USA
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA
Hamish Gordon
School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Karla Longo
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Marc Mallet
CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS, UMR 3589, Toulouse, France
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory,
Argonne, IL, USA
Qiaoqiao Wang
Center for Air Pollution and Climate Change Research (APCC),
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University,
Guangzhou, China
Yafang Cheng
Minerva Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
Mainz, Germany
Amie Dobracki
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of
Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Steffen Freitag
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Steven G. Howell
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Samuel LeBlanc
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
Connor Flynn
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Michal Segal-Rosenhaimer
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
Kristina Pistone
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
James R. Podolske
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Eric J. Stith
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
Joseph Ryan Bennett
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
Gregory R. Carmichael
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, The
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Arlindo da Silva
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Ravi Govindaraju
Science Systems and Applications, Inc, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Ruby Leung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Yang Zhang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern
University, Boston, MA, USA
Leonhard Pfister
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Ju-Mee Ryoo
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
Jens Redemann
School of Meteorology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman,
OK, USA
Robert Wood
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of
Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Data sets
Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2016 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2016_V
ORACLES 2016 aggregated model and observation products ORACLES Science Team https://espo.nasa.gov/sites/ default/files/box_P3ER2Models_2016mmdd_R8.nc
Short summary
In the southeast Atlantic, well-defined smoke plumes from Africa advect over marine boundary layer cloud decks; both are most extensive around September, when most of the smoke resides in the free troposphere. A framework is put forth for evaluating the performance of a range of global and regional atmospheric composition models against observations made during the NASA ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) airborne mission in September 2016.
In the southeast Atlantic, well-defined smoke plumes from Africa advect over marine boundary...
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