Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11217-2022
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11217-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
02 Sep 2022
Research article |
| 02 Sep 2022
Using aircraft measurements to characterize subgrid-scale variability of aerosol properties near the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains site
Jerome D. Fast
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
David M. Bell
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
Gourihar Kulkarni
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Jiumeng Liu
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Georges Saliba
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, USA
John E. Shilling
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Kaitlyn Suski
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Juul Labs, San Francisco, California, USA
Jason Tomlinson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Jian Wang
Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Rahul Zaveri
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Alla Zelenyuk
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
Data sets
ARM HI-SCALE data DOE https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/sgp2016hiscale
Short summary
Recent aircraft measurements from the HI-SCALE campaign conducted over the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in Oklahoma are used to quantify spatial variability of aerosol properties in terms of grid spacings typically used by weather and climate models. Surprisingly large horizontal gradients in aerosol properties were frequently observed in this rural area. This spatial variability can be used as an uncertainty range when comparing surface point measurements with model predictions.
Recent aircraft measurements from the HI-SCALE campaign conducted over the Southern Great Plains...
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