This is an archived version of the 2023 Global Monitoring Annual Conference
Wednesday, May 24
Oral Session

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Agenda

All times listed are in Mountain Daylight Time (UTC minus 6 hours)

(Only presenter's name is given; please refer to abstract for complete author listing.)
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7:30 Registration Desk Opens
8:25 Welcome and Logistics Overview
Session 5 Radiation and Aerosols — Chaired by Betsy Andrews & Laura Riihimaki
08:30 - 08:45 Using Satellite Observations and Surface Aerosol Monitoring Networks (e.g., BC2 and NFAN) to Characterize Long-range Mineral Dust Transport in the U.S.

Manisha Mehra (Baylor University, Waco, TX)

08:45 - 09:00 A Long-term Study of Aerosol Concentrations and Solar Radiation at Mt. Lulin (2,862m) in East Asia

Hsiang-Yu Huang (National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taoyuan, Taiwan)

09:00 - 09:15 Decreasing Aerosol Hygroscopicity at the NOAA FAN Site at Appalachian State University and the Potential Role of Changing Aerosol Composition

James Patrick Sherman (Appalachian State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Boone, NC)

09:15 - 09:30 Application of BC Observations to Quantify CO and its Contribution from Fossil Fuel and Biomass Burning Fractions over the Central Himalayas

Priyanka Srivastava (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, Japan)

09:30 - 09:45 Surface Solar Radiation Variability in Complex Cloud-Aerosol Environments: New Insights from Observations and High-Resolution Simulations

Jake Gristey (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

09:45 - 10:00 Updates to the Operational UV Index – Validation Against GRAD Observations

Craig S. Long (Retired from the NOAA National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD)

10:00 Break
Session 6 Halocarbons and Upper Atmosphere Observations 2 — Chaired by Steve Montzka & Patrick Cullis
10:30 - 10:45 Linking Atmospheric Data to High-quality Gas Standards – a 25+ Year Perspective

Brad Hall (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML), Boulder, CO)

10:45 - 11:00 Improving Data Quality in Long-term Canadian Ozone Sounding Records

David W. Tarasick (Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

11:00 - 11:15 Arctic Stratospheric Measurements of Aerosol, Water Vapor, and Ozone during SABRE  

Elizabeth C. Asher (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

11:15 - 11:30 Preliminary Balloon-borne in Situ Water Vapor Intercomparison from Aire-sur-l’Adour, France: September 2022

Emrys Hall (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML), Boulder, CO)

11:30 - 11:45 TR2Ex Measurements of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption Plume

Paul J. Walter (St. Edward's University, Austin, TX)

11:45 - 12:00 Stratospheric Ozone Vertical Distribution at Select NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory Dobson Monitoring Stations and Updated Trends of the Based on the LOTUS Regression Model

Jeannette D. Wild (Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)

12:00 Lunch on your own
Session 7 Air Quality — Chaired by Gabrielle Petron & Peter Effertz
14:00 - 14:15 Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing Speciated Characterization of Atmospheric Organics

Emily Barnes Franklin (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)

14:15 - 14:30 Applications of Ethane to Methane Ratios: Identifying Abnormal Tank Emissions in the Permian Basin and Implications for Source Apportionment

Dana Caulton (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY)

14:30 - 14:45 Dynamical Drivers of Free-Tropospheric Ozone Increases Over Southeast Asia

Ryan M. Stauffer (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD)

14:45 - 15:00 2021 Wildfires in Siberia as Seen from the TROPOMI: a "Coal Fire" Hypothesis 

Leonid Yurganov (Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD)

15:00 - 15:15 Variabilities in Surface Ozone at the Doon Valley of the Himalayan Foothills: Role of Different Chemical Processes

Mahendar Chand Rajwar (Aryabhatta Research Institute for observational sciences (ARIES), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Atmospheric Science Division, Govt. of India, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India)

15:15 - 15:30 A New Era for Observing Air Quality from Space

Greg Frost (NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO)

15:30 Break
Session 8 Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gases 2 — Chaired by Bharat Rastogi & Aleya Kaushik
16:00 - 16:15 Remote-Sensing Derived Trends in Gross Primary Production Explain Increases in the CO2 Seasonal Cycle Amplitude

Liyin He (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

16:15 - 16:30 Developing an Australian Greenhouse Gas Observing Network (AGGON)

Christopher Caldow (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Aspendale, VIC 3195, Australia)

16:30 - 16:45 Evaluation of the Impact of the Expanded in Situ Measurement Network on the Diagnosis of North American Methane Fluxes

Natasha Miles (The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA)

16:45 - 17:00 Reduced Carbon Uptake by European Forests during the Summer Drought of 2022

Auke van der Woude (University of Groningen, Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen, Netherlands)

17:00 - 17:15 Identifying Methane Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations in a Mixed Emission Region Within the Colorado Front Range 

Kathryn M. Steinmann (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY)

17:15 - 17:30 Updated Time-varying Maps of Surface Ocean δ13C of DIC and the 13CO2 Isotopic Disequilibrium Flux with Uncertainty

David Munro (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

17:30 Closing Remarks
18:00 Conference Adjourns - Dinner on your own