PPT-Aerosol Effects on Rainfall Patterns

Yi Ming Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton New Jersey Most anthropogenic aerosols are in the NH midlatitudes and tropics MODIS annualmean aerosol optical depth AOD Will the response be confined locally. Jingqiu . Mao . (GFDL/NOAA), . Songmiao. Fan (. GFDL/NOAA), . Ying . Chen (. Fudan. U, China). A . dominant source of nutrient iron to open . ocean, critical for plankton in surface waters:. -Biological pump of CO2. Two key impacts. Cloud feedback. Response of clouds to increased CO. 2. Aerosol indirect effects (AIEs). Response of clouds to changes in aerosol particles. Cloud feedbacks. Uncertainty in cloud feedbacks is main source of uncertainty in climate sensitivity. Meiyu. . Rainfall. Richard H. Johnson. Michael D. Toy. Colorado State University. IWM-V, Macao, 28 Oct – 1 Nov, 2013. COOL. Cool water develops along China coastline during winter monsoon . COOL. (Johnson and . Patterns and Probabilities of heavy rainfall. Richard H. Grumm. National Weather Service Office. State College PA 16803. Introduction. There are known patterns for heavy rainfall . There are known models to predict heavy rainfall. resolved. aerosol microphysics on photochemistry. and . heterogeneous . chemistry. Gan. Luo and . Fangqun. Yu. ASRC, SUNY-Albany. 2015-5-4. Introduction. Aerosol. Micro. physics. Photo. chemistry. COD. Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions. . Spring Quarter 2015. Logistics. Class . webpage. . Class meets 1:30-2:50 Mondays and Wednesdays in Room 406, ATG Building. Instructor: . Fall 2015. Core Questions. Primary production is controlled by time-varying soil moisture. Stochastic rainfall inputs. Soil physical properties control storage and “overflow”. Moisture-dependent ET loss. Robert Wood, Atmospheric Sciences,. University of Washington. Motivation. Aerosols can potentially influence earth’s radiation budget both by direct interaction with sunlight (aerosol . direct . effect), and also by altering cloud radiative properties (aerosol . Primary production is controlled by time-varying soil moisture. Stochastic rainfall inputs. Soil physical properties control storage and “overflow”. Moisture-dependent ET loss. What patterns emerge from a . Urgent Research Needs. James . Hansen*. 17 October 2018. AGU-CAS Meeting on Atmospheric PM. 2.5. *. Director, Climate Science, Awareness & Solutions, Columbia University Earth Institute. Aerosol Effects (Outline). . Spring Quarter 2015. Logistics. Class . webpage. . Class meets 1:30-2:50 Mondays and Wednesdays in Room 406, ATG Building. Instructor: . Prof. . Robert . Wood . [ATG . 718, Phone . Axel Lauer, . Mattia . Righi, Veronika Eyring, and Johannes Hendricks. Deutsches . Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR. ). , . Oberpfaffenhofen. , Germany. 27 May 2015. Scientific Questions. What . Using high resolution rainfall-radar to model fluvial erosion. Declan Valters, . David Schultz, Simon Brocklehurst. University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Image: Environment Agency (England). Overview. Elisabeth Andrews. CATCOS Workshop, June 2016. What is climate?. Climate is the average weather. The standard averaging time for climate is 30 years. “Weather is what you’re wearing, climate is what’s in your closet”.