Studying Aerosol, Clouds, and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeastern Texas

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• Journal Title:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Personal Author:
  Jensen, Michael P. ; Flynn, James H. ; Gonzalez-Cruz, Jorge E. ; Judd, Laura M. ; Kollias, Pavlos ; Kuang, Chongai ; McFarquhar, Greg M. ; Powers, Heath ; Ramamurthy, Prathap ; Sullivan, John ; Aiken, Allison C. ; Alvarez, Sergio L. ; Argay, Peter ; Argrow, Brian ; Bell, Tyler M. ; Boyer, Doug ; Brooks, Sarah D. ; Bruning, Eric C. ; Brunner, Kelcy ; Butterworth, Brian ; Calmer, Radiance ; Cappa, Christopher D. ; Chakrabarty, Rajan K. ; Chandrasekar, V. ; Chao, Chun-Ying ; Chen, Bo ; China, Swarup ; Collins, Don R. ; Collis, Scott M. ; Crowell, Sean ; Porto, Rachael Dal ; Boer, Gijs de ; Deng, Min ; Dexheimer, Darielle ; Drager, Aryeh J. ; Du, Xuanlin ; Dubey, Manvendra K. ; Dzambo, Andrew M. ; Etten-Bohm, Montana ; Fan, Jiwen ; Farley, Ryan ; Feng, Ya-Chien ; Feng, Yan ; Fenn, Marta ; Ferrare, Richard E. ; Flusche, Samuel ; Fridlind, Ann M. ; Galewsky, Joseph ; Gamarro, Harold ; Gardner, Samuel ; Ghate, Virendra P. ; Giangrande, Scott E. ; Griffin, Robert J. ; Griggs, Travis ; Gronoff, Guillaume P. ; Grover, Maxwell ; Gaugenti, Meghan ; Guo, Fangzhou ; Gupta, Siddhant ; Hu, Jiaxi ; Huang, Yongjie ; Jackson, Robert C. ; Hair, Jonathan W. ; Johnson, Karen L. ; Kasparoglu, Sabin ; Klein, Petra ; Kotsakis, Alexander E. ; Kumar, Joshin ; Kumjian, Matthew R. ; Lamer, Katia ; Lappin, Francesca M. ; Lei, Ziying ; Li, Jing ; Li, Ron ; Li, Yuezhi ; Logan, Timothy ; Lombardo, Kelly ; Luke, Edward P. ; Mages, Zackary ; Matthews, Alyssa A. ; Matthews, Brianna H. ; Mayol-Bracero, Olga ; Matsui, Toshihisa ; McKeown, Katherine E. ; Mehra, Manisha ; Mei, Fan ; Meskidzhe, Nicholas ; Nguyen, Cuong ; Nielsen, Erik R. ; Nowotarski, Christopher J. ; Oaks, David ; Oktem, Rusen ; Oue, Mariko ; Park, Jungmin M. ; Partida, Nadia ; Patil, Suarabh ; Pena, Jean Carlos ; Petters, Markus D. ; Phoenix, Daniel B. ; Puthserry, Joseph V. ; Rapp, Anita D. ; Romps, David M. ; Roots, Maurice ; Rosenfeld, Daniel ; Saleeby, Stephen M. ; Savala, Paul ; Sedlacek, Arthur J. ; Sharma, Milind ; Sheesley, Rebeccca ; Shingler, Taylor J. ; Shrestha, Sujan ; Singh, Ashish ; Smith, Elizabeth N. ; Smith, James N. ; Smith, Scott ; Snyder, Jeffrey ; Spicer, Elizabeth ; Spinei, Elena ; Spychala, Mark ; Steir, Philip ; Storm, Michelle R. ; Subba, Tamanna ; Treserras, B. Puigdomenech ; Trojanowski, Rebecca ; Theisen, Adam ; Thompson, Seth A. ; Twigg, Laurence ; Uin, Janek ; Ulinski, Alexandra R. ; van den Heever, Susan ; van Lier-Walqui, Marcus ; Varble, Adam C. ; Wagner, Timothy J. ; Wakeen, Jeremy ; Wales, Nathan A. ; Walter, Paul J. ; Wang, Die ; Wang, Jian ; Wood, Lance ; Wang, Yuxuan ; Wolde, Mengistu ; Yoon, Subin ; Young, Michael H. ; Zawadowicz, Maria A. ; Zhang, Qi ; Zhou, Aifang ; Zhu, Zeen ; Zhu, Zihan
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; CIWRO (Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations) ; NSSL (National Severe Storms Laboratory) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory)
• Description:
  A multi-agency succession of field campaigns was conducted in southeastern Texas during July 2021 through October 2022 to study the complex interactions of aerosols, clouds and air pollution in the coastal urban environment. As part of the Tracking Aerosol Convection interactions Experiment (TRACER), the TRACER- Air Quality (TAQ) campaign the Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE) and the Convective Cloud Urban Boundary Layer Experiment (CUBE), a combination of ground-based supersites and mobile laboratories, shipborne measurements and aircraft-based instrumentation were deployed. These diverse platforms collected high-resolution data to characterize the aerosol microphysics and chemistry, cloud and precipitation micro- and macro-physical properties, environmental thermodynamics and air quality-relevant constituents that are being used in follow-on analysis and modeling activities. We present the overall deployment setups, a summary of the campaign conditions and a sampling of early research results related to: (a) aerosol precursors in the urban environment, (b) influences of local meteorology on air pollution, (c) detailed observations of the sea breeze circulation, (d) retrieved supersaturation in convective updrafts, (e) characterizing the convective updraft lifecycle, (f) variability in lightning characteristics of convective storms and (g) urban influences on surface energy fluxes. The work concludes with discussion of future research activities highlighted by the TRACER model-intercomparison project to explore the representation of aerosol-convective interactions in high-resolution simulations.
• Source:
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2025)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0331.1
• ISSN:
  0003-0007 ; 1520-0477
• Format:
  pdf
• Publisher:
  American Meteorological Society
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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  urn:sha-512:24e441f82cc7a0ce7671dace586a57d18630926e260b4e1b27d66e0fbdbfcdce859b985e9419e23e5cb0cfca5a214bf28ec430f751e6422a8a3116e6d388cdc4
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