Session 8B Regional Air Quality VII

Tuesday, 14 January 2025: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizer:
Cochairs:
Matthew M Coggon, NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO and Yang Li

Air quality is a global public health challenge with regionally-specific drivers and control strategies. Variations in meteorology and climate coupled with emission source types and atmospheric chemical processes lead to diverse air quality impacts at regional scale. This session solicits submissions from observational and modeling studies on air pollution in different regions around the world. Observational studies that include remote sensing, in-situ measurements, analysis from recent field intensives or a combination of these approaches are encouraged. Laboratory studies of important atmospheric chemical processes and progress toward the development of chemical mechanisms are also of interest. Modeling studies that use observations and laboratory data to improve predictive skills of air quality are welcome. Relevant air quality issues include, but are not limited to, near-surface ozone, fine particles, hazardous air pollutants, emerging/understudied pollution sources, smoke from wild and prescribed fires, visibility, regional haze, air quality-climate interactions, emissions and trends, and inequities in pollutant exposure and health impacts.

Papers:
4:30 PM
8B.1
Interpreting Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Trends in South Korea, 2011-2022
Drew Pendergrass, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and D. J. Jacob, Y. J. Oak, R. Dang, L. H. Yang, E. Beaudry, N. Colombi, S. Zhai, H. Kim, J. S. Choi, J. S. Park, S. Kim, and H. Liao

4:45 PM
8B.2
Enhancing PM2.5 Forecasts with Machine Learning: Comparative Analysis of Global and Regional Models Integrated with Low-Cost Sensor Networks
Duvan Ariel Nieves, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, ANT, Colombia; Early Warning System of Medellín and the Aburrá Valley - SIATA, Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia; Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia; and K. S. S. Hernandez, P. Montoya, J. S. Perez-Carrasquilla, M. D. Zuluaga, M. Ramirez, and A. Z. Orrego

5:00 PM
8B.3
5:15 PM
8B.4
Reversal of Trends in Black Carbon Concentrations across the United States
Racine Nassau, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. Jaegle

5:30 PM
8B.5
Constraining Atmospheric Sulfate Formation in the Northeastern US: Insights from Sulfur Isotopes
Wendell Walters, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and A. Baer, H. Kim, H. Pye, K. Foley, and M. G. Hastings

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