Agriculture-Atmosphere Interactions Posters

Monday, 13 January 2025: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair:
Cochairs:
Amy Sullivan and Reem Aida Hannun, UMBC, JCET, Baltimore, MD

Agriculture influences Earth’s atmosphere by enhancing emissions of reactive and greenhouse gases, altering the land surfaces available for dry deposition of pollutants, and modifying the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, water, and energy. At the same time, atmospheric composition affects agriculture via increased exposure to phytotoxic gases like ozone and aerosol-induced changes in solar radiation and precipitation. These connections range in scale from the process-level to the global carbon and nitrogen cycles, and variability is exacerbated by acute and chronic environmental stressors such as extreme weather, increasing temperatures, and prolonged drought. The emissions and sequestration of gases like NOx, NH3, N2O, CO2, and CH4 from agriculture are an important emerging area of atmospheric and climate science.

This session invites presentations on all aspects of the coupled agrosphere-atmosphere system, including laboratory and field studies of key processes, model-based investigations of multi-system interactions and feedbacks, analysis of satellite remote sensing products, validation of emissions inventories, and extensions to economic, air quality, and climate impacts. Topics can include but are not limited to: emissions ratios, eddy covariance fluxes, gas-aerosol partitioning, aerosol composition, deposition, sequestration, fluctuations with meteorological conditions, and impacts to sensitive ecosystems. Given this year’s theme of “Towards a Thriving Planet”, we particularly welcome presentations that emphasize the sharing of knowledge, tools, and techniques to understand the intersectionality of food and energy production, resource management, policy, and economic impacts in a changing climate.

Papers:
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Quantifying Soil Emission Rates of Carbon Dioxide using Nighttime Observations of Atmospheric Pooling
Joel Oetting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and B. B. Hicks and N. Eash

86
The Importance of Ammonia and Nitrous Oxide in Receptor Models of Agriculturally Impacted Regions: A Case Study Using Airborne Observations in California’s Central Valley During AEROMMA
Ilana Pollack, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO; Univ. of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and E. R. Lill, J. R. Roscioli, N. Schafer, J. Peischl, A. Rollins, E. Waxman, K. Zuraski, A. Middlebrook, S. Albertin, A. Piasecki, J. Gilman, V. A. Treadaway, M. Selby, C. Stockwell, M. M. Coggon, K. Bates, C. Warneke, E. V. Fischer, and S. S. Brown

87
Developing a Network for Measuring Regional-Scale Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Timothy J. Griffis, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; and J. Baker

88
Simultaneously Measuring Changes in Methane and Ammonia Emissions Resulting from Altering Beef Cattle Diet
Nathan Martin Sweet, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and N. Malarich, G. Mead, C. B. Weerasekara, H. Johnson, K. Cossel, S. Welch, B. DePaola, C. Blaga, I. Coddington, J. Farney, S. Sexton-Bowser, J. Drouillard, E. Santos, and B. Washburn

89
Jack Rabbit III: Hazard Assessment of Factors Affecting Airborne Ammonia Plume Dispersion
Steven R. Hanna, PhD, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and S. McMasters and R. G. Meris

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