Session: Initial Results from MILAGRO and Texas2006 (87th AMS Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 16 January 2007: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

212A (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Cochairs: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas and V. Rao Kotamarthi, ANL

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

Vertical variation of nocturnal nitrogen chemistry in Mexico City during MILAGRO

Jochen Stutz, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and L. Lawrence, O. Pikelnaya, and S. C. Hurlock

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

Aerosol Residence Times in Mexico City

Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and N. A. Marley, N. C. Sturchio, and N. Martinez

9:00 AM

1.3

Rain Event Impacts on Aerosol Optical Properties: Mexico City 2003 and 2006

Nancy A. Marley, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and J. S. Gaffney

9:15 AM

1.4

Evolution of aerosol hygroscopicity in the Mexico City plume

Jason M. Tomlinson, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. Li, R. J. Osborn, and D. R. Collins

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

1.5

Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar aerosol measurements during MILAGRO and TexAQS/GoMACCS

Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair, A. L. Cook, D. B. Harper, S. Burton, A. Clarke, P. B. Russell, and J. Redemann

Poster PDF (268.6 kB)

9:45 AM

1.5a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM

1.6

Air Quality forecast using WRF/NMM-CMAQ during the TexAQS 2006

Pius C. Lee, NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. A. McKeen, J. McQueen, D. Kang, M. Tsidulko, S. Lu, H. M. Lin, G. DiMego, N. Seaman, and P. M. Davidson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (320.7 kB)

11:15 AM

1.7

Study of high pollution events in the Houston - Galveston area using CMAQ simulations with an extended version of SAPRC99 chemical mechanism

Beata Czader, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun and S. Kim

11:30 AM

1.8

Trajectory Analysis for Source-receptor Relation of High O3 events over Houston/Galveston Area during Summer 2005

Fong Ngan, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Byun

11:45 AM

1.9

A numerical study to understand impact of meteorological fields on Houston's high O3 problem using CMAQ/MM5