Session 5 |
| | Aerosol direct and indirect effects |
| | Chair: Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Direct aerosol radiative effect estimated with OMI, MISR and CERES observations over northern Africa
Eun-Su Yang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and P. Gupta and S. Christopher |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Lower tropospheric heating by Saharan dust over the tropical Atlantic Ocean 
Sun Wong, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler, N. Mahowald, P. Yang, and Q. Feng |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Examination of the Arizona precipitation record for evidence of precipitation suppression by air pollution aerosols 
Israel L. Jirak, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and A. Keith |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Large-scale link between African aerosols and precipitation in the West African Monsoon
Jingfeng Huang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang and J. M. Prospero |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Multi-Satellite Observations of Aerosol, Ice Clouds and Precipitation Relations over Asia
Jonathon H. Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, S. Massie, and M. Schoeberl |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | Regional Studies of Spatio-temporal Correlations Between Aerosols and Clouds
Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and V. Zubko, R. Levy, and A. Gopalan |