89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 5: Aerosol direct and indirect effects

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Gregory Leptoukh, NASA
Papers:
  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
  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. R. 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