Trace gases, aerosol particles, and clouds interact with each other in complex ways and pose challenges in terms of how best to simulate their spatiotemporal profiles. Such information is relevant for (but not limited to) public health, weather, and climate.
Surface and airborne measurements provide a way to increase understanding of these atmospheric components and their rapidly changing 3-D distributions in the atmosphere. This talk will present on selected science outcomes from recent field work in diverse regions including the semi-arid Southwest U.S., the Arctic, and tropical and sub-tropical marine regions. Of particular focus will be aerosol-cloud interactions, which are linked to the largest uncertainty in estimates of total anthropogenic radiative forcing. Additionally, lessons learned from 20 years of field work will also be presented.
Armin Sorooshian,
University of Arizona
Armin Sorooshian is a Professor and University Distinguished Scholar in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona. Starting from his doctoral work at Caltech in Chemical Engineering, he has 20 years of experience in instrument development, field work, laboratory characterization experiments, and data analysis targeting air pollutants, clouds, and precipitation.
Since 2004, he has been involved in 18 airborne field projects, with seven as a mission PI including ACTIVATE, which is an Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS) NASA mission. Armin has over 270 peer-reviewed publications and has graduated 24 Ph.D. students. Armin is a recipient of AGU’s Joanne Simpson Medal and is a Fellow of AGU and AAAS.