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|bgcolor="#CCCCCC"|'''Aerosols Working Group Co-Chairs'''
!width="300px" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"|Aerosols Working Group Co-Chairs
|[http://web.mit.edu/heald/www/ Colette Heald], [http://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/ Jeff Pierce]
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*[http://www.atmos.washington.edu/blog/beckya/becky-alexander/ Becky Alexander] (GitHub: [https://github.com/beckyalexander @beckyalexander])
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*[http://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/people.htm#jeff Jeff Pierce] (GitHub: [https://github.com/theloniuspunk @theloniuspunk])
|<tt>geos-chem-aerosols [at] seas.harvard.edu</tt>
*[https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wporter Will Porter] (Github [https://github.com/wporter @wporter])
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*[http://www.albany.edu/~yfq/ Fangqun Yu]
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|Beijing/SUNY
|Beijing/SUNY-Albany/L'Aquila
|Representing GEOS-Chem in the AEROCOM intercomparisons
|Representing GEOS-Chem in the AEROCOM intercomparisons
|[mailto:mayfu@pku.edu.cn May Fu] <br>[mailto:yfq@asrc.cestm.albany.edu Fangqun Yu]
|[mailto:mayfu@pku.edu.cn May Fu] <br>[mailto:fyu@albany.edu Fangqun Yu]<br>[mailto:gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it Gabriele Curci]
|28 Jul 2010
|28 Jul 2010
|-
|-
|CU Boulder
|Columbia University
|Inverse modeling of inorganic PM2.5 precursors.  Direct aerosol radiative forcing.
|Multiphase SOA formation in GEOS-Chem
|[mailto:daven.henze@colorado.edu Daven Henze]
|[mailto:vfm2103@columbia.edu Faye McNeill]  
|19 Apr 2009
|23 Apr 2015
|-
|CMU
|Development of aerosol microphysics. Represented aerosols include size-resolved aerosol numbers and multi-component mass species, including sulfate, sea-salt, OM, EC, and dust. Evaluation against field campaign, e.g. ACE-Asia.
|[mailto:petera@andrew.cmu.edu Peter Adams]<br>[mailto:dwesterv@andrew.cmu.edu Dan Westervelt]
|23 Apr 2009
|-
|Colorado State University
|Aerosol microphysics: effects of nucleation, emissions and SOA on aerosol size distribution
|[mailto:jeffrey.robert.pierce@gmail.com Jeff Pierce]
|03 Jan 2011
|-
|Colorado State University
|Aerosol microphysics: Combustion aerosol microphysics, optical properties and radiative forcings
|[mailto:jkodros@atmos.colostate.edu Jack Kodros]
|03 Jan 2011
|-
|Dalhousie
|Optimal estimation satellite retrieval of aerosols
|[mailto:Aaron.van.Donkelaar@dal.ca Aaron van Donkelaar]
|26 Sep 2012
|-
|-
|Dalhousie
|Dalhousie
|Global aerosol speciation
|Decadal trends in PM2.5
|[mailto:philip.sajeev@gmail.com Sajeev Philip]
|[mailto:ch296755@dal.ca Chi Li]
|26 Sep 2012
|13 Apr 2017
|-
|Dalhousie/Tsinghua
|Historical trends in Asian PM2.5 and emissions
|[mailto:ggn220@gmail.com Guannan Geng]
|26 Sep 2012
|-
|-
|Dalhousie
|Dalhousie
|Simulation of the absorbing aerosol index
|Arctic aerosol number distributions
|[mailto:mhammer17@hotmail.com Melanie Hammer]
|26 Sep 2012
|-
|Dalhousie
|Diurnal variation in North American aerosol
|[mailto:Andrew.Morrow@Dal.Ca Andrew Morrow]
|26 Sep 2012
|-
|Dalhousie
|Sensitivity of global PM2.5 to sources
|[mailto:colin.lee@dal.ca Colin Lee]
|26 Sep 2012
|-
|Dalhousie
|Aerosol microphysics simulation of AOD and PM2.5
|[mailto:AR731886@DAL.CA Arjya Sarkar]
|26 Sep 2012
|-
|Dalhousie
|Aerosol scavenging, nuclear accident simulation (137-CS, 133-XE)
|[mailto:croft@mathstat.dal.ca Betty Croft]
|[mailto:croft@mathstat.dal.ca Betty Croft]
|03 Jan 2013
|13 Apr 2017
|-
|-
|Dalhousie
|Dalhousie
|Satellite-based estimates of Asian PM2.5
|Arctic black carbon
|[mailto:jn231250@dal.ca Junwei Xu]
|[mailto:jn231250@dal.ca Junwei Xu]
|26 Sep 2012
|13 Apr 2017
|-
|-
|Dalhousie
|Dalhousie
|Historical trends in global satellite-derived estimates of PM2.5  
|Metals in PM2.5  
|[mailto:briboys@gmail.com Brian Boys]
|[mailto:jn231250@dal.ca Junwei Xu]
|27 Apr 2011
|13 Apr 2017
|-
|-
|Dalhousie
|Dalhousie
|Historical (1980-) trends in aerosol speciation in North America 
|Interpreting SPARTAN to understand PM2.5 chemical composition
|[mailto:nt662202@Dal.Ca Nathaniel Egan-Pimblett]
|[mailto:cr330325@dal.ca Crystal Weagle]
|27 Apr 2011
|13 April 2017
|-
|-
|Dalhousie
|Dalhousie
|Assimilation of CALIOP vertical profiles
|Aerosol mass scattering efficiency
|[mailto:colin.lee@dal.ca Colin Lee]
|[mailto:Robyn.Latimer@Dal.Ca Robyn Latimer]
|5 Dec 2013
|13 April 2017
|-
|Dalhousie
|Simulation of heavy metals in PM
|[mailto:fr526565@dal.ca Farhan Khan]
|5 Dec 2013
|-
|-
|Harvard
|Harvard
|Aerosol scavenging in continental outflow; intercontinental transport and dissipation of pollution plumes
|Particulate sulfur via sulfur-formaldehyde (hydroxymethane sulfonate) chemistry in clouds
|[mailto:kim68@fas.harvard.edu Sungshik Kim]
|[mailto:jmoch@g.harvard.edu Jonathan Moch]
|13 Jul 2010
|14 Dec 2018
|-
|-
|Harvard
|MIT/Harvard
|Irreversible uptake of isoprene SOA; estimate of organic aerosol yields with satellite observations
|Implementing MOSAIC aerosols into GEOS-Chem
|[mailto:emarais@seas.harvard.edu Eloise Marais]
|[mailto:seastham@mit.edu Sebastian Eastham]
|27 April 2014
|11 May 2015
|-
|-
|MIT
|MIT
|PM2.5 concentrations and health impacts, including future emissions trends
|Developing a simulation of bioaerosol
|[mailto:selin@mit.edu Noelle Selin]
|[mailto:janssen@mit.edu Ruud Janssen]
|29 Jun 2010
|12 Apr 2017
|-
|-
|MIT
|MIT
|Examining long term trends of dust in the tropics
|Investigating spread in carbonaceous aerosol impacts from fires due to emissions uncertainty
|[mailto:daridley@mit.edu Dave Ridley]
|[mailto:tscarter@mit.edu Tess Carter]
|10 April 2012
|29 Apr 2019
|-
|-
|MIT
|MIT
|Investigating sub-grid variability and scale invariance of dust emissions
|Testing OA simulation schemes against suite of airborne observations
|[mailto:daridley@mit.edu Dave Ridley]
|[mailto:sidhantp@mit.edu Sid Pai]
|25 Sep 2012
|29 Apr 2019
|-
|-
|MIT
|MIT
|Integrating RRTMG in GEOS-Chem (LW and SW, gases and aerosols), evaluating aerosol forcing
|Exploring aerosol simulation against remote observations from ATom
|[mailto:daridley@mit.edu Dave Ridley]<br>[mailto:heald@mit.edu Colette Heald]
|[mailto:chloegao@mit.edu Chloe Gao]
|25 Sep 2012
|29 Apr 2019
|-
|-
|MIT
|SUNY-Albany
|Investigating impact of black carbon aging and mixing on radiative forcing
|Effects of size-resolved aerosol microphysics on aerosol radiative forcing and chemistry
|[mailto:xuanw12@mit.edu Xuan Wang]
|[mailto:fyu@albany.edu Fangqun Yu]<br>[mailto:gluo@albany.edu Gan Luo]
|25 Sep 2012
|5 May 2015
|-
|-
|MIT
|SUNY-Albany
|Investigating NHx system (GEOS-Chem compared to surface, CalNex and IASI observations)
|Combining Measurements and Model Simulations of Particle Size Distributions to Improve Our Understanding of Particle Formation and Growth
|[mailto:schiferl@mit.edu Luke Schiferl]
|[mailto:fyu@albany.edu Fangqun Yu]<br>[mailto:gluo@albany.edu Gan Luo]
|20 May 2010
|4 May 2017
|-
|-
|MIT
|SUNY-Albany
|Developing a scheme to describe the aging of organic aerosol
|Long-Term Trend of Particle Number Concentrations: Controlling Processes and Implications
|[mailto:qichen@mit.edu Qi Chen]
|[mailto:fyu@albany.edu Fangqun Yu]<br>[mailto:gluo@albany.edu Gan Luo]
|8 Apr 2013
|4 May 2017
|-
|MIT
|Impact of 2000-2050 changes in climate, vegetation and land use on aerosols
|[mailto:pkamostai@gmail.com Amos Tai]
|9 May 2013
|-
|MIT/CU
|Investigating transpacific transport of aerosol and gas-phase pollution.
|[mailto:klapina@atmos.colostate.edu Kateryna Lapina]
|13 Apr 2009
|-
|MIT/CSU
|Investigating aerosols in the Southeastern US
|[mailto:bonne@atmos.colostate.edu Bonne Ford]
|01 Feb 2012
|-
|NASA LaRC
|transpacific transport of dust and sulfate; composition of Asian upper tropopause aerosol layer (ATAL).
|[mailto:t.d.fairlie@nasa.gov Duncan Fairlie]
|10 Apr 2013
|-
|NIA / LaRC
|Radiative effects of aerosols vs. clouds
|[mailto:hyl@nianet.org Hongyu Liu]
|05 Feb 2010
|-
|Peking University
|Carbonaceous aerosols in China
|[mailto:tmfu@pku.edu.cn May Fu]
|01 Jul 2010
|-
|Peking University
|Biomass burning aerosols in South and East Asia
|[mailto:tmfu@pku.edu.cn May Fu]
|01 Jul 2010
|-
|Peking University
|Estimate of interdecadal variation in direct radiative effect of aerosols over global lands
|[mailto:linjt@pku.edu.cn Jintai Lin]
|01 Nov 2010
|-
|Peking University
|Anthropogenic dust and impacts on global environment
|[mailto:linjt@pku.edu.cn Jintai Lin]
|01 May 2011
|-
|University of Athens-National Observatory of Athens (Greece)
|Study of aerosols over Europe and Greece by coupling Geos-chem (v8-03-01) with Camx
|[mailto:aprot@phys.uoa.gr Anna Protonotariou]
|01 Jul 2010
|-
|UNL
|aerosol retrieval from satellite, aerosol direct and indirect effect.
|[mailto:jwang7@unl.edu Jun Wang]
|22 Apr 2009
|-
|University of L'Aquila
|Participation in organic aerosol AEROCOM intercomparison (v8.02.02 of GEOS-Chem)
|[mailto:gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it Gabriele Curci]
|24 Jun 2009
|-
|University of L'Aquila
|Development of a post-processing tool for aerosol optical properties computations
|[mailto:gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it Gabriele Curci]
|20 Jan 2011
|-
|-
|UW
|UW
|Investigating the chemistry of sulfate and nitrate aerosol formation utilizing observations and modeling of oxygen isotopes
|Sources of sea salt aerosol in polar regions: Blowing snow and Frost flowers
|[mailto:beckya@uw.edu Becky Alexander]
|[mailto:jiayue@uw.edu Jiayue Huang] <br>[mailto:jaegle@uw.edu Lyatt Jaeglé]
|30 Jun 2010
|22 Apr 2015
|-
|-
|UW
|UW
|Developing a new parameterization of sea-salt emissions and dry deposition
|Sea salt aerosols and their effects on global tropospheric chemistry
|[mailto:jaegle@uw.edu Lyatt Jaegl&eacute;]
|[mailto:jaegle@uw.edu Lyatt Jaeglé]<br> [mailto:jiayue@uw.edu Jiayue Huang]
|01 Jul 2010
|22 Apr 2015
|-
|-
|UW
|Transport of aerosols to the Arctic using CALIOP observations
|[mailto:dipierro@uw.edu Maurizio DiPierro]
|01 Jul 2010
|-
|-
|UW
|UW
|Long-range transport of aerosols from Asia and N. America
|Sulfate formation via oxidation of SO2 by hypohalous acids (e.g., HOBr)
|[mailto:yrluan@uw.edu Yurong Luan]
|[mailto:beckya@uw.edu Becky Alexander]<br> [mailto:chenqjie@uw.edu Qianjie Chen]
|01 Jul 2010
|22 April 2015
|-
|-
|SNU
|University of Wollongong
|Evaluation of regional aerosol simulations with the nested G-C over East Asia
|Characterizing interannual variability of Australian dust export and deposition
|[mailto:rjpark@snu.ac.kr Rokjin Park]
|[mailto:jwg366@uowmail.edu.au Jesse Greenslade]<br> [mailto:jennyf@uow.edu.au Jenny Fisher]
|15 Sep 2009
|23 April 2015
|-
|-
|SNU
|L'Aquila
|Implement the VBS method in GEOS-Chem for SOA
|Analysis of aerosol optical properties using FlexAOD
|[mailto:rjpark@snu.ac.kr Rokjin Park]<br>[mailto:cdswk@snu.ac.kr Dusung Jo]
|[mailto:gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it Gabriele Curci]
|28 Sep 2012
|16 Apr 2017
|-
|-
|SNU
|L'Aquila
|Siberian forest fire aerosols and climatic effects
|AeroCom phase-3 intercomparisons: Biomass Burning, INSITU, Remote Sensing
|[mailto:rjpark@snu.ac.kr Rokjin Park]<br>[mailto:hb3099@hotmail.com Seungeun Lee]
|[mailto:gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it Gabriele Curci]
|28 Sep 2012
|16 Apr 2017
|-
|-
|SUNY-Albany
|L'Aquila
|Formation and evolution of particles in the troposphere
|Direct and first indirect effect of anthropogenic dust
|[mailto:yfq@asrc.cestm.albany.edu Fangqun Yu]
|[mailto:gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it Gabriele Curci]
|06 Mar 2010
|16 Apr 2017
 
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|}
 
== Recent GEOS-Chem updates related to aerosols ==
 
We have added the following updates pertaining to aerosols to recent GEOS-Chem versions:
 
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
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!width="75px"|Version
!width="75px"|Released
!width="600px"|Description
!width="200px"|Contact
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-02|v9-02]]
|Mar 2014
|[[Secondary organic aerosols#SOA simulation with semi-volatile POA|Expansion of SOA option (SOA + nonvolatile POA)]]
|Havala Pye (formerly Caltech, now EPA)
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-02|v9-02]]
|Mar 2014
|[[Sulfate_aerosols#Cloud_water_pH_for_sulfate_formation|Cloud water pH for sulfate formation]]
|Becky Alexander (U. Washington)
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-02|v9-02]]
|Mar 2014
|[[Aerosol_optical_properties#Better_representation_of_OC_growth_with_RH_and_correction_to_sulfate_optics|Better representation of OC growth with RH and correction to sulfate optics]]
|David Ridley (MIT)<br>Randall Martin (Dalhousie)
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-02|v9-02]]
|Mar 2014
|[[Aerosol_optical_properties#Fix_to_jv_spec_aod.dat|Bug fix in jv_spec_aod.dat for dust species]]
|Gabriele Curci (U. L'Aquila)
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-02|v9-02]]
|Mar 2014
|[[Sea_salt_aerosols#Update_molecular_weight_of_sea_salt_tracers|Update molecular weight of sea salt tracers]]
|Colette Heald (MIT)
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-03|v9-01-03]]
|Sep 2012
|[[Mineral_dust_aerosols#Sub-micron_dust_mass_partitioning_change|Dust submicron size distribution for optics]]
|Dave Ridley, CSU
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-03|v9-01-03]]
|Sep 2012
|Modifications to sea salt [[Sea_salt_aerosols#SST_dependent_sea_salt_emissions|emissions]] and [[Sea_salt_aerosols#Updates_to_sea_salt_dry_deposition|dry deposition]]
|Lyatt Jaegle and Becky Alexander, U Washington
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-03|v9-01-03]]
|Sep 2012
|Various updates to wet deposition to impact aerosol simulation, see [http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/Wet_deposition#Further_updates Wet Deposition Further Updates]
|Qiaoqiao Wang, Harvard
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-02|v9-01-02]]
|Nov 2011
|Implementation of [[APM aerosol microphysics]] model
|Fangqun Yu, SUNY Albany<br>Gan Luo, SUNY Albany
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-02|v9-01-02]]
|Nov 2011
|[[GEOS-Chem_v9-01-01#Inconsistencies_in_aerosol_diagnostics|Removing inconsistencies in aerosol diagnostics]]
|Sungshik Patrick Kim, Harvard
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-02|v9-01-02]]
|Nov 2011
|[[Dry_deposition#Aerosol_dry_deposition_velocities_over_snow_and_ice_surfaces|Updated aerosol dry deposition velocities over snow and ice surfaces]]
|Jenny Fisher, Harvard
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-02|v9-01-02]]
|Nov 2011
|[[Anthropogenic_emissions#Streets_2000|Added seasonality to Streets NH3 emissions over Asia]]
|Jenny Fisher, Harvard
 
|-valign="top"
|[[GEOS-Chem v9-01-01|v9-01-01]]
|Jun 2011
|[[FlexAOD]] post-processing tool for the community
|Gabriele Curci, University of l'Aquila
 
|}
 
--[[User:Melissa Payer|Melissa Sulprizio]] 11:14, 17 January 2014 (EST)
 
== On-going Aerosol Working Group Developments ==
 
We plan to add these aerosol-related updates to GEOS-Chem in the next few releases:
 
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
|-bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"
!width="600px"|Update
!width="200px"|Authors
!width="200px"|Planned release
|-valign="top"
|[[Coupling GEOS-Chem with RRTMG|Integrating a radiative transfer model into GEOS-Chem]]
|Colette Heald (MIT)<br>David Ridley (MIT)<br>Karen Cady-Pereira (AER)<br>Matt Alvarado (AER)
|
*Delivered to [[GEOS-Chem Support Team|GCST]]
*Slated for inclusion into [[GEOS-Chem v10-01|v10-01]]
|-valign="top"
|[[Mineral dust aerosols#Surface chemistry on dust|Simplified description of uptake of SO2, nitric acid and sulfuric acid on mineral dust]]
|Duncan Fairlie, Langley
|
*Delivered to [[GEOS-Chem Support Team|GCST]]
*Slated for inclusion into [[GEOS-Chem v10-01|v10-01]]
|}
 
--[[User:Bmy|Bob Y.]] 15:05, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
 
== Future Development Priorities ==
 
These are topics which were raised at IGC6 as future updates & development priorities for GEOS-Chem which have not yet been incorporated into the standard code:
 
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
|-bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"
!width="600px"|Update
!width="200px"|Authors
!width="200px"|Priority
 
|-valign="top"
|Addition of effective wind speed to met fields for consistent resolution dust/sea salt emissions
|Jeff Pierce (CSU)<br>David Ridley (MIT)<br>[[GEOS-Chem Support Team|GCST]]
|medium
 
|-valign="top"
|Addition of deposition observations to aerosol benchmark
|Colette Heald (MIT)
|low
 
|-valign="top"
|dust simulation expansion (tagged simulation, oxalate, P, Fe chemistry)
|Matthew Johnson (NC State)
|low
 
|-valign="top"
|DMS oxidation scheme updating
|TBD
|low
 
|-valign="top"
|Investigation of how aerosol water is treated in PM comparisons (ISORROPIA vs. hygroscopic growth curves)
|TBD
|low
 
|-valign="top"
|APM capability for nested grid
|Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany)
|
 
|-valign="top"
|TOMAS capability for nested grid
|Jeff Pierce (Dalhousie)
|
 
|-valign="top"
|Tagged sulfate and nitrate simulation
|Becky Alexander (U. Washington)
|
 
|-valign="top"
|Improved dust simulation in nested-grid model
|Rokjin Park (Seoul National University)
|
 
|}
 
--[[User:Bmy|Bob Y.]] 15:04, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
 
== Aerosol optical properties ==
 
Please visit our [[Aerosol optical properties|aerosol optical properties wiki page]] for more information about:
 
# [http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/~heald/docs/GEOS_Chem_optics_description.pdf  Description of GEOS-Chem aerosol optics]
# [[Aerosol optical properties#Aerosol optical properties update for GEOS-Chem v8-03-01|Aerosol optical properties update for v8-03-01]]
# [[Aerosol optical properties#Aerosol optical properties at high spectral resolution|Aerosol optical properties at high spectral resolution]]
 
Here is a list of updates that were considered when this was last reviewed in 2010 (2, 4 and 5 are included in the [[GEOS-Chem v8-03-01|v8-03-01]] update):
 
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
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!width="600px"|Proposed Update (include information on old values if known)
!width="200px"|Reference
!width="200px"|Contact
|-
|-
|Account for absorption in the 300-500 nm range by OC, which may be greater than presently treated.  Currently we have OC ss albedo in this range being > 0.95, though it may be lower than 0.85.
|NIA / NASA LaRC
|[http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/6665/2008/acp-8-6665-2008.pdf Barnard et al, 2008]
|Radiative effects of aerosols versus clouds on key tropospheric oxidants
|[mailto:daven.henze@colorado.edu Daven Henze]  
|[mailto:Hongyu.Liu-1@nasa.gov Hongyu Liu]
|5 May 2015
|-
|-
|Expand Mie table to include more wavelengths.  Most literature values compare at 500 or 550 nm. Current GC lookup table includes 400, then 600.  A wider range is also necessary for integrating to get total SW flux; something greater than 1500 perhaps?
|NIA / NASA LaRC
|[http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/4/183/2004/acp-4-183-2004.html Martin et al, 2004]
|Lifecycle, transport, and distribution of tropospheric aerosols over the western North Atlantic
|[mailto:daven.henze@colorado.edu Daven Henze]  
|[mailto:Hongyu.Liu-1@nasa.gov Hongyu Liu]
|5 May 2015
|-
|-
|Consider using the water content of the fine mode aerosol calculated in the aerosol thermodynamic module rather than hygroscopic growth curves to estimate wet particle effective radius.
|UCLA
|N/A
|Improve black carbon simulations in GEOS-Chem; BC aging microphysics; BC-snow interaction; BC radiative properties;
|[mailto:daven.henze@colorado.edu Daven Henze]  
|[mailto:cenlinhe@atmos.ucla.edu Cenlin He]
|8 May 2015
|-
|-
|Consider changing the "default" AOD diagnostic wavelength from 400 nm to 550nm (for matching with MODIS & CALIPSO)
|UCLA
|N/A
|Black carbon emissions, simulations and its radiative effects over the Arctic
|[mailto:heald@mit.edu Colette Heald]  
|[mailto:qiling@atmos.ucla.edu Ling Qi]
|8 May 2015
|-
|-
|Treat the radius of hydrophylic organic aerosol similar to that of sulfate.  This is based on observations that organic aerosol and sulfate are often internally mixed.  Should we consider something similar for black carbon?   
|UCLA
|[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17219054 Rupkheti et al., 2007]
|Improve aerosol wet scavenging and dry deposition in GEOS-Chem
|[mailto:randall.martin@dal.ca Randall Martin]
|[mailto:qiling@atmos.ucla.edu Ling Qi]<br>[mailto:cenlinhe@atmos.ucla.edu Cenlin He]
|}
|8 May 2015
 
Additional updates to aerosol optics since v8-03-01:
 
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
!width="600px"|Update
!width="200px"|Version Number
!width="200px"|Contact
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|[[#Overhaul of aerosol optical depth diagnostics|Overhaul of AOD diagnostics]]
|v9-01-02
|Patrick Kim (Harvard)
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|[[Mineral dust aerosols#Sub-micron dust mass partitioning change|Dust submicron size distribution for optics]]
|v9-01-03
|David Ridley (CSU, now MIT)
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|[[Aerosol_optical_properties#Fix_to_jv_spec_aod.dat|Bug fix in jv_spec_aod.dat for dust species]]
|v9-02
|Gabriele Curci (l'Aquila)
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|[[Aerosol optical properties#Better representation of OC growth with RH and correction to sulfate optics|Update jv_spec.dat and jv_spec_aod.dat with better representation of OC growth with RH and correction to sulfate optics]]
|v9-02
|Dave Ridley (MIT) and Randall Martin (Dalhousie)
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* [[Aerosol emissions]]
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* [[Carbonaceous aerosols]]
* [[Carbonaceous aerosols]]
* [[Mineral dust aerosols]]
* [[Mineral dust aerosols]]
* [[Secondary organic aerosols]]
* [[Sea salt aerosols]]
* [[Sea salt aerosols]]
* [[Sulfate aerosols]]
* [[Sulfate aerosols]]
* [[ISORROPIA II]]
* [[ISORROPIA II]]
* [[Photolysis mechanism|Photolysis mechanisms in GEOS-Chem]]
* [[Photolysis mechanism|Photolysis mechanisms in GEOS-Chem]]
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Current GEOS-Chem Aerosol Projects, alphabetized by institution (please add yours!)

User Group Description Contact Person Date Added
Beijing/SUNY-Albany/L'Aquila Representing GEOS-Chem in the AEROCOM intercomparisons May Fu
Fangqun Yu
Gabriele Curci 		28 Jul 2010
Columbia University Multiphase SOA formation in GEOS-Chem Faye McNeill 23 Apr 2015
Dalhousie Decadal trends in PM2.5 Chi Li 13 Apr 2017
Dalhousie Arctic aerosol number distributions Betty Croft 13 Apr 2017
Dalhousie Arctic black carbon Junwei Xu 13 Apr 2017
Dalhousie Metals in PM2.5 Junwei Xu 13 Apr 2017
Dalhousie Interpreting SPARTAN to understand PM2.5 chemical composition Crystal Weagle 13 April 2017
Dalhousie Aerosol mass scattering efficiency Robyn Latimer 13 April 2017
Harvard Particulate sulfur via sulfur-formaldehyde (hydroxymethane sulfonate) chemistry in clouds Jonathan Moch 14 Dec 2018
MIT/Harvard Implementing MOSAIC aerosols into GEOS-Chem Sebastian Eastham 11 May 2015
MIT Developing a simulation of bioaerosol Ruud Janssen 12 Apr 2017
MIT Investigating spread in carbonaceous aerosol impacts from fires due to emissions uncertainty Tess Carter 29 Apr 2019
MIT Testing OA simulation schemes against suite of airborne observations Sid Pai 29 Apr 2019
MIT Exploring aerosol simulation against remote observations from ATom Chloe Gao 29 Apr 2019
SUNY-Albany Effects of size-resolved aerosol microphysics on aerosol radiative forcing and chemistry Fangqun Yu
Gan Luo 		5 May 2015
SUNY-Albany Combining Measurements and Model Simulations of Particle Size Distributions to Improve Our Understanding of Particle Formation and Growth Fangqun Yu
Gan Luo 		4 May 2017
SUNY-Albany Long-Term Trend of Particle Number Concentrations: Controlling Processes and Implications Fangqun Yu
Gan Luo 		4 May 2017
UW Sources of sea salt aerosol in polar regions: Blowing snow and Frost flowers Jiayue Huang
Lyatt Jaeglé 		22 Apr 2015
UW Sea salt aerosols and their effects on global tropospheric chemistry Lyatt Jaeglé
Jiayue Huang 		22 Apr 2015
UW Sulfate formation via oxidation of SO2 by hypohalous acids (e.g., HOBr) Becky Alexander
Qianjie Chen 		22 April 2015
University of Wollongong Characterizing interannual variability of Australian dust export and deposition Jesse Greenslade
Jenny Fisher 		23 April 2015
L'Aquila Analysis of aerosol optical properties using FlexAOD Gabriele Curci 16 Apr 2017
L'Aquila AeroCom phase-3 intercomparisons: Biomass Burning, INSITU, Remote Sensing Gabriele Curci 16 Apr 2017
L'Aquila Direct and first indirect effect of anthropogenic dust Gabriele Curci 16 Apr 2017
NIA / NASA LaRC Radiative effects of aerosols versus clouds on key tropospheric oxidants Hongyu Liu 5 May 2015
NIA / NASA LaRC Lifecycle, transport, and distribution of tropospheric aerosols over the western North Atlantic Hongyu Liu 5 May 2015
UCLA Improve black carbon simulations in GEOS-Chem; BC aging microphysics; BC-snow interaction; BC radiative properties; Cenlin He 8 May 2015
UCLA Black carbon emissions, simulations and its radiative effects over the Arctic Ling Qi 8 May 2015
UCLA Improve aerosol wet scavenging and dry deposition in GEOS-Chem Ling Qi
Cenlin He 		8 May 2015

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