| Type(s) |
Project
|
| Owner |
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) |
| Organisation |
PMEL |
| Abstract |
The PMEL atmospheric climate/chemistry program consists of a trace gas (Radiatively Important Trace
Species or RITS) and an aerosol component. The primary objectives of the RITS program are to improve the
quantitative estimates of the oceanic sources and sinks of the major climatically important atmospheric gas
phase species and to understand the physical and biogeochemical processes controlling the oceanic and
atmospheric concentrations of these species. The ultimate goal is to provide the data necessary to initialize
and test global climate models and to reduce the uncertainties in calculating climate forcing on decadal time
scales.
PMEL's aerosol program is designed to study the production of atmospheric aerosol particles from gases that
are emitted from the ocean, the growth and transformation of these particles, their spatial and temporal
variability, and their climatic effects. Ship-based transects yield oceanic-scale distributions of aerosol
chemical, physical, and optical properties. These transects, combined with large-scale process and closure
studies in collaboration with the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project's aerosol
activities, yield data to test aerosol/climate model parameterizations and measurement techniques.
A second component of PMEL's aerosol program is the chemical sampling and analysis of daily samples from
a ground-based aerosol monitoring network. This network has been established in conjunction with
NOAA/Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) to determine means and variability of key
aerosol properties for different aerosol types.
|
| Location |
United States of America
|
| Discipline(s) |
Atmosphere
|
Point of Contact
| Name & Address |
PMEL
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
NOAA/PMEL
7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Bldg 3
Seattle, WA 98115
USA
United States
|
| Phone |
+1 (206) 526-6239 |
| Fax |
+1 (206) 526-6815 |
| E-mail (#at# is @) |
lmccarty#at#pmel.noaa.gov |
| URL |
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ |
Other Information
| Spatial Coverage & Location(s) |
| |
67.735° |
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| 33.805° |
|
33.805° |
| |
67.735° |
|
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| Event date description |
01 Jan 1999 -
|
| Language(s) of Resource |
English
|
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