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BBOP
Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP)
1 July 2013 - 24 October 2013
Lead Scientist: Larry Kleinman
Observatory: AAF , OSC
This field campaign addressed multiple uncertainties in aerosol intensive properties, which are poorly represented in climate models, by means of aircraft measurements in biomass burning plumes. Key topics investigated were:- Aerosol mixing state and morphology
- Mass absorption coefficients (MACs)
- Chemical composition of non-refractory material associated with light-absorbing carbon (LAC)
- Production rate of secondary organic aerosol (SOA)
- Microphysical processes relevant to determining aerosol size distributions and single scattering albedo (SSA)
- CCN activity.
- SOA Formation Rates
- Structure and/or Configuration of Biomass Burn Aerosol Particles
- Aerosol Light Absorption
- Composition of Brown Carbon (BrC)
- Time Evolution of the Composition of Refractory Black Carbon (rBC)
- Determination of Mass Absorption Coefficients (MAC)
- Determination of the Time-Series for Coagulation and Condensation
- CCN Evolution, and Relation to Condensed Organics
- Radiative Transfer of Biomass Burns.
- Constrain processes and parameterizations in a detailed Lagrangian model to reproduce the time-dependent microphysics and chemistry of aerosol evolution
- Incorporate time evolution information into a single-column radiative model as a first step in translating observations into a forcing per unit mass carbon burned.
Co-Investigators
William Arnott
Jeffrey Gaffney
Ernie Lewis
Wuyin Lin
Hans Moosmuller
Timothy Onasch
John Shilling
Jian Wang
Rahul Zaveri
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