Name: S. Marcela Lora-Salazar Title: Understanding the Symbiotic Relationship Affecting Atmospheric Processes and Air Quality Location: NWC 5930 Date: 2019/11/06 Time: 3:00 PM Series: Weather and Climate Systems Abstract: In the last decades, multiple agencies have targeted AQ as an important research field due to the effect of AQ on climate
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November 6, 2019 - 3:00 pm
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November 6, 2019 - 4:00 pm
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Weather and Climate SystemsName: S. Marcela Lora-Salazar
Title: Understanding the Symbiotic Relationship Affecting Atmospheric Processes and Air Quality
Location: NWC 5930
Date: 2019/11/06
Time: 3:00 PM
Series: Weather and Climate Systems
Abstract: In the last decades, multiple agencies have targeted AQ as an important research field due to the effect of AQ on climate change and health. For example, the 2017 Decadal Survey (DS) for Earth Observations from Space identified air composition as a cutting-edge field between traditional weather research and studies of the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Therefore, agencies like NASA, the Health Effects Institute (HEI), EPA, and NOAA have promoted the investigation of air pollution transport and transformation in response to meteorological conditions. In this regard, the CLoud-CLimatE-Aerosol-Radiation (CL)2EAR Research Group in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma has started the investigation of air pollution and climate as one of the main research areas. The air pollution division from the (CL)2EAR Research Group has worked on a broad range of topics relevant to atmospheric composition, including 1) the impact of weather on aerosol physical properties and aerosol transport, 2) evaluation of aerosol satellite retrievals, 3) air quality modeling, 4) aerosol/gas precursor processes and transport phenomena within the atmosphere and 5) understanding aerosol optics, transport and dispersion from wildfire events. This weather seminar will provide research in progress from the (CL)2EAR Research Group about the multi-disciplinary understanding of the atmospheric processes related to AQ events, which must encompass an evaluation/assimilation of air pollution retrieval products and weather models necessary to achieve the goals of the DS assessment mentioned above.