Total abstracts submitted: 91
Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 91 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS

This symposium solicits updates and new results in areas of mineral dust research, air quality, cloud and climate implications:

1. Dust sources and processes leading to dust suspension and removal
2. In-situ measurements of dust physical and chemical properties (size, shape, concentration, vertical distribution, chemical composition, mineralogy)
3. Optical properties of dust particles and their effects on radiation
4. Remote sensing of dust particles (passive and active remote sensing)
5. Mineral dust effects on aerosols, clouds, and precipitation
6. Modeling of the dust cycle at meso and global scales
7. Impacts of dust on air quality, human health, ecosystems and climate
8. Dust trends from seasonal to paleoclimatic scales

Convener

Designated:
George Kallos,
University of Athens, School of Physics,
Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecasting Group,
University Campus, Bldg PHYS-V, 15784 Athens, Greece;
Tel. +30-210-7276923, 7276835, +30-6944-544325;
Fax. +30-210-8994739, 7276765,
kallos 'at'
mg.uoa.gr, gkallos 'at'
tellas.gr

Accredited:
George Kallos - University of Athens, School of Physics University Campus Bldg PHYS-V, Athens, Greece University of Athens, School of Physics, Department of Applied Physics - kallos 'at'
mg.uoa.gr

Co-Convener

Designated:
Universit Blaise Pascal Laboratoire de Mtorologie Physique, flossman@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr
Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science, zender@uci.edu
Alcide Giorgio di Sarra, ENEA, CLIM-OSS, S. Maria di Galeria, Italy, disarra@casaccia.enea.it

Accredited:
Alcide Di Sarra - IAMAS ACS ENEA - disarra@casaccia.enea.itCharlie Zender - IAMAS Earth System Science University of California, Irvine - zender@uci.edu

Abstract List Schedule

Session 1: Monday 9 July, 2007 from 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Sub-session 1A Monday 09:00 AM to 10:30 AM:
Title: Multi-Scale Models and Measurements of Dust
Chairpersons: Beatrice Marticorena and Charlie Zender

1 Carmichael Gregory R. :
Dust and its Role in Tropospheric Chemistry --- A View from Model, Laboratory and Field Studies. I (30)

2 Perez Carlos :
Long-term simulations (1958-2006) of Saharan dust over the Mediterranean and the Eastern North Atlantic with the DREAM regional dust model C (15)

3 Meloni Daniela :
Seasonal behavior of Saharan dust events at the Mediterranean Island of Lampedusa in the period 1999-2005 C (15)

4 Miller Ron :
Observational Constraints on the Global Dust Aerosol Cycle C (15)

Sub-session 1B Monday 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM:
Title: Dust Production and Emissions
Chairpersons: Corinna Hoose and Peter Knippertz

5 Washington Richard :
Mechanisms of Dust Production from the Bodele, Chad: past and future C (15)

6 Bouet Christel :
Modeled dust cycle of the largest desert dust source in the world, the Bodl depression (Chad) C (15)

7 Schepanski Kerstin :
A new map of Saharan dust emissions based on MSG-IR dust index retrievals with high spatiotemporal resolution C (15)

8 Gillies John :
Potential dust emissions from crusted desert soils C (15)

9 Engelbrecht Johann :
Mineralogy and optical properties of resuspended desert dusts C (15)

Session 2: Monday 9 July, 2007 from 02:00 PM to 05:30 PM

Sub-session 2A Monday 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM:
Title: Dust-Cloud Interactions: Indirect and Semi-Direct Effects
Chairpersons: Antony Clarke and George Kallos

10 Rosenfeld Daniel :
Observations of Sahara desert dust glaciating clouds at -11C compared to -31C for dust-free similar clouds C (15)

11 Koehler Kirsten :
POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF MINERAL DUST AEROSOL ON COLD CLOUD FORMATION C (15)

9 July, 2007 from 02:00 PM to 05:30 PM - Rectorate (details) - Room VIII (details)

12 Gallavardin Stephane :
Compositional trends of mineral ice nuclei: a study at the AIDA chamber C (15)

13 Hoose Corinna :
Global Influence of Dust Mineralogical Composition on Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation C (15)

28 Woodward Stephanie :
Dust - Climate Interactions in a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean GCM C (15)

Sub-session 2B Monday 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM:
Title: Three Minute Oral Summaries of Posters to be viewed 06:00-08:00 PM Tonight
Chairpersons: Jack Gillies and Charlie Zender

15 Moreno Teresa :
GEOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON THE CHEMISTRY OF INHALABLE DESERT DUSTS FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA P (2)

16 Kishcha Pavel :
Saharan dust over the Eastern Mediterranean in spring 2006: Model sensitivity P (2)

17 Matsuki Atsushi :
AGING OF MINERAL DUST: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OVER DESERT AND DOWNWIND REGIONS IN EAST ASIA BASED ON BALLOON AND AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS P (2)

18 Papayannis Alexandros Extra-ordinary dust event over Beijing, China during April 2006: lidar, Sun photometric, satellite observations and model validation P (2)

19 Perez Noemi :
INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN DUST OUTBREAKS ON LEVELS AND COMPOSITION OF PARTICULATE MATTER IN AN URBAN BACKGROUND IN BARCELONA , SPAIN P (2)

20 Fei Liu :
Preliminary Studies on Radiative Properties of Dust Aerosol in North China P (2)

21 Faricelli Cristina :
FORECASTING OF SAHARAN DUST CONTRIBUTION TO PM10 CONCENTRATIONS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE P (2)

22 Shengjie Niu :
Observation study of dust aerosol physical and optical properties over Helan Mountain area in Northwest of China P (2)

23 Mona Lucia :
CHARACTERIZATION OF SAHARAN DUST OPTICAL PROPERTIES WITH A MULTI-WAVELENGHT RAMAN LIDAR P (2)

24 Yoshioka Masaru :
Mineral dust in the last deglaciation P (2)

25 Gallavardin Stephane :
Chemical differentiation of mineral dusts with single particle aerosol mass spectrometry P (2)

26 Castillo Fernndez Sonia :
IMPACT OF AFRICAN DUST IN THE AIR QUALITY OF AN URBAN SITE IN THE CANARY ISLANDS (SPAIN) P (2)

27 Rodriguez-Gonzalez Sergio :
Summertime variability in the aerosol physical properties at izaa free troposphere site: column-integrated versus in-situ measurements of Saharan Dust and North Atlantic free tropospheric aerosols P (2)

29 Yasunari Teppei :
Beautiful seasonal cycles of atmospheric dust and tritium obtained from Mount Wrangell Ice Core, Alaska, in the North Pacific Region and comparison with statistical backward trajectory analysis P (2)

30 Engelstaedter Sebastian :
The impact of changing atmospheric conditions on the variability of summer dust concentration at Barbados: a back-trajectory analysis P (2)

31 Avila Anna :
Dust mineralogy and elemental composition of red rains North-eastern Spain in (1983-2002) P (2)

32 Castillo Fernndez Sonia :
GEOCHEMICAL SPECIATION OF AEOLIAN DUST PARTICLES FROM THE SAHARA-SAHEL DESERTS P (2)

33 Astitha Marina :
Impacts of desert dust on photochemical processes P (2)

34 Qiang Mingrui :
Impacts of wind velocity on sand and dust deposition during dust storm as inferred from a series of observations in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China P (2)

35 Ishizuka Masahide :
Effect of weak crust on saltation mass flux after small precipitation event during JADE IOP P (2)

36 Yoshioka Masaru :
Impact of Desert Dust Radiative Forcing on Sahel Precipitation P (2)

37 Mikami Masao :
Multi-size Saltation Process from fallow-wheat-field in Australia during JADE IOP. P (2)

38 Castillo Fernndez Sonia :
IMPACT OF AFRICAN DUST OUTBREAKS ON THE DRY AND WET DEPOSITION IN THE EASTERN OF SPAIN AND THE CANARY ISLANDS P (2)

39 Heinold Bernd :
Regional modelling of Saharan dust as part of the SAMUM project: Characterisation of dust events in May 2006 using the model LM-MUSCAT P (2)

40 Liu Ming :
Operational High-resolution Dust Storm Forecasting For Southwest Asia P (2)

41 Kandler Konrad :
Size distribution, mineralogical and chemical composition of Saharan mineral dust at Tinfou, Morocco P (2)

42 Garcia Orza Jose Antonio :
A simple method for directional and vertical distribution assessment of airborne coarse particulate matter P (2)

43 Mller Detlef :
Saharan mineral dust experiment (SAMUM) 2006: vertical characterization of mineral dust from LIDAR and sun photometer observations in Morocco P (2)

44 Gobbi Gian Paolo :
Properties and Environmental Impact of Saharan Dust Layers Over Rome (Italy): Observations and Model Results P (2)

45 Box Matthew :
Changes in the flux of Saharan dust to the Eastern Mediterranean. P (2)

46 Marino Federica :
Application of PIXE-PIGE and SEM-EDX methods to the geochemical characterization of micrometric ice dust and continental sediments. P (2)

47 Di Iorio Tatiana :
Seasonal evolution of the vertical profile of desert dust in the central Mediterranean P (2)

48 Garcia Orza Jose Antonio :
Influence of the air mass origin over the aerosol size distribution: a study in SE Spain P (2)

49 Etyemezian Vicken :
Seasonality of dust emission potential at the Salton Sea in California, U.S.A. P (2)

50 Wagner Frank :
CHARACTERIZATION OF SAHARAN DUST PARTICLES OVER PORTUGAL DURING DARPO P (2)

51 Kaskaoutis Dimitris :
Investigation on the impact of dust aerosol on solar radiation P (2)

52 Andrey-Andrs Javier :
SAHARAN DUST VERTICAL EXTINCTION OVER THE ATLANTIC DURING 2005-2006 SUMMER OUTBREAKS P (2)

53 Boselli Antonella :
Study of the saharan dust impact on PM10 levels combining punctual and LIDAR techniques P (2)

54 Mueller Thomas :
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF DUST PARTICLES DURING THE SAHARAN MINERAL DUST EXPERIMENT (SAMUM) P (2)

55 Knippertz Peter :
Synoptic aspects of dust emission and transport during the saharan mineral dust experiment SAMUM 2006 P (2)

56 Becagli Silvia :
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of selected Saharan dust events collected in aerosol sampled at Lampedusa Island. P (2)

Sub-session 2C Monday 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM: Posters by all those in Sub-session 2B
Title: Posters
Chairpersons: Alcide Giorgio di Sarra and George Kallos

Session 3: Tuesday 10 July, 2007 from 09:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Sub-session 3A Tuesday 09:30 AM to 10:30 PM:
Title: Interhemispheric Dust Transport: Models and measurements
Chairpersons: Johann Engelbrecht and Ralph Kahn

57 Prospero Joseph :
Long-term measurements of african dust deposition across the State of Florida: how well do models do? I (30)

58 Gong Sunling :
TRENDS AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIATIONS OF ASIAN DUST AEROSOLS AND THEIR TRANS-PACIFIC TRANSPORTS I (30)

Sub-session 3B Tuesday 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM:
Title: Dust Characterization from Intensive Field Campaigns
Chairpersons: Yaacov Mamane and Ron Miller

59 Clarke Antony :
Transport, Evolution and Entrainment of Asian Dust/Pollution into the C (15)

60 Matsuki Atsushi :
SELECTIVE REMOVAL OF DUST PARTICLES AND ITS DEPENDENCE ON MINERALOGY C (15)

61 Petzold Andreas :
Saharan mineral dust experiment (SAMUM) 2006: vertical profiles of dust particle properties from airborne in situ and LIDAR observations C (15)

62 Knippertz Peter :
Dust mobilization due to density currents in the ATLAS Region observations from the Saharan mineral dust experiment SAMUM 2006 C (15)

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63 Reid Jeffrey The United Arab Emirates Unified Aerosol Experiment: Investigations into the properties of heterogeneous environments C (15)

Session 4: Tuesday 10 July, 2007 from 02:00 PM to 05:30 PM

Sub-session 4A Tuesday 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM:
Title: Satellite and In Situ Remote Sensing
Chairpersons: Jeff Reid and Frank Wagner

64 Kahn Ralph :
Mineral Dust Aerosol Source Characterization and Air Mass Mapping from Space-based Multi-angle Remote Sensing C (15)

65 Kalashnikova Olga :
Characterization of mineral dust plume evolution over the Atlantic, by combining MISR dark-water aerosol retrievals and NAAPS transport model predictions C (15)

66 Rodriguez-Gonzalez Sergio An assessment of the aeronet aerosol size distrituions by comparisons with in-situ measurments at IZANA Global Atmospheric Watch Station: an analisys from clean-air to high saharan dust concentrations conditions C (15)

67 Hsu N. Christina :
Global Retrieval of Aerosol Properties over Desert and Semi-Desert Regions from SeaWiFS and MODIS C (15)

68 Gimbert Vincent :
Saharan Dust Longwave Radiative Forcing using GERB and SEVIRI C (15)

Sub-session 4B Tuesday 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM:
Title: Paleoclimate and Landscape Interactions
Chairpersons: Joe Prospero and Richard Washington

69 Zender Charlie :
Dust-Snow/Ice Interactions: A Glacial Cycle Modulator or Trigger? I (30)

70 Seelos Klemens :
The development of a continuous dust / loess stack (0 140 ka) for Central Europe by using the particle analysis and detection system RADIUS on ELSA sediment cores (Eifel, West Germany) C (15)

71 Chen Fahu :
Variations of atmospheric dust/aerosol and westerlies circulation over the last 2000 years documented by laminated lake sediments of Lake Sugan in the dust source areas, Arid China C (15)

72 Bullard Joanna :
Sub-basin scale dust emissions - geomorphology and landscape controls C (15)

Sub-session 4C Tuesday 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM: Posters remain on display
for informal viewing
Chairpersons: None

Session 5: Wednesday 11 July, 2007 from 09:00 AM to 12:30 AM

Sub-session 5A Wednesday 09:00 AM to 10:30 AM:
Title: Saharan Dust Impacts on European Air Quality and Health
Chairpersons: Greg Carmichael and Carlos Perez

73 Kallos George :
Saharan dust transport and its impact on air quality, ecosystems and regional climate I (30)

74 Papayannis Alexandros :
First systematic observations of Saharan dust over europe during earlinet (2000-2002): statistical analysis and results C (15)

75 Journet Emilie :
Iron solubility and redox speciation during dust transport C (15)

76 Mamane Yaacov :
Transport of anthropogenic elements on coarse and fine natural mineral particles along the East Mediterranean. C (15)

Sub-session 5B Wednesday 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM:
Title: Anthropogenic Dust: Problems, Prospects, and Trends
Chairpersons: Ralph Kahn and Danny Rosenfeld

77 Marticorena Beatrice :
DUST SOURCES : THEIR CHARACTERIZATION AND THEIR MODELING I (30)

78 Ganor Eliezer :
INCREASING TREND IN DUST CLOUD INTRUSIONS FROM THE SAHARA OVER ISRAEL C (15)

79 Garrison Virginia :
Don't breathe the air! long-distance atmospheric transport of chemical contaminants with african dust C (15)