Symposium on Global Aerosol Climatology Database Preliminary Program Co-sponsored by the American Association for Aerosol Research and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Embassy Suites Hotel Portland Airport, Portland, Oregon October 13-14, 2001 Tentative Symposium Schedule 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Friday, October 12, 2001 Registration 7:30 am – 1:00 pm Saturday, October 13, 2001 Registration 12:00 am – 12:10 pm 12:10 pm – 1:50 pm 1:50 pm – 2:00 pm 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm 4:45 pm – 4:55 pm 4:55 pm – 5:55 pm 5:55 pm – 7:30 pm 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Welcome and opening remarks Session 1: Overview and Plenary Break (short) Session 2: Satellite Platforms and Retrievals Break Session 3: Lidar and Other Remote Sensing Break (short) Session 4: Aircraft and Balloon-borne Measurements Dinner break Poster Session 7:30 am – 1:00 pm Sunday, October 14, 2001 Registration 8:00 am – 9:30 am 9:30 am – 9:40 am 9:40 am – 11:10 am 11:10 am – 11:20 am 11:20 am – 12:20 pm 12:20 pm – 1:30 pm 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Session 5: Data Assimilation and Modeling Break (short) Session 5: Data Assimilation and Modeling (cont.) Break (short) Session 6: Radiometric Observations Lunch break Session 6: Radiometric Observations (cont.) Break Session 7: Surface Observations – Networks and Field Studies Session 8: Discussions, Recommendations and Summary Technical Program 12:10pm – 1:50 pm Saturday, October 13, 2001 Platform Session 1: Overview and Plenary 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Aerosol Effects on Climate: An Observational Approach. V. RAMANATHAN, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037. The Pervasive Influence of Intercontinental Dust: Why Were We Surprised? It Was All in the Data Base! THOMAS A. CAHILL, DELTA Group, Dept. of Applied Science, University of California, Davis CA 95616. The Global Atmosphere Watch Program of WMO: An Excellent Opportunity For The Generation Of Quality-Controlled Global Aerosol Data Sets. URS BALTENSPERGER, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland. Challenges for Integrating and Archiving Data from In Situ Measurement Campaigns. KEVIN J. NOONE, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. Synthesis of Integrated Global Aerosol Data Sets. JULIAN WILSON, Environment Institute, DG JRC, European Commission, I-21020 Ispra (Va) Italy and Robert Vet, Meteorological Service of Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Canada. 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Saturday, October 13, 2001 Platform Session 2: Satellite Platforms and Retrievals 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Global Two-Channel AVHRR Retrievals of Aerosol Properties over the Ocean for the Period of NOAA-9 Observations and Preliminary Retrievals Using NOAA-7 and NOAA-11 Data. IGOR GEOGDZHAYEV and Michael Mishchenko, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025. Retrieval of Aerosol Properties from Satellites. G. DE LEEUW, C. Robles Gonzalez, J. KusmierczykMichulec, R. Decae and P. Veefkind+, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory, The Hague, The Netherlands; + current address: KNMI, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands. Deriving Aerosol Properties over Dark Water from Satellite Multi-Angle Imaging -- The Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating. RALPH KAHN, Duncan McDonald, Franklin Mills, and John Jackson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109; USA. A Study of Global Cloud-Aerosol Interaction from Satellite Remote Sensing and Climate Modeling. TERUYUKI NAKAIJMA, Miho Sekiguchi, and Toshihiko Takemura, Center for Climate System Research, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan; Akiko Higurashi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, 305-0053, Ibaraki, Japan; and Kazuaki Kawamoto, Atmospheric Sciences Division, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA. A Global Long-Term Record of Aerosol Properties from TOMS Observations. O. TORRES, P.K. Bhartia, J.R. Herman, A. Syniuk, and B. Holben, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, 20771, USA. 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Saturday, October 13, 2001 Platform Session 3: Lidar and Other Remote Sensing 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 EARLINET: A European Aerosol Research Lidar Network. VOLKER MATTHIAS and Jens Boesenberg, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie, Bundesstrasse 55, D–20146 Hamburg, Germany. Aerosol Measurements by the Globally Distributed Micro-Pulse-Lidar Network. JAMES SPINHIRNE, Judd Welton, Tim Berkoff and James Campbell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA. Raman Lidar Profiling of Aerosols over the Southern Great Plains, R.A. FERRARE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681; D.D. Turner, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352 (Currently on leave at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706); L.H. Brasseur, Science Applications International Corporation, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681; T. Tooman and J.E.M. Goldsmith, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551; O. Dubovik, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771; and J. Ogren, NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80303. Aerosol Climatology over a Tropical Urban Station Established with Collocated Ground-based Lidar and Radiometers. P.C.S. Devara, P. Ernest Raj, G. Pandithurai, K.K. Dani and R.S. Maheskumar, Physical Meteorology and Aerology Division, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Marg, Pune 411 008, India. The 13-Year Tropospheric Aerosol Lidar Depolarization Dataset from FARS. KENNETH SASSEN, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA 4:55 pm – 5:55 pm Saturday, October 13, 2001 Platform Session 4: Aircraft and Balloon-borne Measurements 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Airborne Data Bases in Climate Research. DEAN A. HEGG, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Aircraft Studies of Aerosol over the Pacific and Indian Oceans : A Decade of In-Situ Characterization of Aerosol Properties. ANTONY CLARKE, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI 96822, USA. Stratospheric Aerosol in The Mid Latitudes Of Both Hemispheres: Balloon-borne Measurements of Particle Size Distribution Spanning 30 Years in the North and 10 Years in the South. TERRY DESHLER and Mark E. Hervig, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA; James M. Rosen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA; David J. Hofmann, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado, USA; J. Ben Liley, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd, Lauder, New Zealand. Cloud Condensation Nuclei Climatology. JAMES G. HUDSON, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89512-1095, USA. 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Poster Session Saturday, October 13, 2001 P1.1 P2.1 P3.1 P3.2 P4.1 P4.2 P4.3 P5.1 P5.2 P5.3 P5.4 P5.5 P5.6 P6.1 GAW Station Information System (GAWSIS). JÖRG KLAUSEN and Peter Hofer, GAW QA/SAC Switzerland, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland. (Presented by Julian Wilson.) Satellite Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning Aerosols over Land: A Regional Perspective. SUNDAR A. CHRISTOPHER, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA. ND:YAG Lidar Measurements of Aerosols over Ahmedabad and Mount Abu, India. A. JAYARAMAN, S. Ramachandran and Y.B. Acharya, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India. Long –Term Stratospheric Aerosol Observations by Lidar at the Alpine NDSC Station Garmisch. H. JÄGER, F. Homburg and H. Giehl, Fraunhofer Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; and T. Deshler, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA Study of Biogenic Components of Atmospheric Aerosols Variability in the South of Western Siberia. A.S. SAFATOV, I.S Andreeva, A.I. Borodulin, G.A. Buryak, Yu.V. Marchenko, S.E. Ol’kin, V.A. Petrishchenko, O.V. P’yankov, I.K. Reznikova, A.N. Sergeev, E.V. Stepanova, S.V. Zykov, State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, 630559, Russia; B.D. Belan, M.V. Panchenko, Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Tomsk, 634055, Russia; A.N. Ankilov, A.M. Baklanov, A.L. Vlasenko, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; V.V. Penenko, E.A. Tsvetova, Institute of Computation Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia. Airborne Measurements of Asian Aerosols during ACE-ASIA. BARRY J. HUEBERT, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA. In Situ Observations of Stratospheric Aerosols Using Balloon-Borne Sun-Tracking Photometers. S. Ramachandran and A. JAYARAMAN, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India. Planetary Waves Effects in the Tropospheric Aerosol. O.G. KHOUTOROVA, G.M. Teptin, Department of Radioastronomy, Physics Faculty, Kazan State University, Kazan 420008, Russia Searching and Identification of Aerosol Admixture Sources as a Constituent Part of the Problem of Global Climatology. A.I. BORODULIN, B.M. Desyatkov, A.S. Safatov, State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk region, 630559, Russia. V.V. Penenko, E.A. Tsvetova, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Ac. Lavrentjev Ave., 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. Comparison of Simulated and Observed Aerosol Optical Depth. NELS LAULAINEN, Steven Ghan, and Richard Easter and Leonard Barrie; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA ;B.S.N. Prasad, University of Mysore, Mysore, India; K. Krishna Moorthy, Space Physics Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, India; K. Niranjan, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India; Michael Weller, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Potsdam, Germany; Ulrich Leiterer; Deutscher Wetterdienst, Lindenberg, Germany; Thomas Ingold, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Alain Heimo, Swiss Meteorological Institute, Payerne, Switzerland; Chris Wehrli; PMOD, World Radiation Commission, Davos-Dorf, Switzerland; Gilbert, Burki; L'Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, Sauverny, Switzerland; Dafydd Wyn Evans, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Leonid Berdnikov, Starnberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Few-Parameter Models of the Atmospheric Aerosol Optical Characteristics. MIKHAIL V. PANCHENKO, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk 634055, Russia. Modeling the Microphysical, Chemical, and Radiative Evolution of Saharan Dust Plumes. TIM GARRETT, Lynn Russell, V. Ramaswamy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA. Long-Range Transport and Deposition of Persistent and Semivolatile Organic Compounds Using a General Circulation Model. G. Lammel, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany and University of Hamburg, Meteorological Institute; A. Leip, University of Hamburg, Meteorological Institute; and J. FEICHTER, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. Optical Depths and Water Vapor Column Content Measurements by a Star- and Sunphotometer Integrated in a Monitoring System Supported by Microwave Radiometer and Precise Radiosonde Humidity Profiling. Ulrich Leiterer, Horst Dier, Tatjana Naebert, and Karsten Schrobitz, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium, D-15864 Lindenberg, Germany; Galina Alexseeva, Viatcheslav Galkin, and Viktor Novikov, Main Astronomical Observatory, 196140 St. Petersburg-Pulkovo, Russia; Alexandre Kats, Federal State Unitary Enterprise KOMET, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia; Jürgen Güldner and MICHAEL WELLER, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium, D-14405 Potsdam, Germany; Dagmar Nagel, Institut für Atmosphaerenphysik, GKSS Forschungszentrum GmbH, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany; Axel Naebert, Dr. Schulz & Partner GmbH, D-15848 Buckow, Germany. P6.2 P6.3 P6.4 P6.5 P6.6 P7.1 P7.2 P7.3 Trends and Regional Peculiarities of Mean Aerosol Parameters of the Total Column and the Mixed Layer. M. WELLER, P. Plessing, and J. Lattauschke, Meteorological Observatory Potsdam, German Weather Service, Potsdam, Germany; U. Leiterer and D. Engelbart, Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg, German Weather Service, Lindenberg, Germany; and W. von Hoyningen-Huene, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. A Comparison of Optical Depth Measurements by 16 Filter Radiometers in Autumn 2000. C. WEHRLI, Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland; K. Behrens, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Potsdam, Germany; F. Denn and K. Larman, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, USA; B. Forgan, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia; I. Galindo, University of Colima, Colima, Mexico; K. Honda, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; J. Michalsky, State University New York, Albany, USA; T. Persson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institut, Norrköping, Sweden; and K. Uchida, EKO Instruments, Tokyo, Japan. Study of Aerosol Climatology over the Tropical Station Pune. V. V. AGASHE, G. R. Aher, and N. Shantikumar Singh, Department of Space Sciences, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India. (Presented by B. S. N. PRASAD, University of Mysore, Mysore, India) Studies of Aerosol Climatology and Effects from a Network of Multiwavelength Radiometer Stations. K. Krishnamoorthy, Space Physics Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, India; B.S.N. PRASAD, University of Mysore, Mysore, India; K. Niranjan, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India; V.V. Agashe, Department of Space Sciences, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India; B.H. Subbaraya, Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore 560 094, India; Nels Laulainen, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA. A Climatology of Aerosol Optical Depth at Selected Stations in Australia and the Western United States. Nels Laulainen, Nels Larson, Leonard Barrie, and Steven Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA 99352. Aerosol Extinction of the Optical Radiation in Hazes of Different Regions. Yu. A. Pkhalagov, V. N. Uzhegov, N. N. Schelkanov, and MIKHAIL V. PANCHENKO, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk 634055, Russia. Tropospheric Aerosol over the Southern Ocean – Work Towards a Climatology. J. L. GRAS, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, VIC., 3195, Australia. Long-Term Measurements of Atmospheric Aerosol Chemical Composition and Physical Properties at Lithuanian Environmental Research Station in Preila. VIDMANTAS ULEVICIUS, Dalia Sopauskiene, Dalia Jasineviciene and Genrik Mordas, Lithuanian Institute of Physics, Environmental Physics and Chemistry Laboratory, LT-2600, Vilnius, Lithuania. 8:00 am – 11:10 am Sunday, October 14, 2001 Platform Session 5: Data Assimilation and Modeling 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Integration of Global Satellite and Surface Aerosol Data with Models. RUDOLF B. HUSAR, CAPITA, Box 1124, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63130. A Global Aerosol Climatology Using an Aerosol Assimilation Procedure. PHILIP RASCH and William Collins, NCAR, Boulder CO 80307, USA. The LOWTRAN / MODTRAN Aerosol Models. ERIC P. SHETTLE, NRL, Code 7227 Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC 20375-5351. Aerosol Component Modeling in GCMS and CTMS. Differences for Optical Properties Among Seven Models and Differences of Models to Satellite Retrievals and Ground-based AERONET Statistics. S. KINNE, B. Holben (presenting), M. Chin, S. Ghan, U. Lohmann, M. Herzog, D. Koch, G. Pitari, T. Takemura, I Tegen and Torres O, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA. Optical Validation of a Global, Size-Distributed, Aerosol Model: A Preliminary Analysis of Variations in Agreement. S. THULASIRAMAN, N. T. O’Neill, A. Royer, S. L Gong, CARTEL, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Aerosol Optical Properties with a Global Three-Dimensional Model. TOSHIHIKO TAKEMURA and Teruyuki Nakajima, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan. A Practical Aerosol Index for Integrating Transport Models, Satellite Retrievals and In-Situ Measurements. DARREN C. WILTON, Theodore L. Anderson, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1640 and Steven J. Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA. Description of FLAMBÉ: The Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions Project. DOUGLAS L. WESTPHAL, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA 93943-5502; Jeffery S. Reid, Space and Naval Warfare System Center - San Diego, San Diego, CA 92152-7385; S. A. Christopher, and Elaine M. Prins, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama In Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA. 5.9 5.10 In Situ Surface Observations of Aerosol Hygroscopic Growth Factors for Computing Direct Radiative Forcing in the Southeastern US. V.K. SAXENA and J.-S. Im, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208. The Aerosol Data Holdings Available from the NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center. JOHN O. OLSON and Nancy A. Ritchey, Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA 23681. 11:20 am – 3:00 pm Sunday, October 14, 2001 Platform Session 6: Radiometric Observations 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 AERONET - A Globally Distributed Ground-Based Aerosol Optical Properties Measurement Program. BRENT HOLBEN, Alexander Smirnov, Tom Eck, Oleg Dubovik, and Ilya Slutsker, Biospheric Science Branch, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA. Aerosol Climatology Based on MFRSR Measurements. JOSEPH MICHALSKY, James Schlemmer, Jerry Berndt, and Lee Harrison, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12203; Nels Laulainen and Nels Larson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington. A Local Climatology of Aerosol Based on Spectral Characteristics and Air Masses Analysis during 5 Years at El Arenosillo Station. R. Vergaz, V. E. Cachorro, A. M. DE FRUTOS, GOA-UVA, Atmospheric Optics Group of the University of Valladolid, Facultad de Ciencias, Prado de la Magdalena s/n. 47071 Valladolid, Spain. New Trial Phase of the WMO/GAW Aerosol Optical Depth Measurement Network. C.WEHRLI, Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland. 2D Fields Of Aerosol And Trace Gases Parameters From Integrated Analysis Of Multi-Instrument MFRSR Dataset from DOE ARM Program CART Site. MIKHAIL ALEXANDROV, Andrew A. Lacis, Barbara E. Carlson, Brian Cairns, Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA, Nels Laulainen, Atmospheric Science Technical Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 99352. Comparison of Optical Depth Measurements at the Bratt’s Lake Observatory, Saskatchewan, Canada. L.J. BRUCE MCARTHUR, Meteorological Service of Canada, Toronto, Canada, M3H 5T4; J. R. Slusser, USDA UVB Monitoring and Research Program, University State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499; N. T. O’Neill, CARTEL, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada J1K 2R1; C. Wherli, WRR/PMOD, Davos, Switzerland; D. H. Halliwell and O. J. Neibergall, Bratt’s Lake Observatory, Wilcox, Canada, S0G 5E0. Aerosol Climatology For A Low Latitude Continental Station From Sunphotometer Observations. B.S.N. PRASAD, N.V. Raju, B. Narasimhamurthy, Department of Physics, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysore 570 006, India; ; Nels Laulainen, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA. Long-Term Trends in Aerosol Optical Depths and Size Characteristics over Visakhapatnam, a Coastal Industrial Location in India. K. NIRANJAN, B. Malleswara Rao and A. Saha, Department of Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003 India. AEROSTAR - Development of a New Stellar Spectrophotometer for Monitoring and the Characterization of Nighttime Aerosol. XAVIER THEORET, CARTEL, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Dynamics of The Aerosol Optical Depth of the Atmosphere in Georgia. A. AMIRANASHVILI andV.Amiranashvili, Institute of Geophysics, Georgian Acad. of Sciences, 1.M. Aleksidze Str., 380093, Tbilisi, Georgia; K.Tavartkiladze, Institute of Geography, Georgian Acad. of Sciences, 8 M. Aleksidze Str., 380093, Tbilisi, Georgia. 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm Sunday, October 14, 2001 Platform Session 7: Surface Observations – Networks and Field Studies 7.1 7.2 7.3 The IMPROVE Aerosol and Haze Monitoring Network and Data Delivery System. BRET A. SCHICHTEL, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523; William C. Malm, National Park Service, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, Colorado 80523. Anthropogenic Aerosols in Europe – The EMEP Experience. ARNE SEMB, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, N-2007 Kjeller, Norway. Variability of Aerosol Optical Properties at Four North American Surface Monitoring Sites. JOHN A. OGREN and David J. Delene, NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA. 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 A Twelve-Year Record of Free-Tropospheric Bulk Aerosol Composition at the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. BARRY J. HUEBERT and Liangzhong Zhuang, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA. Atmospheric Aerosol Measurements at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station, on the West Coast of Ireland. S.G. JENNINGS, C. Junker, Ch. Kleefeld, G. Mc Sweeney, T.G. Spain, Atmospheric Research Group, Department of Physics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; H. Maring and D. Savoie, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Florida 33149, USA. Cruise Observations of Aerosol Optical Depth and Size Distribution over the Tropical Indian Ocean. A. JAYARAMAN and S. Ramachandran, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India. Spatial and Temporal Variations of Atmospheric Particles in Singapore. W. J. Lim, W. Wei, and R. BALASUBRAMANIAN, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 4 Engineering Drive 4, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576. 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Sunday, October 14, 2001 Platform Session 8: Discussions, Recommendations and Summary 8.1 Open discussion led by Julian Wilson and Nels Laulainen.