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Absorbing aerosol layers in a changing climate: aging, lifetime and dynamics
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Project "A-LIFE" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Austria [AT] |
| Project website | http://www.a-life.at/ |
| Total cost | 1˙987˙980 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙987˙980 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-10-01 to 2020-09-30 |
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| 1 | UNIVERSITAT WIEN | AT (WIEN) | coordinator | 1˙987˙980.00 |
| 2 | LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN | DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
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Project objective
Aerosols (i.e. tiny particles suspended in the air) are regularly transported in huge amounts over long distances impacting air quality, health, weather and climate thousands of kilometers downwind of the source. Aerosols affect the atmospheric radiation budget through scattering and absorption of solar radiation and through their role as cloud/ice nuclei. In particular, light absorption by aerosol particles such as mineral dust and black carbon (BC; thought to be the second strongest contribution to current global warming after CO2) is of fundamental importance from a climate perspective because the presence of absorbing particles (1) contributes to solar radiative forcing, (2) heats absorbing aerosol layers, (3) can evaporate clouds and (4) change atmospheric dynamics.
Considering this prominent role of aerosols, vertically-resolved in-situ data on absorbing aerosols are surprisingly scarce and aerosol-dynamic interactions are poorly understood in general. This is, as recognized in the last IPCC report, a serious barrier for taking the accuracy of climate models and predictions to the next level. To overcome this barrier, I propose to investigate aging, lifetime and dynamics of absorbing aerosol layers with a holistic end-to-end approach including laboratory studies, airborne field experiments and numerical model simulations.
Building on the internationally recognized results of my aerosol research group and my long-term experience with airborne aerosol measurements, the time seems ripe to systematically bridge the gap between in-situ measurements of aerosol microphysical and optical properties and the assessment of dynamical interactions of absorbing particles with aerosol layer lifetime through model simulations.
The outcomes of this project will provide fundamental new understanding of absorbing aerosol layers in the climate system and important information for addressing the benefits of BC emission controls for mitigating climate change.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Matthias Wiegner, Ina Mattis, Margit Pattantyús-Ãbrahám, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Yann Poltera, Alexander Haefele, Maxime Hervo, Ulrich Görsdorf, Ronny Leinweber, Josef Gasteiger, Martial Haeffelin, Frank Wagner, Jan Cermak, Katerina KomÃnková, Mike Brettle, Christoph Münkel, Kornelia Pönitz Aerosol backscatter profiles from ceilometers: validation of water vapor correction in the framework of CeiLinEx2015 published pages: 471-490, ISSN: 1867-8548, DOI: 10.5194/amt-12-471-2019 |
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12/1 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2019 |
Daniel M. Murphy, Karl D. Froyd, Huisheng Bian, Charles A. Brock, Jack E. Dibb, Joshua P. DiGangi, Glenn Diskin, Maximillian Dollner, Agnieszka Kupc, Eric M. Scheuer, Gregory P. Schill, Bernadett Weinzierl, Christina J. Williamson, Pengfei Yu The distribution of sea-salt aerosol in the global troposphere published pages: 4093-4104, ISSN: 1680-7324, DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-4093-2019 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19/6 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2019 |
J. Christopher Kaiser, Johannes Hendricks, Mattia Righi, Patrick Jöckel, Holger Tost, Konrad Kandler, Bernadett Weinzierl, Daniel Sauer, Katharina Heimerl, Joshua P. Schwarz, Anne E. Perring, Thomas Popp Global aerosol modeling with MADE3 (v3.0) in EMAC (based on v2.53): model description and evaluation published pages: 541-579, ISSN: 1991-9603, DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-541-2019 |
Geoscientific Model Development 12/1 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2018 |
Josef Gasteiger, Matthias Wiegner MOPSMAP v1.0: a versatile tool for the modeling of aerosol optical properties published pages: 2739-2762, ISSN: 1991-9603, DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-2739-2018 |
Geoscientific Model Development 11/7 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2018 |
Ka Lok Chan, Matthias Wiegner, Harald Flentje, Ina Mattis, Frank Wagner, Josef Gasteiger, Alexander Geiß Evaluation of ECMWF-IFS (version 41R1) operational model forecasts of aerosol transport by using ceilometer network measurements published pages: 3807-3831, ISSN: 1991-9603, DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-3807-2018 |
Geoscientific Model Development 11/9 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2018 |
Marianne T. Lund, Bjørn H. Samset, Ragnhild B. Skeie, Duncan Watson-Parris, Joseph M. Katich, Joshua P. Schwarz, Bernadett Weinzierl Short Black Carbon lifetime inferred from a global set of aircraft observations published pages: , ISSN: 2397-3722, DOI: 10.1038/s41612-018-0040-x |
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 1/1 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2018 |
Christiane Schulz, Johannes Schneider, Bruna Amorim Holanda, Oliver Appel, Anja Costa, Suzane S. de Sá, Volker Dreiling, Daniel Fütterer, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Thomas Klimach, Christoph Knote, Martina Krämer, Scot T. Martin, Stephan Mertes, Mira L. Pöhlker, Daniel Sauer, Christiane Voigt, Adrian Walser, Bernadett Weinzierl, Helmut Ziereis, Martin Zöger, Meinrat O. Andreae, Paulo Artaxo, Luiz A. T. Machado, Ulrich Pöschl, Manfred Wendisch, Stephan Borrmann Aircraft-based observations of isoprene-epoxydiol-derived secondary organic aerosol (IEPOX-SOA) in the tropical upper troposphere over the Amazon region published pages: 14979-15001, ISSN: 1680-7324, DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-14979-2018 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18/20 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2018 |
Joseph M. Katich, B. H. Samset, T. Paul Bui, M. Dollner, K. D. Froyd, P. Campuzano-Jost, B. A. Nault, J. C. Schroder, B. Weinzierl, J. P. Schwarz Strong Contrast in Remote Black Carbon Aerosol Loadings Between the Atlantic and Pacific Basins published pages: 13,386-13,395, ISSN: 2169-897X, DOI: 10.1029/2018jd029206 |
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123/23 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Moritz Haarig, Albert Ansmann, Josef Gasteiger, Konrad Kandler, Dietrich Althausen, Holger Baars, Martin Radenz, David A. Farrell Dry versus wet marine particle optical properties: RH dependence of depolarization ratio, backscatter, and extinction from multiwavelength lidar measurements during SALTRACE published pages: 14199-14217, ISSN: 1680-7316, DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-14199-2017 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17/23 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Josef Gasteiger, Silke Groß, Daniel Sauer, Moritz Haarig, Albert Ansmann, Bernadett Weinzierl Particle settling and vertical mixing in the Saharan Air Layer as seen from an integrated model, lidar, and in situ perspective published pages: 297-311, ISSN: 1680-7324, DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-297-2017 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17/1 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Fernando Chouza, Benjamin Witschas, Oliver Reitebuch Heterodyne high-spectral-resolution lidar published pages: 8121, ISSN: 1559-128X, DOI: 10.1364/AO.56.008121 |
Applied Optics 56/29 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Micael A. Cecchini, Luiz A. T. Machado, Manfred Wendisch, Anja Costa, Martina Krämer, Meinrat O. Andreae, Armin Afchine, Rachel I. Albrecht, Paulo Artaxo, Stephan Borrmann, Daniel Fütterer, Thomas Klimach, Christoph Mahnke, Scot T. Martin, Andreas Minikin, Sergej Molleker, Lianet H. Pardo, Christopher Pöhlker, Mira L. Pöhlker, Ulrich Pöschl, Daniel Rosenfeld, Bernadett Weinzierl Illustration of microphysical processes in Amazonian deep convective clouds in the gamma phase space: introduction and potential applications published pages: 14727-14746, ISSN: 1680-7316, DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-14727-2017 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17/23 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Micael A. Cecchini, Luiz A. T. Machado, Meinrat O. Andreae, Scot T. Martin, Rachel I. Albrecht, Paulo Artaxo, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Stephan Borrmann, Daniel Fütterer, Tina Jurkat, Christoph Mahnke, Andreas Minikin, Sergej Molleker, Mira L. Pöhlker, Ulrich Pöschl, Daniel Rosenfeld, Christiane Voigt, Bernadett Weinzierl, Manfred Wendisch Sensitivities of Amazonian clouds to aerosols and updraft speed published pages: 10037-10050, ISSN: 1680-7316, DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-10037-2017 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17/16 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2018 |
Meinrat O. Andreae, Armin Afchine, Rachel Albrecht, Bruna Amorim Holanda, Paulo Artaxo, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Stephan Borrmann, Micael A. Cecchini, Anja Costa, Maximilian Dollner, Daniel Fütterer, Emma Järvinen, Tina Jurkat, Thomas Klimach, Tobias Konemann, Christoph Knote, Martina Krämer, Trismono Krisna, Luiz A. T. Machado, Stephan Mertes, Andreas Minikin, Christopher Pöhlker, Mira L. Pöhlker, Ulrich Pöschl, Daniel Rosenfeld, Daniel Sauer, Hans Schlager, Martin Schnaiter, Johannes Schneider, Christiane Schulz, Antonio Spanu, Vinicius B. Sperling, Christiane Voigt, Adrian Walser, Jian Wang, Bernadett Weinzierl, Manfred Wendisch, Helmut Ziereis Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin published pages: 921-961, ISSN: 1680-7316, DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-921-2018 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18/2 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Kathy S. Law, Anke Roiger, Jennie L. Thomas, Louis Marelle, Jean-Christophe Raut, Stig Dalsøren, Jan Fuglestvedt, Paolo Tuccella, Bernadett Weinzierl, Hans Schlager Local Arctic air pollution: Sources and impacts published pages: 453-463, ISSN: 0044-7447, DOI: 10.1007/s13280-017-0962-2 |
Ambio 46/S3 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Bernadett Weinzierl, A. Ansmann, J. M. Prospero, D. Althausen, N. Benker, F. Chouza, M. Dollner, D. Farrell, W. K. Fomba, V. Freudenthaler, J. Gasteiger, S. Groß, M. Haarig, B. Heinold, K. Kandler, T. B. Kristensen, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, T. Müller, O. Reitebuch, D. Sauer, A. Schäfler, K. Schepanski, A. Spanu, I. Tegen, C. Toledano, A. Walser The Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud-Interaction Experiment: Overview and Selected Highlights published pages: 1427-1451, ISSN: 0003-0007, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00142.1 |
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98/7 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Jean-Christophe Raut, Louis Marelle, Jerome D. Fast, Jennie L. Thomas, Bernadett Weinzierl, Katharine S. Law, Larry K. Berg, Anke Roiger, Richard C. Easter, Katharina Heimerl, Tatsuo Onishi, Julien Delanoë, Hans Schlager Cross-polar transport and scavenging of Siberian aerosols containing black carbon during the 2012 ACCESS summer campaign published pages: 10969-10995, ISSN: 1680-7316, DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-10969-2017 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17/18 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Richard H. Moore, Kenneth L. Thornhill, Bernadett Weinzierl, Daniel Sauer, Eugenio D’Ascoli, Jin Kim, Michael Lichtenstern, Monika Scheibe, Brian Beaton, Andreas J. Beyersdorf, John Barrick, Dan Bulzan, Chelsea A. Corr, Ewan Crosbie, Tina Jurkat, Robert Martin, Dean Riddick, Michael Shook, Gregory Slover, Christiane Voigt, Robert White, Edward Winstead, Richard Yasky, Luke D. Ziemba, Anthony Brown, Hans Schlager, Bruce E. Anderson Biofuel blending reduces particle emissions from aircraft engines at cruise conditions published pages: 411-415, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/nature21420 |
Nature 543/7645 | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Adrian Walser, Daniel Sauer, Antonio Spanu, Josef Gasteiger, Bernadett Weinzierl On the parametrization of optical particle counter response including instrument-induced broadening of size spectra and a self-consistent evaluation of calibration measurements published pages: 1-30, ISSN: 1867-1381, DOI: 10.5194/amt-2017-81 |
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions | 2020-04-09 |
| 2017 |
Joshua P. Schwarz, Bernadett Weinzierl, Bjørn H. Samset, Maximilian Dollner, Katharina Heimerl, Milos Z. Markovic, Anne E. Perring, Luke Ziemba Aircraft measurements of black carbon vertical profiles show upper tropospheric variability and stability published pages: 1132-1140, ISSN: 0094-8276, DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071241 |
Geophysical Research Letters 44/2 | 2020-04-09 |
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