Measuring Aerosols in the Arctic
Sea ice over the Arctic Ocean, as seen from above. A layer of haze – primary smoke from Canadian fires – obscures the view. Credit:
Sea ice over the Arctic Ocean, as seen from above. A layer of haze – primary smoke from Canadian fires – obscures the view. Credit:
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Lauren Zamora is first author on a new paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics titled “Comparisons between the distributions of dust and combustion aerosols in MERRA-2, FLEXPART, and CALIPSO and implications for deposition freezing over wintertime Siberia”.
Lauren Zamora, ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist and a contractor in the Climate and Radiation Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has a new article out in Journal of Climate titled, “Saharan dust aerosols change deep convective cloud prevalence, possibly by inhibiting marine new particle formation”.