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Penn State Colloquium http://physics.umbc.edu/~mcmillan
1/18/07
Atmospheric Physics at UMBCphysics.umbc.edu ([email protected])
• Offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees• Research areas: remote sensing of
aerosols, gases, clouds, and transport modeling
• 4 core faculty, 20 research faculty, 2 Joint Centers with NASA Goddard (100+ researchers),
and 15 graduate studentsResearch Instrumentation
• Full meteorological station including all-sky camera• In situ trace gas and aerosol monitors including filters• Multiple Lidar systems (scannable, Raman, elastic, MPL)• Uplooking atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI)• AERONET CIMEL sun photometer and Suominet GPS• Lightning mapper network• CO2 and eddy flux covariance measurements• Vaisala RS-92 radiosonde ground-station
Atmospheric Lidar GroupRaymond Hoff ([email protected])
Areas of Research
• Understanding optical properties of atmospheric aerosols and gases in a suburban environment
• Understanding satellite retrievals of these chemicals and the relationship between column and profile measurements
• Calibrating the remote sensing measurements with in-situ ground measurements
• Understanding the impact of aerosols on human health
UMBC Monitoring of Air Pollution (UMAP)http://alg.umbc.edu/UMAP
PhysicsDepartment
Laboratory for Aerosol and Cloud OpticsL A CO
Aircraft Sensors and Measurements
Laboratory MeasurementsNew Remote Sensing
Instrument Development
www.umbc.edu/laco
PhysicsDepartment
Laboratory for Aerosol and Cloud OpticsL A CO
Instrument Development
www.umbc.edu/laco
Ratio 2.1/2.25m
Proxy for ice/waterseparation
Ratio 2.1/2.25m
Proxy for ice/waterseparation
Science
Prof. J. Vanderlei [email protected]
Marshak et al. 2006, ACPMartins et al. 2007, ACPDZinner et al. 2008, ACPD
Atmospheric Remote Sensing Facility (ARF)Wallace McMillan ([email protected])
• Remote sensing of trace gases: mainly CO and O3• Long-range transport and impacts on air quality• Fire and human pollution changes with climate• Stratosphere-troposphere exchange• Planetary boundary layer evolution and air quality forecasting• Correlations of trace gases and aerosols
• Ground-based: BBAERI• Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer• PBL Temperature and moisture profiler (U. Wis. developed)• PBL CO and tropospheric column O3 (UMBC developed)
• Satellite: AIRS• Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (on Aqua)• CO retrievals and validation (Science Team member)• Integrating analysis with other observations: Calipso, MODIS,
MOPITT, TES, OMI, IASI, ground-based, etc.
AIRS tracks LA fire plume to Texas
Calipso track
Calipso 532 nm attenuated backscatter
LA Station Fire plume 8/30/09 (AP)Wallace McMillan ([email protected])
Hurricane Katrina hot towers (TRMM)
Lynn Sparling Research areas:
Low level winds: Energy generation and boundary layer dynamics.
Long-range transport: Tracking SO2 emissions from volcanoes.
Hurricanes: Small scale processes in the eye and eyewall and links to intensity change.
Student Opportunities
• Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST)http://gest.umbc.edu/student_opp/students.html
• Joint Center for Earth Systems Techology (JCET)http://gest.umbc.edu/
faculty_publications/2010/JCET_Summer2010.pdf
