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Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry (DC3)
When: 19-20 April, 2006 Where: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO (Foothills Laboratory) All links are PDF files Summary of Workshop List of Participants Introduction (pdf) Plenary Talks Introduce DC3 goals and canadate hypotheses Pickering: Dynamical, physical, and chemical processes occuring in and around convection (HOx chmeistry, NOx chemistry) Barth: Physical and chemical processes occurring in and around the anvil regon/convective outflow Crawford: Chemistry occurring 12-48 hours downwind of active convection Schauffler: Halogen chemistry Lenschow: Mass fluxes into and out of the storm Lang: Lighting issues Heymfield: Water budget studies Rogers: Aerosol-cloud particle connections Cantrell: Introduce the desired facilities and instruments to conduct the field experiment Cooper: Introduce the candidate locations with climatology and emission maps Weisman: Forecasting convection in the Central U.S. The cerification process for installing an instrument on HIAPER Weinheimer Pavel Summary of Day 1: DC3 Scientific Hypotheses Individual Presentations Mullendore: Reflectivity and tracer transport Garrett: HNO3 scavenging Wang: ReflectivityTroposphere to stratosphere transport by deep convection Pan: Satellite data analysis Clarke: Aerosol-cloud outflow nucleation of aerosols Cantrell: HIAPER HOx instrument Ghan: DOE Atmospheric Sciences Program facilities/participation MacGorman: Facilities in Oklahoma Peterson: Facilities in Alabama Krehbiel: Facilities Lighting climatology in Oklahoma and in the STEPS region Discussions Discussion of the experimental design to quantify the impact of convective storm processes on the transport of chemical constituents to the upper troposphere Pickering and Helsdon: Convection type Cantrell: Instruments and platforms Toohey: Discussion of halogen chemistry in the UTLS Anvil Processes Lenschow and Cantrell: Chemistry Heymsfield and Rogers: Physics and Meteorology Brune and Cantrell: Discussion of the experimental design to determine the effects of convectively- perturbed air masses and its related chmeistry in the UTLS 12-48 hours after the near convection region is sampled Krehbiel and MacGorman: Discussion of lighting studies Discussion on future planning (pdf)