Overview of AEROMMA and Other Airborne Field Campaigns in Summer 2023 and Potential Connections for Evaluating and Improving NOAA Forecasts
Rebecca Schwantes
NOAA/CSL
10 July, 1pm
Abstract:
To improve our understanding of emissions and chemical reactions that affect climate and air quality, the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory has conducted the Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas (AEROMMA) field campaign in summer 2023 to collect new observations from megacities to marine environments. AEROMMA 2023 is a comprehensive study investigating anthropogenic and marine emissions that alter tropospheric composition using the NASA DC-8 aircraft together with various ground sites and a multi-agency collaboration with other projects under the combined AGES+ umbrella in summer 2023. For AEROMMA, the DC-8 aircraft was flown as the in-situ observation platform in close coordination with the NASA G-V and G-III aircraft as the remote sensing platforms and under NASA's TEMPO satellite to investigate air quality and greenhouse gases in New York, Chicago, Toronto, the Central Valley, and Los Angeles. The flights were used to determine emissions, volatile organic compound oxidation, and formation of ozone and aerosols. Here we will summarize the data available from the AEROMMA and AGES+ dataset and preliminary science results. We will discuss development of a new modeling evaluation tool called MELODIES MONET (https://melodies-monet.readthedocs.io/) that will increase the usability and accessibility of the AEROMMA and AGES+ datasets for the modeling community. We will also discuss potential case studies from the AEROMMA dataset that would be useful for model evaluation for improving NOAA forecasting applications of smoke, air quality, and weather.