Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite your contributions to our session at the AGU 2014 Fall Meeting: #1723. "Mineral Dust Aerosols: From Small-Scale Insights to Large-Scale Understanding". This popular multidisciplinary session is now being offered for its third year!
The session description is: "Interactions of the dust cycle with other components of the Earth system produce a wide range of complex effects on, for instance, ecosystems, climate, and atmospheric composition. To better understand and simulate these effects, a wide range of advances are needed, including in field and laboratory measurements, remote sensing techniques, and models of the physical and chemical properties of dust. This session invites contributions reporting any such advances, as well as studies addressing any aspect of the dust cycle and its impact on the Earth system. This includes studies of dust properties, dust source region measurements, dust interactions with clouds, radiation, and the biosphere, effects of land use change on dust emissions, dust impacts on air quality and human health, and modeling of the dust cycle and its impacts. You can also find more information at the link https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session1723.html We have the following confirmed invited presenters: - Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa - Greg Okin, University of California Los Angeles - David Ridley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Claire Ryder, University of Reading Feel free to forward this anyone who might be interested. Sincerely, Conveners: Jasper F Kok, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States Kerstin Schepanski, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, Amato T Evan, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States James King, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States ---------------------------------------- Dr. J. King Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Geography, SB 120 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 +1 812 855 2916 kin...@indiana.edu http://pages.iu.edu/~kingjs
