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NOAA-ARCPAC
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2008-06-05 04:27
A Project of NOAA’s Climate Forcing and Air Quality Programs for the International Polar Year 2008
Seeking to answer:
What are human-caused processes (other than long-lived GHG-induced climate change) that may increase Arctic warming and/or sea ice melt?
By examing:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/ARCPAC/
What are human-caused processes (other than long-lived GHG-induced climate change) that may increase Arctic warming and/or sea ice melt?
By examing:
- Lower tropospheric warming due to absorption of solar radiation by soot particles
- Decrease in snow albedo by deposited soot
- Increase in IR emissivity of clouds by aerosol indirect effect
- Tropospheric O3 forcing (local IR and global)
Where: Fairbanks, Alaska
When: late March - April 2008
How: The focus of the NOAA airborne measurement component of this project will be the NOAA WP-3D platform.
Who: Investigators in this project include researchers from several universities, industries, and governmental agencies. Participating institutions include ETH Zurich and Georgia Tech.
For more information:http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/ARCPAC/