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Title: The Green Ocean Amazon Experiment (GoAmazon2014/5) Observes Pollution Affecting Gases, Aerosols, Clouds, and Rainfall over the Rain Forest

Journal Article · · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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  1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  3. National Inst. for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos (Brazil)
  4. National Inst. of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Amazonas (Brazil)
  5. Amazonas State Univ., Amazonas (Brazil)
  6. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  7. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  9. Meteorological Research Inst. (MRI), Tsukuba (Japan)
  10. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  11. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  12. Max Planck Society, Mainz (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for Chemistry
  13. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
  14. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  15. Aeronautic and Space Inst., Sao Jose dos Campos (Brazil)
  16. Aerodyne, Inc., Billerica, MA (United States)
  17. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  18. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  19. Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States)
  20. Federal Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  21. Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)
  22. Federal Univ. of West Para, Santarem, Para (Brazil)
  23. Univ. of Leipzig (Germany)

The susceptibility of air quality, weather, terrestrial ecosystems, and climate to human activities was investigated in a tropical environment.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1376173
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1440951
Report Number(s):
BNL-114150-2017-JA; R&D Project: 2016-BNL-EE630EECA-Budg; KP1701000
Journal Information:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 98, Issue 5; ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher:
American Meteorological SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 99 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Local Convection and Turbulence in the Amazonia Using Large Eddy Simulation Model journal October 2018
Long-term study on coarse mode aerosols in the Amazon rain forest with the frequent intrusion of Saharan dust plumes journal January 2018
X-band dual-polarization radar-based hydrometeor classification for Brazilian tropical precipitation systems journal January 2019
Ground-based observation of clusters and nucleation-mode particles in the Amazon journal January 2018
Campaign datasets for Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GOAMAZON) dataset January 2016
Local convection and turbulence in the Amazonia using Large Eddy Simulation model other January 2018
Land cover and its transformation in the backward trajectory footprint region of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory journal January 2019
Microphysical variability of Amazonian deep convective cores observed by CloudSat and simulated by a multi-scale modeling framework posted_content October 2017
Land–atmosphere interactions in the tropics – a review journal January 2019
Constraining nucleation, condensation, and chemistry in oxidation flow reactors using size-distribution measurements and aerosol microphysical modeling journal January 2018
Variabilidade Temporal da Radiação Solar Durante o Experimento GOAmazon 2014/15 journal June 2018
Substantial convection and precipitation enhancements by ultrafine aerosol particles journal January 2018
Isoprene photo-oxidation products quantify the effect of pollution on hydroxyl radicals over Amazonia journal April 2018
Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest journal March 2019
Aircraft observations of the chemical composition and aging of aerosol in the Manaus urban plume during GoAmazon 2014/5 journal January 2018
Secondary organic aerosol formation from ambient air in an oxidation flow reactor in central Amazonia journal January 2018
Microphysical variability of Amazonian deep convective cores observed by CloudSat and simulated by a multi-scale modeling framework journal January 2018
Urban influence on the concentration and composition of submicron particulate matter in central Amazonia journal January 2018
CCN activity and organic hygroscopicity of aerosols downwind of an urban region in central Amazonia: seasonal and diel variations and impact of anthropogenic emissions journal January 2017
Overview: Precipitation characteristics and sensitivities to environmental conditions during GoAmazon2014/5 and ACRIDICON-CHUVA journal January 2018
Contributions of biomass-burning, urban, and biogenic emissions to the concentrations and light-absorbing properties of particulate matter in central Amazonia during the dry season journal January 2019
The Green Ocean: precipitation insights from the GoAmazon2014/5 experiment journal January 2018
Contributions of mobile, stationary and biogenic sources to air pollution in the Amazon rainforest: a numerical study with the WRF-Chem model journal January 2017
Temperature effects on sulfuric acid aerosol nucleation and growth: initial results from the TANGENT study journal January 2019
Long-term observations of cloud condensation nuclei over the Amazon rain forest – Part 2: Variability and characteristics of biomass burning, long-range transport, and pristine rain forest aerosols journal January 2018
Organic peroxy radical chemistry in oxidation flow reactors and environmental chambers and their atmospheric relevance journal January 2019
Explicit aerosol–cloud interactions in the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation model DALES4.1-M7 journal January 2019
African volcanic emissions influencing atmospheric aerosols over the Amazon rain forest journal January 2018
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The challenge of simulating the sensitivity of the Amazonian cloud microstructure to cloud condensation nuclei number concentrations journal January 2020
The influence that different urban development models has on PM2.5 elemental and bioaccessible profiles journal October 2019

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