Quantifying and Accounting for the Importance of Aerosol Mixing State. Final Report
The objective of this project was to develop a comprehensive framework of modeling and theory to rigorously investigate the impacts of aerosol mixing state on climate-relevant aerosol properties. The project led to several breakthroughs in the development of new methods as well as new science results. The significant accomplishments of this project are as follows: 1. We developed a conceptual framework to quantify mixing state based on rigorous information-theoretic entropy concepts, and used this to quantify climate-relevant aerosol impacts. Our new mixing state index has seen significant adoption by experimentalists and modelers. 2. We developed new numerical algorithms to enable the efficient simulation of particle-resolved aerosol microphysics within 3D atmospheric models, and implemented these in our coupled WRF-PartMC model. This makes WRF-PartMC the world’s most accurate model of aerosol microphysics coupled to atmospheric dynamics, and we performed the first ever 3D regional-scale simulations that fully resolve aerosol mixing state. 3. We integrated our modeling and conceptual framework with observations including ASR field campaigns (CARES) and ASR-supported laboratory campaigns (Boston College BC-3).
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0011771
- OSTI ID:
- 1572762
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UIUC-0011771; TRN: US2000055
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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