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Studying Aerosol, Clouds, and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeastern Texas

Journal Article · · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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  1. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); et al.
  2. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
  3. Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA; Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
  4. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
  5. Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA; School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  6. Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
  7. Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
  8. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NY, USA
  9. Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
  10. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
  11. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  12. Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA
  13. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Austin, TX, USA
  14. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
  15. Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
  16. NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
  17. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
  18. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  19. McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
  20. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
  21. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
  22. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
  23. Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
  24. Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
  25. LumenUs Scientific, LLC, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
  26. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
  27. Department of Mathematics, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, USA
  28. NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
  29. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  30. Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, USA
  31. Environmental Sciences Department, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
  32. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Aerodyne Research, Billerica, MA, USA
  33. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA
  34. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
  35. Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
  36. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA; Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  37. Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
  38. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  39. National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  40. Hammelman Communications, Pagosa Springs, CO, USA
  41. Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
  42. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NY, USA
  43. Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
  44. Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA; Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
  45. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Isreal
  46. Department of Chemistry, University of California – Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
  47. NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA
  48. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA; Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blackburg, VA, USA
  49. Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
  50. Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, USA
  51. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  52. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research at NASA GISS, New York, NY, USA
  53. Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  54. National Weather Service Houston/Galveston Weather Forecast Office, League City, TX, USA
  55. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA
  56. Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  57. Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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A multi-agency succession of field campaigns was conducted in southeastern Texas during July 2021 through October 2022 to study the complex interactions of aerosols, clouds and air pollution in the coastal urban environment. As part of the Tracking Aerosol Convection interactions Experiment (TRACER), the TRACER- Air Quality (TAQ) campaign the Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE) and the Convective Cloud Urban Boundary Layer Experiment (CUBE), a combination of ground-based supersites and mobile laboratories, shipborne measurements and aircraft-based instrumentation were deployed. These diverse platforms collected high-resolution data to characterize the aerosol microphysics and chemistry, cloud and precipitation micro- and macro-physical properties, environmental thermodynamics and air quality-relevant constituents that are being used in follow-on analysis and modeling activities. We present the overall deployment setups, a summary of the campaign conditions and a sampling of early research results related to: (a) aerosol precursors in the urban environment, (b) influences of local meteorology on air pollution, (c) detailed observations of the sea breeze circulation, (d) retrieved supersaturation in convective updrafts, (e) characterizing the convective updraft lifecycle, (f) variability in lightning characteristics of convective storms and (g) urban influences on surface energy fluxes. The work concludes with discussion of future research activities highlighted by the TRACER model-intercomparison project to explore the representation of aerosol-convective interactions in high-resolution simulations.
Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Stony Brook University, NY (United States); Texas A & M University, College Station, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
NASA’s Tropospheric Composition and Health and Air Quality Sciences programs (TAQ) and the TCEQ; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth & Environmental Systems Science (EESS)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; SC0012704; SC0021047; SC0021074; SC0021160; SC0021242; SC0021247; SC0021381; SC0022140; SC0025146; SC0025214
Other Award/Contract Number:
AGS-2019649
AGS-2020000
AGS-2019968
AGS-2019947
AGS-2019939
AGS-2019932
OSTI ID:
2574780
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2997541
OSTI ID: 3008112
OSTI ID: 3005335
Report Number(s):
BNL--229000-2025-JAAM
Journal Information:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; ISSN 1520-0477; ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher:
American Meteorological SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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