Research on atmospheric aerosols w/satellites, models & impacts such as atmos-ocean exchange processes (SOLAS!). Atmos. polarization radiative transfer, #physics overall. Sharing and commenting on papers and sat images of (my) interest #highlatitudedust .. more
Research on atmospheric aerosols w/satellites, models & impacts such as atmos-ocean exchange processes (SOLAS!). Atmos. polarization radiative transfer, #physics overall. Sharing and commenting on papers and sat images of (my) interest #highlatitudedust
Hello all, there are a lot of new people here so I thought of re-introducing myself. I am a Earth Observation (EO) aerosol scientist contracted to work for the only agency that has put people on the moon.
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Below is an old self-introduction and description of what I have fun with (professionally speaking) .
The times are quite different than when I posted this, but well, we are still here, chugging along and hoping for the best.
Why is this important?
Because if drops are too small, they do not precipitate thus no rain. Thus it is important to understand how this operates.
Mt Michael 🌋 (S. Atlantic) shows an example of volcanic emissions making a cloud brighter by the same process that human air pollution change cloud reflective properties.
This why it is of interest to study aerosols-cloud interactions.
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In fact, it degrades the quality of review and worsens the problem in that it gives less incentive to accept to do a review.
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Well, I largely agree in the part related to creativity and breakthroughs.
But there are aspects of it that has made life better for modern scientists and are here to stay :
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More #highlatitudedust activity today in Patagonia with two large clouds that combined span a pretty large area.
The large extension of the dust cloud makes it more likely for dust to reach Antarctica and remote Southern Ocean.
Reposted by Santiago Gassó
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Oct. 28, 2025.
Reposted by Santiago Gassó
Station Papa, about 1200km downwind from the Copper River dust plume, has a number of instruments to monitor biological activity year round, so it would a be a nice exercise to explore monitor its data in the context of these dust events.
#biogeochemicalcycles
BTW some have done this excerciae before, if recall correctly, Bishop et all (late 80s/early 90s), Boyd et Al (early 90s GBC) and I think Crusius et al (2020s, JGR ). there maybe more..
Passive degassing in Mt Curry 🌋in #Zavodovski Is. (South Atlantic).
Cloud nucleii in the plume enhance brightness in the overlaying clouds creating a #volcanotrack.
#aerosolcloudsinteractions
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Station Papa, about 1200km downwind from the Copper River dust plume, has a number of instruments to monitor biological activity year round, so it would a be a nice exercise to explore monitor its data in the context of these dust events.
#biogeochemicalcycles
Latest images from N20 and N21 confirm more #highlatitudedust activity all along the coastline to west (Kodiak), center (Copper River Delta) and south east (south of Yakutat)
Meanwhile in Patagonia, activity continues with the #highlatitudedust cloud extending over the phytoplankton blooms (arrow) in the SW Atlantic.
Thick cloud in the distance obstructs clouds.
#highlatitudedust
Reposted by Santiago Gassó
#highlatitudedust activity today in Patagonia, GOES image shows some dust in between clouds. But it is clear as seen from webcams on the ground in Comodoro Rivadavia.
One year, I counted the time it took me to write 4 proposals (3 as PI). If I recall correctly, it was 150-180 hours, about ~2.5 months which I got naught money out that effort (massacre year). And these were proposal that would fund me just ~0.25 FTE 1/n
At both end of the Americas , in Kodiak (Alaska) and Comodoro Rivadavia (Patagonia, Argentina) cloudy conditions prevail and no direct view from satellite to the surface. Both webcams in both sites confirm #highlatitudedust in suspension (images with poor contrast but believe me it is dust)