BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate

Tuukka Petäjä; Ewan J. O'Connor; Dmitri Moisseev; Victoria A. Sinclair; Antti J. Manninen; Riikka Väänänen; Annakaisa von Lerber; Joel A. Thorntoton; Keri Nicocoll; Walt Petersen; V. Chandrasekar; James N. Smith; Paul M. Winkler; Olaf Krüger; Hannele Hakola; Hilkka Timonen; David Brus; Tuomas Laurila; Eija Asmi; Marja-Liisa Riekkola; Lucia Mona; Paola Massoli; Ronny Engelmann; Mika Komppula; Jian Wang; Chongai Kuang; Jaana Bäck; Annele Virtanen; Janne Levula; Michael Ritsche; Nicki Hickmon

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00199.1

BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate

Tuukka Petäjä (Corresponding author)
, Ewan J. O'Connor
, Dmitri Moisseev
, Victoria A. Sinclair
, Antti J. Manninen
, Riikka Väänänen
, Annakaisa von Lerber
, Joel A. Thorntoton
, Keri Nicocoll
, Walt Petersen
, V. Chandrasekar
, James N. Smith
, Paul M. Winkler
, Olaf Krüger
, Hannele Hakola
, Hilkka Timonen
, David Brus
, Tuomas Laurila
, Eija Asmi
, Marja-Liisa Riekkola

Lucia Mona, Paola Massoli, Ronny Engelmann, Mika Komppula, Jian Wang, Chongai Kuang, Jaana Bäck, Annele Virtanen, Janne Levula, Michael Ritsche, Nicki Hickmon

Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics

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Abstract

During Biogenic Aerosols—Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC), the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program deployed the Second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to Hyytiälä, Finland, for an 8-month intensive measurement campaign from February to September 2014. The primary research goal is to understand the role of biogenic aerosols in cloud formation. Hyytiälä is host to the Station for Measuring Ecosystem–Atmosphere Relations II (SMEAR II), one of the world’s most comprehensive surface in situ observation sites in a boreal forest environment. The station has been measuring atmospheric aerosols, biogenic emissions, and an extensive suite of parameters relevant to atmosphere–biosphere interactions continuously since 1996. Combining vertical profiles from AMF2 with surface-based in situ SMEAR II observations allows the processes at the surface to be directly related to processes occurring throughout the entire tropospheric column. Together with the inclusion of extensive surface precipitation measurements and intensive observation periods involving aircraft flights and novel radiosonde launches, the complementary observations provide a unique opportunity for investigating aerosol–cloud interactions and cloud-to-precipitation processes in a boreal environment. The BAECC dataset provides opportunities for evaluating and improving models of aerosol sources and transport, cloud microphysical processes, and boundary layer structures. In addition, numerical models are being used to bridge the gap between surface-based and tropospheric observations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1909-1928
Number of pages	20
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	97
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00199.1
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

Funding

This work was partly supported by the Office of Science (BER), U.S. Department of Energy via BAECC (Petaja), BAECC SNEX (Moisseev), DE-SC0011791 (Thornton), DE-SC0014469 (Smith), and ASR (Chandrasekar); European Commission via projects ACTRIS, ACTRIS-TNA, ACTRIS2, BACCHUS, and PEGASOS and European Research Council via NANO-DYNAMITE (616075); and Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence (Project 272041), KONE foundation (Grant 46-6817), Nordforsk via Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate, CRAICC, TEKES in the CLEEN/MMEA programme, and the Ministry of Transport and Communication through ICOS-Finland. The BAECC SNEX was also supported by NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission ground validation program. The deployment of AMF2 to Hyytiala was enabled and supported by ARM. Argonne National Laboratory's work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Office of Science and Technology, under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of AMF2, SMEAR II, and the BAECC community for their support in initiating the BAECC campaign, its implementation, operation, and data analysis.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 13 Climate Action

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

104002 Analytical chemistry
103039 Aerosol physics
105206 Meteorology

Keywords

NUCLEATION MODE PARTICLES
SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
BOREAL FOREST SITE
SULFURIC-ACID
SCOTS PINE
ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEATION
DOPPLER LIDAR
MASS-SPECTROMETER
CHERNOBYL FALLOUT

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Petäjä, T., O'Connor, E. J., Moisseev, D., Sinclair, V. A., Manninen, A. J., Väänänen, R., von Lerber, A., Thorntoton, J. A., Nicocoll, K., Petersen, W., Chandrasekar, V., Smith, J. N., Winkler, P. M., Krüger, O., Hakola, H., Timonen, H., Brus, D., Laurila, T., Asmi, E., ... Hickmon, N. (2016). BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(10), 1909-1928. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00199.1

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