Aerosol and Cloud Chemistry  --  Projects

AMAZE

AMazonian Aerosol characteriZation Experiment
Jan/Feb/Mar 2008

A field project in the tropical rain forest, north-west of Manaus (Brazil). The objective was to investigate the cloud nucleating ability of pristine aerosol over a tropical rain forest. We used a particle inlet mounted at 45m altitude (over the forest canopy) to sample aerosol particles. These particles were be analyzed in situ with mass spectrometers, CCN counters, optical particle counters and other devices in a measurement container on the ground.

Cooperation with:
Scot Martin (Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.), Paolo Artaxo (Univ. Sao Paulo), Meinrat O. Andreae, Uli Pöschl, (MPI-C Mainz, Germany), Toni Prenni (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.), Jose Jimenez (University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.),  Alex Gunther (NCAR, Boulder), Ali Wiedensohler, Dietrich Althausen (IfT, Leipzig, Germany), Yinon Rudich (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel), Eric Swietlicki (Lund University, Sweden)

Instruments
HR-ToF-AMS, Grimm OPC, WELAS, TSI CPC

People involved:
J. Schneider, S. Borrmann, M. Flores, M. Brands, S. Zörn, T. Böttger

Links:

--> Michel's Blog (English)
--> Michel's Pictures
--> Johannes' Tagebuch (deutsch)
--> Johannes' Pictures

--> Planning Website
--> Data Analysis Website

Results:

Schneider et al., AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2008
Zorn et al., AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2008
Chen et al., AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2008
Martin et al., AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2008