Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

  1. Quantifying the impact of the summer 2010 fires in Russia on regional air quality using regional modeling with in situ and satellite observations.
  2. Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes.
  3. Monitoring of the Atmospheric Composition in the Center of Eurasia.
  4. Trans-Continental Transport of Air Pollution from Central Asia.
  5. Temperature distribution, trace gas components, dynamic and chemical processes in the atmosphere of polar and subpolar regions.
  6. Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.
  7. Spatio-temporal characterization of boreal forest fire intensity dynamics and its impact on carbon fluxes.
  8. Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the 21st Century Based on Scientific Advancements [Theme-2: Top-down approach (via atmospheric observation) to a regional carbon budget estimation].
  9. Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.
  10. Eurasian Railway Measurements of greenhouse, ozone-depleting, and air quality gases in TRans-Siberia Observations of the Chemistry Into the Chemistry of the Atmosphere (TROICA).
  11. Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.
  12. Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands.
  13. Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.
  14. Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.
  15. Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.
  16. Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).
  17. Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges in Forests of Central Siberia: Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Severity, and Burning Conditions.
  18. Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.

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Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.

Principal Investigators: Christiane Schmullius (c.schmullius@uni-jena.de) and Roman Gerlach (roman.gerlach@uni-jena.de), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Co-Investigators: Heiko Balzter (hbal@ceh.ac.uk), NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), Monks Wood, UK
Sergey Bartalev (bartalev@d902.iki.rssi.ru), Boreal Ecosystems Monitoring Laboratory, Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Thuy Le Toan (Thuy.Letoan@cesbio.cnes.fr), Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), CNES-CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Wolfgang Lucht (wolfgang.lucht@pik-potsdam.de), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Biosphere Research Group, Potsdam, Germany
Sten Nilsson (nilsson@iiasa.ac.at) and Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Evgeni Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), Sukachev Forest Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Wolfgang Wagner (ww@ipf.tuwien.ac.at),  Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Spatio-temporal characterization of boreal forest fire intensity dynamics and its impact on carbon fluxes.

Principal Investigator: Martin Wooster (martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk), King's College, London, United Kingdom
Co-Investigators: Heiko Balzter (hbal@ceh.ac.uk), NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), Huntington, UK
France Gerard, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Huntington, UK
Jörg Kaduk, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Gareth Roberts, King's College, London, UK
Tim Lynham, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Anatoly Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Collaborators: Alexander Onuchin and Anatoly Sukhinin, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the 21st Century Based on Scientific Advancements [Theme-2: Top-down approach (via atmospheric observation) to a regional carbon budget estimation]

Principal Investigators: Gen Inoue (inouegen@nies.go.jp), Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp), and Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Tsukuba, Japan
Co-Investigators: Boris Belan and Mikhail Arshinov, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Nikolay Vinnichenko, Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudny, Russia
Ilyas Gadzhiev, Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia
Sergey Mitin, Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Innokenti Plusnin, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia
Nikolay Fedoseev, Permafrost Research Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.

Principal Investigator: Masami Fukuda (mfukuda@pop.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp or Masami.Fukuda@ma4.seikyou.ne.jp ), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Co-Investigator: Kunihide Takahashi (kun23@for.agr.hokudai.ac.jp), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Collaborators: Aleksander Fedorov, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Trofim Mikhailov and Roman Desyatkin, both at the RAS Institute of Biological Problems in the Cryosphere, Yakutsk, Russia

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Eurasian Railway Measurements of greenhouse, ozone-depleting, and air quality gases in TRans-Siberia Observations of the Chemistry Into the Chemistry of the Atmosphere (TROICA)

Principal Investigator: James W. Elkins (james.w.elkins@noaa.gov), NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado USA
Co-investigator: Dale F. Hurst, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado USA
Collaborators: Nikolai F. Elansky, Obukhov Institute Of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
Carl A.M. Brenninkmeijer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.

Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Gari Kofinas, Uma Bhatt, and Vladimir Romanovsky, all University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Josefino Comiso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Howard Epstein, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Collaborators: Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Scientists from the Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia

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Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands.

Principal Investigator: Irina Sokolik (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Co-Investigators: Robert Dickinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Yongjiu Dai, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
George Golitsyn, Obukhov Institute of Atrmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Rimma Bektursunova, Eurasian National University, Akmolla, Kazakhstan
Beatrice Marticorena, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Gilles Bergametti, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Dulam Jugder, Institute Meteorology and Hydrology, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Yaping Shao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Itsushi Uno, Institute Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Masao Mikami, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Youngsin Chun, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, Korea

Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.

Principal Investigator: Amber Soja (a.j.soja@larc.nasa.gov), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Co-Investigators: David Westberg and Paul Stackhouse both with NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Anatoly Sukhinin, Galina Ivanova, Elena Parfenova, and Nadezhda Tsebakova, all at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Sib. Branch RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
Hank Shugart, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.

Principal Investigator: Anatoly Gitelson (gitelson@calmit.unl.edu), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Co-Investigator: Geoffrey M. Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Collaborators: Ludmila Kosmenko and Boris Suhorukov, Hydro-chemical Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Michael Popov and Ludmila Serenko, Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Institute of Geosciences UNAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.

Principal Investigator: Tatyjana Loboda (tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu ), University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Co-Investigator: Chris Justice, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA

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Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).

Principal Investigators: Jaakko Kukkonen (Jaakko.Kukkonen@fmi.fi) and Mikhail Sofiev (mikhail.sofiev@fmi.fi), Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research & Meteorological Research, Helsinki, Finland
Co-Investigators: Pilvi Siljamo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Drs. Auli Rantio-Lehtimaki and Hanna Ranta, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Heikki Hanninen and Tapio Linkosalo, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eero Kubin, The Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Finland
Siegfried Jager, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Alexander Baklanov and Alix Rasmussen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eugene L. Genikhovich, Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Elena Severova Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Kjell Arild Hogda, NORUT IT AS, Norway

Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges in Forests of Central Siberia: Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Severity, and Burning Conditions.

Principal Investigator: Susan G. Conard (sconard@fs.fed.us), USDA Forest Service, USA
Co-Investigators: Wei Min Hao, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, USA
Douglas J. McRae, Canadian Forest Service, Canada
Galina A. Ivanova, and Anatoly I. Sukhinin, RASSB Sukachev Institute of Forest Research, Russia

Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Ivan Csiszar (icsiszar@hermes.geog.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Tatiana Loboda, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Collaborators: Dmitry Ershov, Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity, Moscow, Russia
Alexey Mazurov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Belov, Institute for Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Anatoly Sukhinin, Sukachev Forest Institute, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Sergei Tashchilin, Institute for Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia

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Temperature distribution, trace gas components, dynamic and chemical processes in the atmosphere of polar and subpolar regions.

Principal Investigator: Nikolay F. Elansky (n.f.elansky@mail.ru), RAS Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Andreas Stohl (ast@nilu.no), Norsk institutt for luftforskning, Kjeller, Norway
James W. Elkins (james.w.elkins@noaa.gov), NOAA/Earth System Research Lab., Boulder, Colorado USA
Irina N. Sokolik, (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Trans-Continental Transport of Air Pollution from Central Asia.

Principal Investigator: Igor Granberg (igran@ifaran.ru, igranberg@gmail.com), A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Co-Investigators: Boris B. Chen (lidar@istc.kg), Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek,Kyrgyz Republic
Vladimir P. Makarov (makarov44@rambler.ru), Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Academy Sciences, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Collaborators: Gregory R. Carmichael (gregory-carmichael@uiowa.edu), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Jamie Schauer (jjschauer@wisc.edu), Water Science and Engineering Laboratory, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Paul A. Solomon (solomon.paul@epamail.epa.gov), US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Monitoring of the Atmospheric Composition in the Center of Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Felix V. Kashin (kashin@typhoon.obninsk.ru), State Institute, Research and Production Association "Typhoon", Obninsk, Kaluga area, Russia br>Co-Investigators: Nikita Ye. Kamenogradsky (nikita@typhoon.obninsk.ru) and Vladimir N. Aref'ev, State Institute, Research and Production Association "Typhoon", Obninsk, Kaluga area, Russia
Valery P. Sinyakov, Kyrgyzstan State National University, Bishkek, The Republic of Kyrgyzstan

Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Amber. Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov), National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Co-Investigators: Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., (paul.w.stackhouse@nasa.gov), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Nadezda Tchebakova (ncheby@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Irina N. Sokolik (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Mian Chin (mian.chin@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Qian Tan (qiantan@nasa.gov), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Elena Parfenova (lyeti@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, and
Jacquelyn Shuman (jmk9m@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Collaborator: Galina Lysanova, Institute of Geography, Irkutsk, Russia

The following Russian-French joint project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, funded by RFBR (Russia) and CNRS (France) for the next 3 years was launched in summer 2012:

Quantifying the impact of the summer 2010 fires in Russia on regional air quality using regional modeling with in situ and satellite observations.

Principal Investigators: Igor I. Mokhov, A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia and
Solene Turquety, University of Pierre and Marie Curie / Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (IPSL), Toulouse, France
Co-Investigators: Mirseid Akperov, Alexander Chernokulsky, Alexey Eliseev, Konstantin Moiseenko, Natalia Pankratova, Karim Shukurov, Roman Shumsky, Anastasia Vasilieva all at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia and
Laurent Menut, Stavros Stromatas, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, and Hervé Le Treut, all at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie / Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (IPSL), Toulouse, France

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