Call for abstracts: “Atmospheric Aerosols: Chemistry, Clouds, and Climate” at ACS

You are invited to submit abstracts to the symposium “Atmospheric Aerosols: Chemistry, Clouds, and Climate,” to be presented through the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR) at the 242nd ACS National Meeting, Denver CO, August 28, 2011 through September 1, 2011. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: connections between aerosol chemistry and cloud droplet and ice particle nucleation, the atmospheric chemistry of “brown carbon”, and the impacts of advances in modeling aerosol chemistry on climate predictions.

Abstract submission is currently open at http://abstracts.acs.org and will remain open until March 21, 2011.

We hope to see you in Denver!

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ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS: CHEMISTRY, CLOUDS, and CLIMATE

Atmospheric aerosols impact Earth’s climate via direct interactions with solar and terrestrial radiation and indirectly by influencing droplet formation and cloud properties. Aerosols provide a net negative radiative forcing on climate that may be comparable in magnitude to the positive forcing by CO₂. However, significant gaps in our scientific understanding of aerosol-related climate forcings have resulted in very large uncertainties in the estimates of their magnitudes. The goal of this symposium is to highlight recent advances in understanding the connections between the composition and chemical transformations of atmospheric particles and their direct and indirect effects on climate.  The theme of this year’s National Meeting is “Chemistry: Air, Space and Water,” and this symposium is part of the thematic programming.