SeReNA Project: remote sensing of cloud microphysics and its interaction with atmospheric aerosols

• Grant number: 10/15959-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2011
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Meteorology
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Lima Correia
• Grantee: Alexandre Lima Correia
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Fernando Gonçalves Morais

Abstract

This project will study experimentally the vertical profile of cloud microphysics and its response to the atmospheric load of aerosols, with a level of spatial and temporal detail that cannot be paralleled by current experimental techniques. This research topic is important for weather and climate since aerosols can change the mean lifetime of clouds, their reflective properties, the local thermodynamic conditions within clouds, and their precipitation patterns. These elements have direct influence over Earth's radiative balance, its hydrological and energetic cycles, and they are responsible for a large fraction of the uncertainty in climatic models. In this kind of study measurements using meteorological radars and in situ research aircraft are powerful tools, but they lack the necessary temporal and/or spatial accuracy to fully address the processes occurring in single clouds. This project will retrieve the vertical profile of effective radius of water droplets and ice particles in single clouds, by using measurements of the emerging radiation on cloud sides, while simultaneously measuring meteorological conditions and the aerosol loading in the vicinity of the cloud under analysis. The radiance measurements will be interpreted a posteriori with the aid of radiative transfer simulations in order to retrieve vertical profiles of droplet sizes. The PI for this project has successfully taken part in building, calibrating, and field testing a prototype of the instrumentation system discussed here, and keeps scientific exchanges with research groups that use a similar system. This project is part of the ongoing FAPESP Thematic Project AEROCLIMA no. 2008/58100-2, and it will contribute to the following research themes from the FAPESP Research Program on Global Climatic Changes: (a) consequences of climatic changes on water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles; and (b) radiation balance in the atmosphere, aerosols, trace gases and land use changes. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PEREIRA, GUILHERME MARTINS; DA SILVA CAUMO, SOFIA ELLEN; GRANDIS, ADRIANA; MOTA DO NASCIMENTO, EMERSON QUEIROZ; CORREIA, ALEXANDRE LIMA; JORGE BARBOSA, HENRIQUE DE MELO; MARCONDES, MARTA ANGELA; BUCKERIDGE, MARCOS SILVEIRA; VASCONCELLOS, PEROLA DE CASTRO. Physical and chemical characterization of the 2019 ``black rain{''} event in the Metropolitan Area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Atmospheric Environment, v. 248, MAR 1 2021. (14/50884-5, 10/15959-3, 19/01316-8, 19/13936-0, 16/23339-1, 16/18866-2, 18/16608-1, 08/57908-6)

OSTERMAYER, CHRISTIAN LANG; CORREIA, ALEXANDRE L.. Characterizing the temperature response of a Hg-Cd-Te camera for field applications. HELIYON, v. 6, n. 4, APR 2020. (10/15959-3)

CORREIA, ALEXANDRE L.; CATANDI, PATRICIA B.. Deriving cloud microphysics from radiometric measurements in the Amazon Basin. Atmospheric Science Letters, v. 17, n. 11, p. 596-602, NOV 2016. (10/15959-3)

CORREIA, ALEXANDRE L.; MENDONCA, MARINA M.; NOBREGA, THIAGO F.; PUGLIESI, ANDRE C.; CECCHINI, MICAEL A.. Multi-Year Study of GOES-13 Droplet Effective Radius Retrievals for Warm Clouds over South America and Southeast Pacifi. TMOSPHER, v. 13, n. 1, JAN 2022. (20/13273-9, 10/15959-3)

CORREIA, ALEXANDRE L.; SENA, ELISA T.; SILVA DIAS, MARIA A. F.; KOREN, ILAN. reconditioning, aerosols, and radiation control the temperature of glaciation in Amazonian cloud. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, v. 2, n. 1, AUG 19 2021. (10/15959-3)

DA SILVA, JONATAN; MORAIS, FERNANDO G.; FRANCO, MARCO A.; LOPES, FABIO J. S.; ARRUDA, GREGORI DE A.; YOSHIDA, ALEXANDRE C.; CORREIA, ALEXANDRE; LANDULFO, EDUARDO; LIU, D; WANG, Y; et al. EXPLORING THE TWILIGHT ZONE: A MULTI-SENSOR APPROACH. RICAP16, 6TH ROMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, v. 237, p. 4-pg., 2020-01-01. (10/15959-3, 15/12793-0, 18/03413-8)

SENA, E. T.; ARTAXO, P.; CORREIA, A. L.. Spatial variability of the direct radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosols and the effects of land use change in Amazonia. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v. 13, n. 3, p. 1261-1275, 2013. (09/08442-7, 10/15959-3, 08/58100-2)

TEN HOEVE, J. E.; REMER, L. A.; CORREIA, A. L.; JACOBSON, M. Z.. Recent shift from forest to savanna burning in the Amazon Basin observed by satellite. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, v. 7, n. 2, APR-JUN 2012. (10/15959-3)