Read more about the article Cloud response to co-condensation of water and organic vapors over the boreal forest
Illustration: The organic vapor condensation with water vapor (co-condensation) in rising air below clouds is modelled in this work over the boreal forest, because the forest air is rich in organic vapor (Heikkinen et al., 2024).

Cloud response to co-condensation of water and organic vapors over the boreal forest

FORCeS participants Liine Heikkinen, Daniel Partridge, Sara Blichner, Rahul Ranjan, Tuukka Petäjä, Claudia Mohr, and Ilona Riipinen just published a study investigating cloud response to co-condensation of water and organic…

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Read more about the article Investigating the interplay between aerosols and moisture in shaping cloud dynamics
Figure (a–c) Cloud cover and (d–f) liquid water path along the three trajectories as a function of time from SEVIRI (NASA) and the MIMICA simulations (liquid water path is in-cloud in MIMICA). The cloud cover and liquid water path output from MIMICA have a time resolution of 15 min, and values are smoothed using a 1 h moving average (Pérez, A. et al., 2024)

Investigating the interplay between aerosols and moisture in shaping cloud dynamics

Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, this study focuses on understanding how biomass burning plumes influence the behaviour of stratocumulus clouds over the southeast Atlantic region during the period of…

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Read more about the article Proposed paradigm shift in atmospheric NPF investigations
Figure: Schematics of the new method proposed in this paper to characterize both regional and local NPF, from Kulmala et al. (2024).

Proposed paradigm shift in atmospheric NPF investigations

A newly published opinion article in Copernicus Aerosol Research by FORCeS participants Tuukka Petäjä and Pauli Paasonen from University of Helsinki proposes a paradigm shift in atmospheric NPF investigations. New…

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Read more about the article Modeling Organic Aerosol Changes in the Southeastern US: Assessing Biogenic and Anthropogenic Influences from 2001 to 2010
Illustration from Dinkelacker et al., (2024) paper. Contiguous United States simulation domain. The boundary of the southeast United States, for the purposes of the analysis in this work is highlighted in red.

Modeling Organic Aerosol Changes in the Southeastern US: Assessing Biogenic and Anthropogenic Influences from 2001 to 2010

FORCeS and FORTH project participants Ksakousti Skyllakou (WP1) and Prof. Spyros Pandis (WP1 and WP5) are co-author on the newly published paper “Predicted and observed changes in summertime biogenic and…

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Read more about the article New community effort to coordinate the construction of a Generalized Aerosol/Chemistry Interface (GIANT)
GIANT is a common interface allowing the exchange of information on aerosol state and properties between any host model (atmospheric model, Earth system model, or idealized driver) and any aerosol package. GIANT will leverage several ongoing community efforts such as MUSICA, which is aimed at coupling CAM physics driven by the SE, MPAS, or FV3 dynamical cores with CARMA and MAM aerosol packages, or EAGLES which is focused on coupling the improved MAM with the next generation E3SM written largely in C++ for exascale performance of convection-permitting simulations. As illustrated here, this effort will increase the portability of aerosol modules between community models. Aerosol chemistry modules contain aerosol processes such as coagulation, gas-particle partitioning, new particle formation, aerosol and cloud chemistry, aerosol optical properties, etc. Additional host models and aerosol chemistry modules are expected to join this effort in the future.

New community effort to coordinate the construction of a Generalized Aerosol/Chemistry Interface (GIANT)

A new FORCeS paper was published on November 16th in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, authored by Hodzic et al. (2023). In this paper, the authors announce a new…

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Read more about the article Fostering Diversity Dialogues: Insights from the Diversity Lunch Initiative
Ove Haugvaldstad, PhD student at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo, Norway, who, together with Stella Manavi, PhD student at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas in Patras, Greece, were organizers of the Diversity Lunch. Photo: Stella Papadopoulou

Fostering Diversity Dialogues: Insights from the Diversity Lunch Initiative

Diversity and inclusion are crucial aspects of any scientific community, and fostering open conversations on these topics is essential for progress. In a world where science often thrives on specialized…

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