Rebecca Anderson

Post Graduate Scientist
TIIMES - ACD
UTLS

Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: FL0-3544
Telephone: 303-497-1493
Email: rsa@ucar.edu
POP Group Home Page

Project Summary:

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PASE: The Christmas Island atole from the C-130. Picture credit: Dirk Richter

I am working on the HOx/RO2 instrument for the NCAR-NSF GV (HIAPER) through the Upper Troposphere-Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) TIIMES initiative for the upcoming Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Experiment (DC3) Field experiment for approximately 5 months. During this time, work on the instrument design has been discussed, and a number of pumps and other components have been selected and ordered. At this point, a new vacuum system has been ordered that will be used as a prototype for the vacuum system on the aircraft, and may result in being one of the final vacuum systems for the HOx/RO2 instrument. The next year will see significant work on the construction and testing of many of the components for the instrument, beginning with the OH instrument.

We deployed our instrumentation in the Megacities Impact on Regional & Global Environment (MIRAGE), the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment (INTEX-B) campaigns and the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE) field sudies and are now analyzing the data.

Community Service:

• K-12 Activity: Science Presentations and demonstrations designed to interest elementary age girls in the sciences, Boulder, CO USA

Presentations:

• Convective-Scale Cloud Chemistry Simulations of a Thunderstorm, S&T, Boulder USA, October 07
• Convective-Scale Cloud Chemistry Simulations of a Thunderstorm, S&T, Ft. Collins USA, October 07
• The Role of Deep Convection on the Composition of the Upper Troposphere, S&T, Beijing CHN, October 07
• Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3): A Field Experiment Planned for May-June 2010, S&T, San Francisco USA, October 07
• Processing of Chemical Constituents by Deep Convection, S&T, San Francisco USA, October 07
• Convective-Scale Cloud Chemistry Simulations of a Thunderstorm, S&T, Leeds GBR, October 07
• Implementation of Lightning Production of NOx into WRF, S&T, Boulder USA, October 07

TIIMES External Collaborators:

Wiliam Brune, Pennsylvania State University
Owen Cooper, University of Colorado
James Crawford, Langley Research Center (LARC) - NASA
Paul Krehbiel, New Mexico Institute of Technology
Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota
Kenneth Pickering, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) - NASA
Steven Rutledge, Colorado State University