Aerosol Retrieval Using Remote-sensed Observations by Yueqing Wang Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics with the Designated Emphasis in Communication, Computation, and Statistics University of California, Berkeley Professor Bin Yu, Chair Atmospheric aerosols are solid particles and liquid droplets that are usually smaller than the diameter of a human hair. They can be found drifting in the air in...

The equilibrium response of atmospheric circulation to the direct radiative effects of natural or anthropogenic aerosols is investigated using the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3) coupled to two different ocean boundary conditions: prescribed climatological sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and a slab ocean model. Anthropogenic and natural aerosols significantly affect the circulation but in nea...

Several therapeutic effects including hypnotic, antispasmodic, treatment of abdominal and chest pain and strengthening the heart have been described for the flowers of Rosa damascena. North American Indian tribes use a decoction of the roots obtained from the Rosa damascena plant as a cough remedy and to treat eye problem. Therefore, in the present study the antitussive effect of this plant in ...

Atmospheric aerosols, an important component of the atmosphere, are derived from a variety of sources (natural and anthropogenic) and comprise of wide-range of particles having different chemical composition, size (0.001 μm to 100 μm), shape and optical properties. They are mainly confined to the lower troposphere wherein intense vertical and horizontal mixing takes place. As a consequence, lar...

Because industrial emissions of anthropogenic aerosols over East Asia have greatly increased in recent decades, the interactions between atmospheric aerosols and the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) have attracted enormous attention. To further understand the aerosol-EASM interaction, we investigate the impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on the EASM during the multidecadal strong (1950–1977) and...

Aerosol is becoming a central theme in the climate research arena, due to many new findings concerning their significant direct and indirect effects on climate (e.g. by altering temperature, cloud, radiation and precipitation) and to the large uncertainties in our estimates of aerosol forcing on climate. Despite the large loading and complex properties of East Asian aerosols, our knowledge of t...

Each year more than 100Tg of smoke aerosols are released into the atmosphere from biomass burning out of which 80% is in the tropical regions (Hao and Liu, 1994). These aerosols affect the radiative energy balance of the earthatmosphere system both on regional and global scales. Satellite remote sensing plays a key role in biomass burning research by identifying fire sources and the spatial dis...

BACKGROUND Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common bacterial pathogen in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Current infection control guidelines aim to prevent transmission via contact and respiratory droplet routes and do not consider the possibility of airborne transmission. It was hypothesised that subjects with CF produce viable respirable bacterial aerosols with coughing. METHODS A cr...

It is well-known that aerosols affect clouds and that the effect of aerosols on clouds is critical for understanding human-induced climate change. Most climate model studies have focused on the effect of aerosols on warm stratiform clouds (e.g., stratocumulus clouds) for the prediction of climate change. However, systems like the Asian and Indian Monsoon, storm tracks, and the intertropical con...

determining the promising area for ore deposits is one of the most important steps of prospecting in regional scales. there are many different methods for identifying these areas including geochemical and geophysical methods, remote sensing and sophisticated statistical methods. based on the theory of spatial relations between the dispersion pattern of ore deposits and metallogenic provinces, m...