Browsing Faculty Research Publications (College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences) by Author "Ismail, Syed"

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The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis

Zipser, Edward J.; Twohy, Cynthia; Tsay, Si-Chee; Thornhill, K. Lee; Tanelli, Simone; Ross, Robert; Krishnamurti, T. N.; Ji, Q.; Jenkins, Gregory; Ismail, Syed; Hsu, N. Christina; Hood, Robbie; Heymsfield, Gerald M.; Heymsfield, Andrew; Halverson, Jeffrey; Goodman, H. Michael; Ferrare, Richard; Dunion, Jason P.; Douglas, Michael; Cifelli, Robert; Chen, Gao; Browell, Edward V.; Anderson, Bruce (American Meteorological Society, 2009-08)

In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft and surface-based equipment were based on Ca ...
Saharan dust particles nucleate droplets in eastern Atlantic clouds

Twohy, Cynthia; Kreidenweis, Sonia M.; Eidhammer, Trude; Browell, Edward V.; Heymsfield, Andrew J.; Bansemer, Aaron R.; Anderson, Bruce E.; Chen, Gao; Ismail, Syed; DeMott, Paul J.; Van Den Heever, Susan C. (American Geophysical Union, 2009)

Many soil-derived particles dominated by insoluble material, including Saharan dusts, are known to act as ice nuclei. If, however, dust particles can compete with other atmospheric particle types to form liquid cloud dro ...