ACTIVATE Data Webinar Materials

Here you will find resources and material from ACTIVATE's Data Webinars and Workshops

November 2023

The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team hosted a free open data workshop in the form of its annual science team meeting on November 13-15, 2023, at the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona). This meeting featured an overview talk about ACTIVATE and its data, science talks by participants associated with the science team, and interactive sessions for in-person participants.

Materials

Webinar Agenda

Presenter	Title	View Slides (PDF)	Download Video Presentation (mp4)
Sorooshian	Welcome/Introductions/Logistics/Goals	Click Here	Click Here
Sorooshian	Team Progress to Date & Data Details	Click Here	Click Here
ASDC	SOOT for ACTIVATE: reaching aerosol research communities	Click Here	Click Here
Liu	Tropospheric Aerosols Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean During May-June ACTIVATE 2021 and 2022: Transport, Distribution, and Sources	Click Here	Click Here
Silva	CO/CO2 and aerosol composition data	Click Here	Click Here
Gao/Redemann	Machine Learning Shines a Laser Light on Murky Aerosol Picture	Click Here	Click Here
Wood	Observations and understanding of the role of giant CCN in influencing warm rain production from shallow liquid clouds in ACTIVATE	Click Here	Click Here
Zeng Group (Xu, Siu, Cutler)	Updates on multiple projects	Click Here	Click Here
Chellappan	Cloud macro- and microphysical characterized from ASTER underflights during ACTIVATE	Click Here	Click Here
Crosbie	ACTIVATE Summer Process Study Cloud Analysis	Click Here	Click Here
Soloff	Bridging Gas and Aerosol Properties between Northeast US and Bermuda	Click Here	Click Here
Ajayi	A Unique Vertical Characterization of Aerosol Over Bermuda	Click Here	Click Here
Edwards	PFAS in Cloud Water Over the Northwestern Atlantic	Click Here	Click Here
Chen	Impacts of Gulf Stream Variations on Marine Post Frontal Cloud Transitions	Click Here	Click Here
Li	Quantifying Aerosol-Cloud Interactions	Click Here	Click Here
Tang	Single-Column Model Simulations: Results and Plan	Click Here	Click Here
Zhang	Emergent Properties of Complex Aerosol-Cloud-Meteorology Interactions	Click Here	Click Here
Zuidema	Cold air outbreak analysis	Click Here	Click Here
Tornow	Updates on efforts for cold-air outbreak cloud feedback	Click Here	Click Here
Sorooshian	Open discussion on data usage lessons	Click Here	Click Here
Cutler	Data gridding	Click Here	Click Here
Cairns	RSP Liquid Water Path	Click Here	Click Here
Diskin	DLH Update	Click Here	Click Here
Sorooshian	Overview paper goals: what do we want to tell the community about the project	Click Here	Click Here
Schlosser/Dmitrovic	Updates on platform collocation data product and aerosol property closure	Click Here	Click Here
Ziemba	Absorbing aerosol vertical profiles over Bermuda	Click Here	Click Here
Ferrare	Aerosol hygroscopicity derived from HSRL-2 measurements	Click Here	Click Here
Park	Idealized cold air outbreak ensemble simulations	Click Here	Click Here
Xu	Intercomparison of PBLH methods	Click here	Click Here
Wang	Organic surface coating analysis and modeling	Click Here	Click Here

November 2022

The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team hosted an open data workshop on November 7, 2022 for anyone interested in learning how to access and visualize airborne data. This workshop went over the progress of the ACTIVATE campaign to date, as well as diving into some of the measurement techniques and data archival processes. The workshop featured talks by all groups associated with the science team to discuss status and applications associated with instrument and modeling datasets. The webinar aimed to motivate the ongoing studies of aerosol-cloud interactions and the importance of airborne measurements.

Materials

Open Data Workshop Agenda

Presenter	Title	View Slides (PDF)	Download Video Presentation (mp4)
Sorooshian	Welcome/Introductions/Logistics/Goals	Click Here	Click Here
Smith	Remarks by Deborah Smith	Click Here	Click Here
Sorooshian	Overall Team Progress to Date	Click Here	Click Here
Shook	LaRC/ASDC Data Team	Click Here	Click Here
ASDC	LaRC/ASDC Data Team	Click Here	Click Here
Ziemba/Crosbie	Falcon: LARGE (aerosol, cloud water)	Click Here	Click Here
DiGangi	Falcon: Gas	Click Here	Click Here
Moore	Falcon: Cloud + CCN	Click Here	Click Here
Voigt	Falcon: Cloud + CCN	Click Here	Click Here
Thornhill	Falcon: TAMMS	Click Here	Click Here
Bennett	King Air: Navigation/Meteorology	Click Here	Click Here
Cairns	King Air-RSP	Click Here	Click Here
Shingler	King Air-HSRL2	Click Here	Click Here
Thornhill/Robinson	King Air: Dropsondes	Click Here	Click Here
Zuidema	U-Miami	Click Here	Click Here
McComiskey	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Click Here	Click Here
Painemal	LaRC Satellite group	Click Here	Click Here
Zeng	U-Arizona	Click Here	Click Here
Wang	PNNL	Click Here	Click Here
Tornow/Ackerman	NASA GISS	Click Here	Click Here
Liu	LaRC/NASA	Click Here	Click Here
Sorooshian	Team Updates	Click Here	Click Here

September 2022

The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team led an open data workshop webinar hosted by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) for anyone interested to learn how to access and visualize airborne data. This webinar went over the science motivation of ACTIVATE, as well as included activities to expose participants to Python. The webinar aimed to motivate the study of aerosol-cloud interactions and the importance of airborne measurements as well as use the Google Colaboratory (Google Colab) environment to examine atmospheric properties derived from both in situ and remote sensing products.

Materials

Webinar Recording Webpage

July 2022

The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team hosted a free open data workshop webinar series for anyone interested to learn how to use the airborne data and to promote dialogue about data analysis ideas and collaborative projects in the area of aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions. This particular session trained interested attendees to use a Google Colaboratory (i.e., Google Colab) environment for data visualization and to examine atmospheric properties derived from both in situ and remote sensing products.

Materials

Tools for Analyzing Datasets from ACTIVATE (TADA)
Create a Gmail Account
Setup EarthData Login
ACTIVATE Research Flight 29 Video
11 July 2021: Webinar activities (Slides 19-39) Presented to Philippines high schools and universities

October 2021

The ACTIVATE team hosted an open data workshop with over 70 participants over a two-day period from October 20-21, 2021. The purpose of this workshop was to introduce the ACTIVATE project to a larger, international, pool of atmospheric sciences and applications communities. The first day of the workshop covered how to access and utilize ACTIVATE data, a case study on ACTIVATE Research Flight 12 – a statistical survey flight, and ended with a discussion on using data. Day two began with the second case study on Research Flights 13 and 14 – both of which were process study flights – and ended with a continuation on the discussion from the previous day.

Materials

Meeting Agenda
Day 1 Video
Day 2 Video
ACTIVATE Research Flight 29 Video

Presenter	Title	Download Recording with Audio	Download Slides (PDF)
Sorooshian	Introduction to ACTIVATE	Click Here	Click Here
Ziemba	Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment (LARGE) Instrumentation	Click Here	Click Here
Moore	Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment (LARGE) Cloud Instrumentation	Click Here	Click Here
Kirschler	German Aerospace Center (DLR) Cloud Measurements	Click Here	Click Here
Crosbie	Cloud Water	Click Here	Click Here
Diskin	Diode Laser Hygrometer (DLH) and Trace Gas	Click Here	Click Here
Thornhill	Turbulent Air Motion Measurement System (TAMMS)	Click Here	Click here
Robinson	Dropsondes	Click Here	Click Here
Hostetler	High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) - 2	Click Here	Click Here
Cairns	Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP)	Click Here	Click Here
Corral	Explaining Leg Indices	Click Here	Click Here
Delgado	Co-Locating Measurements	Click Here	Click Here
Schlosser	Intro to Data Visualization	Click Here	Click Here
Wang	WRF Process Modeling	Click Here	Click Here
Liu/Zhang	MERRA-2 Reanalysis & Trajectory Products	Click Here	Click Here
Tornow	GISS Modeling - Understanding Cloud Transitions in Cold Air Outbreaks	Click Here	Click Here
Chellappan	Cold Air Outbreaks in ERA5 and MERRA2	Click Here	Click Here
Painemal	NASA Langley Satellite Support	Click Here	Click Here