Asian Aerosol Samples Introduction Aerosols have important climate implications, for instance by cooling the Earth on the order of as much as CO 2 heats it. Any single measurement of atmospheric properties is almost useless due to strong diurnal, synoptic, seasonal, and annual cycles.
Aerosols are the major uncertainty associated with global climate models.
Without measurement of the size, shape, and composition of aerosols, their source, transformation, transport and impacts cannot be unambiguously determined. Therefore, accurate and sensitive sampling and analytical techniques MUST be developed to allow detailed size and time resolved aerosol composition at many sites simultaneously. Quantitative elemental composition from Na through Fe. Na through Pb. Advanced Light Source LBNL Focussed polarized white or tunable mono-energetic beam with high photon flux.