@article{cd7e975511854c108e6f5dc1918094f8,
title = "Atmospheric Research Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean Region and North American East Coast: A Review of Past Work and Challenges Ahead",
abstract = "Decades of atmospheric research have focused on the Western North Atlantic Ocean (WNAO) region because of its unique location that offers accessibility for airborne and ship measurements, gradients in important atmospheric parameters, and a range of meteorological regimes leading to diverse conditions that are poorly understood. This work reviews these scientific investigations for the WNAO region, including the East Coast of North America and the island of Bermuda. Over 50 field campaigns and long-term monitoring programs, in addition to 715 peer-reviewed publications between 1946 and 2019, have provided a firm foundation of knowledge for these areas. Of particular importance in this region has been extensive work at the island of Bermuda that is host to important time series records of oceanic and atmospheric variables. Our review categorizes WNAO atmospheric research into eight major categories, with some studies fitting into multiple categories (relative %): aerosols (25%); gases (24%); development/validation of techniques, models, and retrievals (18%); meteorology and transport (9%); air-sea interactions (8%); clouds/storms (8%); atmospheric deposition (7%); and aerosol-cloud interactions (2%). Recommendations for future research are provided in the categories highlighted above.",
keywords = "ACTIVATE, Aerosol, Atlantic Ocean, Cloud, Deposition, Gas",
author = "Armin Sorooshian and Corral, {Andrea F.} and Braun, {Rachel A.} and Brian Cairns and Ewan Crosbie and Richard Ferrare and Johnathan Hair and Kleb, {Mary M.} and {Hossein Mardi}, Ali and Hal Maring and Allison McComiskey and Richard Moore and David Painemal and Scarino, {Amy Jo} and Joseph Schlosser and Taylor Shingler and Michael Shook and Hailong Wang and Xubin Zeng and Luke Ziemba and Paquita Zuidema",
note = "Funding Information: ACTIVATE is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital‐3 (EVS‐3) investigation, funded by NASA's Earth Science Division and managed through the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program Office. The lead author (A. S.) acknowledges support from NASA Grant 80NSSC19K0442 in support of ACTIVATE. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract DE‐AC05‐76RLO1830. We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application ( https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov ), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Data used in this study are available online ( https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov ). The authors acknowledge useful input from three anonymous reviewers. Funding Information: ACTIVATE is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-3 (EVS-3) investigation, funded by NASA's Earth Science Division and managed through the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program Office. The lead author (A. S.) acknowledges support from NASA Grant 80NSSC19K0442 in support of ACTIVATE. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract DE-AC05-76RLO1830. We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Data used in this study are available online (https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov). The authors acknowledge useful input from three anonymous reviewers. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright}2020. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1029/2019JD031626",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "125",
journal = "Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres",
issn = "2169-897X",
number = "6",
}