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ates can be understood by production from the measured
hydrocarbon precursors. Loss processes of glyoxal to the
aerosol phase were quantified and were found to represent
0-13% of the observed SOA formation.
Product: Washenfelder, RA, CJ Young, SS Brown, WM
Angevine, EL Atlas, DR Blake, DM Bon, MJ Cubison, JA de
Gouw, S Dusanter, J Flynn, JB Gilman, M Graus, S Griffith,
N Grossberg, PL Hayes, JL Jimenez, WC Kuster, BL Lefer,
IB Pollack, TB Ryerson, H Stark, PS Stevens, and MK
Trainer, The glyoxal budget and its contribution to organic
aerosol for Los Angeles, California, during CalNex 2010,
submitted to J. of Geophys. Res.–Atmos.
Instrumented trailers and sampling towers at the ground site on the
campus of Caltech University in Pasadena, Calif., during the CalNex study
in 2010.
INTEGRATINGACTIVITIES
IA-01 Science and Society
n CSD-10 Scientific Assessments for Decision Makers
n Policy-01 Science Policy Lecture Series
n DIR-01 Science Communications for Diverse Audiences
CSD-10ScientificAssessmentsforDecisionMakers
FEDERAL LEAD: A.R. RAVISHANKARA
CIRES LEAD: CHRISTINE ENNIS
NOAA Goals 2 and 3: Climate and Weather and Water
Project Goal: Plan, lead, prepare and disseminate assessments
for the decision-making communities associated with ozonelayer
depletion, greenhouse warming and regional air quality.
Milestone 1: Organize and oversee the international peer
review of the United Nations Environment Programme/
World Meteorological Organization 2010 scientific stateof-understanding
assessment of the ozone layer for the
U.N. Montreal Protocol; complete the editing and publishing
of the final report; and deliver the report to the
Montreal Protocol decision makers and the worldwide
scientific community. Impact: This CIRES research supports
the decision making of the more than 190 nations
that are Parties to the United Nations Montreal Protocol
132 CIRES Annual Report 2011
on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
At the end of December 2010, the international scientific
state-of-understanding assessment report on the ozone
layer was delivered to the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP). The report was prepared for the nations
that are Parties to the Montreal Protocol, the United
Nations agreement that protects the Earth’s stratospheric
ozone layer (all nations are now signatories to that agreement).
Updated every four years, the ozone assessment
describes the latest scientific findings related to the ozone
layer and informs decisions made under the Montreal
Protocol to protect the ozone layer from depletion by chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs) and other ozone-depleting substances.
More than 300 international scientists authored
and reviewed the 2010 report, which is prepared under
the auspices of UNEP and the World Meteorological Organization
and with leadership by NOAA, NASA and the
European Commission. CIRES scientists played key roles
in coordinating, authoring, reviewing and editing the report,
as well as preparing it for printing and distribution
worldwide. Among the major findings of the 2010 report
is that climate change and the ozone layer are intricately
coupled, and that climate change will become increasingly
important to the future ozone layer as ozone-depleting
substances diminish in the atmosphere.
Product: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010,
World Meteorological Organization Global Ozone Research
and Monitoring Project, Report No. 52, 516 pp.,
Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.
Policy-01SciencePolicyLectureSeries
Covers of the full
assessment report, its
Executive Summary
and the companion
document answering
frequently asked
questions about
the ozone layer and
ozone depletion.
CIRES LEAD: ROBERTA KLEIN
NOAA Goals 2 and 3: Climate and Weather and Water
Project Goal: Provide useful information that will help improve
the relationship between societal needs and science
and technology policies.
Milestone 1. Organize a fall noontime seminar series focused
on decision making under uncertainty, in conjunction
with other units of CIRES.
Fall 2010:
“Climate change impacts on infrastructure: A global look
at predicted changes and effects,” Paul S. Chinowsky,
CU Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural
Engineering
“Integrating science and policy: Climate change assessments
and water resources management,” Christine Kirchhoff,
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
(CSTPR)
“Arctic sea changes: Prospects for increased marine traf-