342 APRIL 2021 | A tmospheric pollution can have significant impacts on human and ecosystem health, visibility, and climate. Control strategies require knowledge of the chemical and physical transformations that pollutants undergo as they are transported downwind of emission sources. Cloud water plays an important role in the transfor- mation of atmospheric pollutants, including their removal from the atmosphere via wet deposition and the scavenging of gases and aerosols by cloud droplets, within which aqueous chemical reactions can occur. Whiteface Mountain (WFM), one of the high- est peaks in the Adirondack Mountains in the northern part of New York State, has a long his- tory of reactive trace gas and cloud water chem- ical measurements. The isolated peak of WFM sits at an altitude of 1,483 m, while summertime cloud-base height in this region typically sits at 1,100 m, resulting in clouds intercepting the Adapted from “Overview of the CPOC Pilot Study at Whiteface Mountain, NY: Cloud Processing of Organics within Clouds,” by Sara Lance (University at Albany, State University of New York), Jie Zhang, James J. Schwab, Paul Casson, Richard E. Brandt , David R. Fitzjarrald, Margaret J. Schwab, John Sicker, Cheng-Hsuan Lu, Sheng-Po Chen, Jeongran Yun, Jeffrey M. Freedman, Bhupal Shrestha, Qilong Min, Mark Beauharnois, Brian Crandall, Everette Joseph, Matthew J. Brewer, Justin R. Minder, Daniel Orlowski, Amy Christiansen, Annmarie G. Carlton, and Mary C. Barth. Published online in BAMS, October 2020. For the full, citable article, see DOI:10.1175 /BAMS-D-19-0022.1. Sky-High Study Pilot Project Tests Mountain for Cloud Processing of Organic Compounds Unauthenticated | Downloaded 04/23/23 09:06 AM UTC