| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Spatial and Temporal Variability of Aerosol in an Around Indian Subcontinent and the Associated Radiative Forcing - a Study from In-situ and Satellite Derived Data |
| Main Convener | Prof. Harilal Menon (Goa University, India) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Binita Pathak (Dibrugarh University, India) Dr. Mukunda M. Gogoi (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, India) Dr. Yogesh Kant (Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, India) |
| Session Description | Composite aerosol is one of the important components of study of climate variability. Realising it's importance on monsoon, major field campaigns were carried out by Indian Space Research Organisation under the aegis of Indian Geopshere Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The programme encompassed concurrent observations integrating land, Ocean and atmosphere, the Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB). The results of the study have already been documented. This session has been proposed to discuss the results of the decade old observations on the temporal variability of aerosols over the Indian subcontinent and their spatial variability from ship and satellite based observations. It also includes the results of the modelling of aerosol advection over the ocean, precisely over north of 10 0 N and over the pristine Indian ocean sector of southern Ocean (40 0S - 60 0 S). Those studies from the Southern Ocean should encompass the effect of land derived aerosol advected over the ocean and their masking effect on the ocean derived aerosols. |