| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Impacts of Haze and Dust in East Asia: Mechanism, Observations, and Model Assessments |
| Main Convener | Dr. Yuan Wang (California Institute of Technology, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Jianping Guo (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China) Prof. Chuanfeng Zhao (Beijing Normal University, China) Prof. Yong-Sang Choi (Ewha Womans University, Korea, South) Prof. Daizhou Zhang (Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan) |
| Session Description | East Asia is experiencing an unprecedented rate of changes to the environment and climate, including the frequently reported episodes of severe haze pollution. Meanwhile, dust storms are prevalent in many East Asian regions, and dust particles originating from East Asia can travel across the Pacific to North America and beyond. Anthropogenic haze and natural dust aerosols, due to their interactions with radiation and clouds, potentially exert significant impacts on the regional and global climate. Such impacts can specifically extend to the land and hydrologic systems, as well as certain climate or weather features such as the monsoons and extreme weather events. Making scientific progress on these issues in this region is critical for sound policy making and the well-being of about half of the world’s population. This session aims to capture the current understanding of the aerosol-cloud-precipitation-climate interactions in East Asia. This session invites papers on any of the following or related subjects: (1) theoretical studies on the aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions; (2) observational experiments and datasets of aerosols and aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions over East Asia; (3) spatial and temporal variations of aerosol, cloud and precipitation in the region; (4) source characterization of aerosol emissions and sinks; (5) impacts of Asian aerosols on extreme weathers and large-scale circulation systems. We hope that this session will serve as a forum for a diverse range of discussions of haze-dust related researches. |