OA3
Asian Dust (Yellow Sand) : Observations and Modeling

Main Organiser
Soon-Ung Park
Seoul National University, Korea
supark@snupbl.snu.ac.kr

Co-Organiser(s)
Mikami Masao
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
mmikami@mri-jma.go.jp

Hong-Sheng Zhang
Peking University, China
turb@pku.edu.cn

Guang-Yu Shi
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China
shigy@mail.iap.ac.cn

Nels Laulainen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
nels.laulainen@pnl.gov

Brief Description
One of distinctive phenomena occurring in Spring in Asia is Asian Dust that originates in inland China in association with the desertification. Recently the occurrence frequencies and intensities are increasing thereby creating severe environmental problem.
This section will include modelings and observations of physical and chemical processes in association with Asian dust, such as :
1) Emission process
2) Long-range transport process
3) Chemical transformation process
4) Impact assessment
5) Others including physical and chemical processes in association with Asian Air Pollution

If any of you who would be interested in oral talk or poster presentation in OA3 session, please contact organizers (deadline for ABSTRACT is April 15, 2004) and be pioneer in the 1st AOGS Annual Meeting and Exhibition.