Session Details | |
Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
Session Title | Asian Haze: Interdisciplinary Science from Regional to Global Scales |
Main Convener | Dr. Jason Cohen (National University of Singapore, Singapore) |
Co-convener(s) | Dr. Yi Ming (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States) Dr. Tzung-May Fu (Peking University, China) Dr. Hsiang-He Lee (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center, Singapore) |
Session Description | Particulate pollutants and associated gases from fossil and biomass burning cause persistent atmospheric haze worldwide. In particular throughout Asia, severe haze events have become both more intense and frequent in recent years, degrading the environment and ecosystem at large, threatening the health of human and ecosystems, and causing societal issues. Particulate matter, due to its interactions with radiation and clouds, plays an important role in the chemistry, physics, and dynamics of the atmosphere and can have a significant impact on the regional and global climate including the land and hydrologic systems, as well as certain weather patterns including extreme weather events. As economic development, urban expansion, and land-use conversion will continue to occur, and possibly even speed-up, the major sources of particles and associated gasses. Therein the problem of severe haze will likely continue to grow. This interdisciplinary session solicits papers assessing sources, transformations, and transport of haze, and its impacts on global and regional climate, environment including air and water quality, and certain weather patterns including extreme weather events. This is a session focused broadly on the science of haze: including radiation, chemistry, physics, dynamics, climate, biogeochemical, data assimilation, and other such scientific approaches to quantifying impacts or risk analysis. We hope that this session will serve as a forum for a diverse range of discussions of haze-related research, with a specific focus on the Asian region and/or impacts from the Asian region on the global scale. |