Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Interactions with Clouds, Radiation, and Climate on Regional Scale

Session ID#: 118566

Session Description:
Atmospheric aerosols, which are formed, transformed, and removed through complex physicochemical processes, have profound impacts on human health. Besides, they affect meteorology and climate by interacting with clouds, radiation, and precipitation. Changes in meteorology and climate, in turn, influence the budget and lifecycle of aerosols.

We welcome all theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that present new knowledge of aerosols and aerosol-climate interactions on the regional scale. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: (1) Sources, formation, evolution, and removal of aerosols, including inorganic and organic aerosols. (2) Aerosol physical and chemical processes that affect radiation and clouds, including new-particle formation and growth, cloud condensation and ice nucleation activities, multiphase chemistry, etc. (3) Interactions among aerosols, radiation, liquid-, mixed-, and ice-phase clouds, and precipitation. (4) Impact of these interactions on weather, climate change, and air pollution. (5) influence of meteorology and climate change on aerosols and air quality.

Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]


Primary Convener:  Bin Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Yu Gu, University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Hong Liao, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China and Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Bin Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
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