ACAM 2013 Workshop Agenda

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Workshop on Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Summer Monsoon (ACAM)
9-12 June 2013 in Kathmandu, Nepal

Sunday Evening, 9 June

WELCOME AND INAUGURATION SESSION - Arnico Panday
17:30 - 18:45
David Molden
Director General, ICIMOD

Welcome from Local Sponsor

Laura Pan
Workshop Co-Chair

Welcome from Organizing Committee

Arnico Panday
ICIMOD

Introduction to ICIMOD and its sponsorship

Mary Barth
iLEAPS

Introduction to iLEAPS and its sponsorship

Hiroshi Tanimoto
IGAC

Introduction to IGAC and its sponsorship

Bill Randel
SPARC

Introduction to SPARC and its sponsorship

Rabindra Kumar Shakya
Vice Chairman of the National Planning Commission

18:45

Reception and Dinner

Monday, 10 June

Introduction - Laura Pan

Time
Duration
Name
Country
Title/Topic
08:30
10 min
Arnico Panday
USA/Nepal
Welcome and Logistics
08:40
20 min
Laura Pan/Jim Crawford
USA

Workshop introduction

09:00
30 min
Madhavan Nair Rajeevan
India

Asian monsoon dynamics, variability, and predictability

09:30
30 min
Bill Randel
USA

Chemistry impact of the Asian monsoon anticyclone

10:00
30 min
Mark Lawrence
Germany

Southern Asian pollution outflow: A historical perspective

10:30
Break

Topic 1 - Emissions and Air Quality - Hiroshi Tanimoto and Mark Lawrence
11:00
20 min
Greg Carmichael
USA

Regional and local interactions between air quality and climate in Monsoon Asia

11:20
20 min
Jun-ichi Kurokawa
Japan

Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases over Southeast and South Asian regions during 2000-2008

11:40
20 min
Vinayak Sinha
India/Germany

New insights on emission and chemistry of VOCs from high time resolution in-situ measurements in the Himalayan foothills

12:00                             Lunch
13:30
20 min
Xuemei Wang
China

Air pollution in China driven by urbanization and energy use

13:50
15 min
Maheswar Rupakheti
Germany/Nepal
Spatial and temporal variations of air pollutants in the Kathmandu Valley: Preliminary findings of Suskat-ABC Field Campaign
14:05
15 min
Bhupesh Adhikary
Nepal
Aerosols over Nepal Himalayas: A regional chemical transport modeling analysis
14:20
15 min
Elisa Vuillermoz
Italy
First black carbon and ozone observations at Pakanajol, Kathmandu, during the SusKAT intensive field campaign
14:35
15 min
Patrick Ginot
France
Black carbon and dust impact on Himalayan glacier: case study on Mera Glacier (Nepal)
14:50
15 min
Shichang Kang
China
Effects of black carbon and dust on the albedo in Zhadang Glacier, Southern Tibetan Plateau

15:05
15 min
Jason Cohen
Singapore
Combining models and measurements to better understand the sources and impacts of both fires and urban sources
15:20
15 min
Chinmay Jena
India
Impact of fire emissions in south Asia on air quality in the region
15:35
15 min
Eri Saikawa
USA/Japan
Chinas vehicle emissions new emissions inventories and their impacts on regional air quality
15:50
15 min
Hongyu Liu
USA
Origin of springtime ozone enhancements in the lower troposphere over Beijing: In situ measurements and model analysis
16:05                            Posters
18:00                            Adjourn

Tuesday, 11 June
Topic 2 - Aerosols and Clouds - K. Krishnamoorthy and Arnico Panday
08:30
30 min
Suresh Babu
India

Trends in aerosol optical depth over Indian region: Potential causes and Impacts

08:50
15 min
Susanne Bauer
USA
Historic and future black carbon deposition in the Himalayas
09:05
15 min
Chiara Cagnazzo
Italy
Impact of Aerosols on the Indian Summer Monsoon in Coupled Aerosol-Climate Model Simulations
09:20
15 min
Paolo Cristofanelli
Italy
Aerosol and trace gas observations from the NCO-P station, a multi-year analysis.
09:35
15 min
Sudip Chakraborty
USA
Aerosol transport by deep convection and influence on mesoscale convective systems over the Indian Monsoon Region
09:50
15 min
Ritesh Gautam
USA/India
Satellite observations of desert dust-induced Himalayan snow darkening
10:05
15 min
Zhenming Ji
China
Simulation of the anthropogenic aerosols over South Asia and their effects on Indian Summer Monsoon
10:20 -
Break and group photo
11:00
15 min
Sachin Gunthe
India
Role of atmospheric aerosols in climate and human health: Indian perspective
11:15
15 min
Sachchidanand Singh
India
Long-term variability, climatology and periodicities in aerosol physical properties at a polluted city in IGP

11:30
15 min
Binita Pathak
India
Spatial heterogeneity in near surface aerosol characteristics across Brahmaputra valley: Results from a land campaign
11:45                              Lunch
Topic 3 - Convection and Chemistry - Brice Barret and Hans Schlager
13:20
20 min
Mary Barth
USA

Overview of recent advances in understanding the chemical and physical processes associated with thunderstorms

13:40
20 min
Hartwig Harder
Germany

Oxidation Capacity Influenced by Convection

14:00
15 min
Arnico Panday
Nepal/USA
Pollution transport to the Tibetan Plateau by up-valley winds
14:15
15 min
Brice Barret
France
Convective transport of pollution in the UTLS during the Asian monsoon: satellite observations and mesoscale modelling
14:30
15 min
Cathy Clerbaux
France
What can be seen by the IASI instruments onboard the MetOp satellites in the Asian Monsoon Region?
14:45
15 min
Sachiko Hayashida
Japan
Methane concentrations observed from space over monsoon Asia: Signals of methane emissions from rice cultivation and biomass burning
15:00
15 min
Ralf Koppmann
Germany
Measurements of stable carbon isotope ratios in atmospheric VOC on HALO
15:15
15 min
P.S.P. Rao
India
Deposition fluxes of major anions and cations in monsoon rain at four locations in Pune City, India
15:30
15 min
Lekhendra Tripathee
China/Nepal
Wet precipitation chemistry over the southern slope of central Himalayas, Nepal
15:45
15 min
Jasna Pittman
USA
Impact of the South East Asian Monsoon on the free and upper troposphere over the Central Pacific
16:00                              Posters
18:00                             Adjourn

Wednesday, 12 June
Topic 4 - UT/LS - Paul Konopka and Jianchun Bian
08:30
20 min

Rong Fu
USA
Influence of climate variations and aerosols on convective transport to the UT/LS over Asian Monsoon/Tibetan region

08:50
20 min
Bernard Legras
France

Transport in the TTL

09:10
15 min
Jianchun Bian
China
Sounding water vapor, ozone and particle (SWOP) campaign at Lhasa and Kunming during the ASM
09:25
15 min
Chiara Cagnazzo
Italy
Lower stratospheric water vapour variability and decadal variations of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone in climate models
09:40
15 min
Matt Hitchman
USA
Transport Into the stratosphere via the Summer Asian High
09:55
15 min
Ryan Neely
USA
The Impact of Asian emissions on the Asian tropical aerosol layer and implications for the stratosphere
10:10
15 min
Hans Schlager
Germany
Airborne observations of cyclone induced uplift and long-range transport of East Asian pollution in the UTLS

10:25
Break

11:00
15 min
Archana Shrestha
USA/Nepal
Cloudburst dynamics in the Nepal Himalayas: Tropical-extratropical interaction at tropopause level
11:15
15 min
Marc von Hobe
Germany
Upward transport of sulfur and aerosol through the Asian Monsoon and beyond: Using the Nabro 2011 volcanic plume as a tracer
11:30
15 min
Federico Fierli
Italy
Atmospheric transport and composition in the Asian Monsoon Region
11:45
15 min
Laura Pan
USA
Dynamical and chemical structure of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone in the UTLS
12:00                              Lunch
Discussion and Future Activities Laura Pan
13:30
10 min
Markus Rex
Germany
StratoClim
13:40
10 min
Iq Mead
Malaysia
Chemical sounding from Malaysia
13:50
10 min
Bob Yokelson
USA
Ground-based sampling in Nepal and Bhutan
14:00
10 min
Bill Randel
USA

SPARC project

14:10
10 min
Hiroshi Tanimoto
Japan
IGAC Working Group
14:20
10 min
Mary Barth
USA
iLEAPS interests
14:30
10 min
Greg Carmichael
USA
Report on C4 conference

14:40
Break

15:00
20 min
Discussion - Emissions and Air Quality
Session chairs lead discussion and summarize outstanding issues, knowledge gaps, and potential collaborations
15:20
20 min
Discussion - Aerosols and Clouds
15:40
20 min
Discussion - Convection and Chemistry
16:00
20 min
Discussion - UT/LS
16:20
20 min
Final Discussion and Adjourn
Laura Pan to cover final action items and plans for a workshop summary/report

Sunday Evening, 9 June
WELCOME AND INAUGURATION SESSION - Arnico Panday
17:30 - 18:45		David Molden		Director General, ICIMOD			Welcome from Local Sponsor
		Laura Pan		Workshop Co-Chair			Welcome from Organizing Committee
		Arnico Panday		ICIMOD			Introduction to ICIMOD and its sponsorship
		Mary Barth		iLEAPS			Introduction to iLEAPS and its sponsorship
		Hiroshi Tanimoto		IGAC			Introduction to IGAC and its sponsorship
		Bill Randel		SPARC			Introduction to SPARC and its sponsorship
		Rabindra Kumar Shakya		Vice Chairman of the National Planning Commission
18:45		Reception and Dinner

Monday, 10 June
Introduction - Laura Pan
Time	Duration		Name		Country	Title/Topic
08:30	10 min		Arnico Panday		USA/Nepal	Welcome and Logistics
08:40	20 min		Laura Pan/Jim Crawford		USA	Workshop introduction
09:00	30 min		Madhavan Nair Rajeevan		India	Asian monsoon dynamics, variability, and predictability
09:30	30 min		Bill Randel		USA	Chemistry impact of the Asian monsoon anticyclone
10:00	30 min		Mark Lawrence		Germany	Southern Asian pollution outflow: A historical perspective
10:30	Break
Topic 1 - Emissions and Air Quality - Hiroshi Tanimoto and Mark Lawrence
11:00	20 min		Greg Carmichael		USA	Regional and local interactions between air quality and climate in Monsoon Asia
11:20	20 min		Jun-ichi Kurokawa		Japan	Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases over Southeast and South Asian regions during 2000-2008
11:40	20 min		Vinayak Sinha		India/Germany	New insights on emission and chemistry of VOCs from high time resolution in-situ measurements in the Himalayan foothills
12:00 Lunch
13:30	20 min		Xuemei Wang		China	Air pollution in China driven by urbanization and energy use
13:50	15 min		Maheswar Rupakheti		Germany/Nepal	Spatial and temporal variations of air pollutants in the Kathmandu Valley: Preliminary findings of Suskat-ABC Field Campaign
14:05	15 min		Bhupesh Adhikary		Nepal	Aerosols over Nepal Himalayas: A regional chemical transport modeling analysis
14:20	15 min		Elisa Vuillermoz		Italy	First black carbon and ozone observations at Pakanajol, Kathmandu, during the SusKAT intensive field campaign
14:35	15 min		Patrick Ginot		France	Black carbon and dust impact on Himalayan glacier: case study on Mera Glacier (Nepal)
14:50	15 min		Shichang Kang		China	Effects of black carbon and dust on the albedo in Zhadang Glacier, Southern Tibetan Plateau
15:05	15 min		Jason Cohen		Singapore	Combining models and measurements to better understand the sources and impacts of both fires and urban sources
15:20	15 min		Chinmay Jena		India	Impact of fire emissions in south Asia on air quality in the region
15:35	15 min		Eri Saikawa		USA/Japan	Chinas vehicle emissions new emissions inventories and their impacts on regional air quality
15:50	15 min		Hongyu Liu		USA	Origin of springtime ozone enhancements in the lower troposphere over Beijing: In situ measurements and model analysis
16:05 Posters
18:00 Adjourn

Tuesday, 11 June
Topic 2 - Aerosols and Clouds - K. Krishnamoorthy and Arnico Panday
08:30	30 min		Suresh Babu		India	Trends in aerosol optical depth over Indian region: Potential causes and Impacts
08:50	15 min		Susanne Bauer		USA	Historic and future black carbon deposition in the Himalayas
09:05	15 min		Chiara Cagnazzo		Italy	Impact of Aerosols on the Indian Summer Monsoon in Coupled Aerosol-Climate Model Simulations
09:20	15 min		Paolo Cristofanelli		Italy	Aerosol and trace gas observations from the NCO-P station, a multi-year analysis.
09:35	15 min		Sudip Chakraborty		USA	Aerosol transport by deep convection and influence on mesoscale convective systems over the Indian Monsoon Region
09:50	15 min		Ritesh Gautam		USA/India	Satellite observations of desert dust-induced Himalayan snow darkening
10:05	15 min		Zhenming Ji		China	Simulation of the anthropogenic aerosols over South Asia and their effects on Indian Summer Monsoon
10:20 -	Break and group photo
11:00	15 min		Sachin Gunthe		India	Role of atmospheric aerosols in climate and human health: Indian perspective
11:15	15 min		Sachchidanand Singh		India	Long-term variability, climatology and periodicities in aerosol physical properties at a polluted city in IGP
11:30	15 min		Binita Pathak		India	Spatial heterogeneity in near surface aerosol characteristics across Brahmaputra valley: Results from a land campaign
11:45 Lunch
Topic 3 - Convection and Chemistry - Brice Barret and Hans Schlager
13:20	20 min		Mary Barth		USA	Overview of recent advances in understanding the chemical and physical processes associated with thunderstorms
13:40	20 min		Hartwig Harder		Germany	Oxidation Capacity Influenced by Convection
14:00	15 min		Arnico Panday		Nepal/USA	Pollution transport to the Tibetan Plateau by up-valley winds
14:15	15 min		Brice Barret		France	Convective transport of pollution in the UTLS during the Asian monsoon: satellite observations and mesoscale modelling
14:30	15 min		Cathy Clerbaux		France	What can be seen by the IASI instruments onboard the MetOp satellites in the Asian Monsoon Region?
14:45	15 min		Sachiko Hayashida		Japan	Methane concentrations observed from space over monsoon Asia: Signals of methane emissions from rice cultivation and biomass burning
15:00	15 min		Ralf Koppmann		Germany	Measurements of stable carbon isotope ratios in atmospheric VOC on HALO
15:15	15 min		P.S.P. Rao		India	Deposition fluxes of major anions and cations in monsoon rain at four locations in Pune City, India
15:30	15 min		Lekhendra Tripathee		China/Nepal	Wet precipitation chemistry over the southern slope of central Himalayas, Nepal
15:45	15 min		Jasna Pittman		USA	Impact of the South East Asian Monsoon on the free and upper troposphere over the Central Pacific
16:00 Posters
18:00 Adjourn

Wednesday, 12 June
Topic 4 - UT/LS - Paul Konopka and Jianchun Bian
08:30	20 min		Rong Fu		USA	Influence of climate variations and aerosols on convective transport to the UT/LS over Asian Monsoon/Tibetan region
08:50	20 min		Bernard Legras		France	Transport in the TTL
09:10	15 min		Jianchun Bian		China	Sounding water vapor, ozone and particle (SWOP) campaign at Lhasa and Kunming during the ASM
09:25	15 min		Chiara Cagnazzo		Italy	Lower stratospheric water vapour variability and decadal variations of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone in climate models
09:40	15 min		Matt Hitchman		USA	Transport Into the stratosphere via the Summer Asian High
09:55	15 min		Ryan Neely		USA	The Impact of Asian emissions on the Asian tropical aerosol layer and implications for the stratosphere
10:10	15 min		Hans Schlager		Germany	Airborne observations of cyclone induced uplift and long-range transport of East Asian pollution in the UTLS
10:25	Break
11:00	15 min		Archana Shrestha		USA/Nepal	Cloudburst dynamics in the Nepal Himalayas: Tropical-extratropical interaction at tropopause level
11:15	15 min		Marc von Hobe		Germany	Upward transport of sulfur and aerosol through the Asian Monsoon and beyond: Using the Nabro 2011 volcanic plume as a tracer
11:30	15 min		Federico Fierli		Italy	Atmospheric transport and composition in the Asian Monsoon Region
11:45	15 min		Laura Pan		USA	Dynamical and chemical structure of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone in the UTLS
12:00 Lunch
Discussion and Future Activities Laura Pan
13:30	10 min		Markus Rex		Germany	StratoClim
13:40	10 min		Iq Mead		Malaysia	Chemical sounding from Malaysia
13:50	10 min		Bob Yokelson		USA	Ground-based sampling in Nepal and Bhutan
14:00	10 min		Bill Randel		USA	SPARC project
14:10	10 min		Hiroshi Tanimoto		Japan	IGAC Working Group
14:20	10 min		Mary Barth		USA	iLEAPS interests
14:30	10 min		Greg Carmichael		USA	Report on C4 conference
14:40	Break
15:00	20 min		Discussion - Emissions and Air Quality			Session chairs lead discussion and summarize outstanding issues, knowledge gaps, and potential collaborations
15:20	20 min		Discussion - Aerosols and Clouds
15:40	20 min		Discussion - Convection and Chemistry
16:00	20 min		Discussion - UT/LS
16:20	20 min		Final Discussion and Adjourn			Laura Pan to cover final action items and plans for a workshop summary/report