A51M:
Mechanisms of Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing on Regional Climate Variability and Change I

Session ID#: 1824

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Massimo A Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Yi Ming, Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Chestnut Hill, United States
Primary Convener:  Massimo A Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Yi Ming, Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Chestnut Hill, United States, Laura Wilcox, University of Reading, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom and Debbie Polson, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Debbie Polson, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A51M-01
Assessment of Global Warming and Aerosol Impacts on the Asian Monsoon (Invited) (8721)
William K-M Lau1,2 and Kyu Myong Kim2,3, (1)U. of Maryland, College Park, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A51M-02
Forced vs unforced drivers of Atlantic SST variability - linking forced role to magnitude of aerosol forcing (Invited) (16534)
Ben Booth1, Nick J Dunstone1, Paul Richard Halloran2, Timothy Andrews1, Nicolas Bellouin3 and Elinor R Martin4, (1)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States
A51M-03
Influence of anthropogenic aerosols and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on tropical belt width (Invited) (20211)
Robert Allen1, Joel R Norris2 and Mahesh Kovilakam1,3, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)ADNET Systems Inc /NASA LaRC, Hampton, United States
A51M-04
Current Understandings of the Impacts of Anthropogenic Aerosols on the South Asia Monsoons (Invited) (3770)
Chien Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
A51M-05
The Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosols on the Properties of the Indian Ocean Dipole (27338)
Tim Cowan1,2, Wenju Cai3, Benjamin Ng2 and Matthew H England1, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)CSIRO, Aspendale, Australia, (3)Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China
A51M-06
Radiative Forcing and Perturbations To Climate By Anthropogenic Sources of Soil Dust Aerosols (26014)
Ron L Miller, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain; Columbia Univ c/o NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, Jan P Perlwitz, Columbia Univ c/o NASA/GISS, New York, United States and Paul A Ginoux, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
A51M-07
Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Evolution of U.S. Droughts (17757)
Eric M Leibensperger, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States and Evan James Cazavilan, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, United States
A51M-08
Transient Climate Impacts for Scenarios of Aerosol Emissions from Asia: A Story of Coal versus Gas (14419)
Benjamin S Grandey1, Haiwen Cheng1 and Chien Wang2, (1)Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
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