A23N:
Air Quality in Asia IV

Session ID#: 5294

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Tong Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China and Shuvashish Kundu, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Primary Convener:  Steven S Brown, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Tao Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Tong Zhu, Peking University, BIC-ESAT and SKL-ESPC College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Beijing, China
OSPA Liaison:  Steven S Brown, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Global Warming and Air Quality in China (Invited) (7012)
Shaw Chen Liu, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Run Liu, Jun Li and Yuanhang Zhang, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing
Mapping Air Pollution Concentrations and Sources in China from Ground-Level Observations (26796)
Robert A Rohde, Berkeley Earth, Zurich, Switzerland and Richard A. Muller, Berkeley Earth, Berkeley, CA, United States
Roles of Uncontrollable VOC Emissions in the Regional Air Quality of the Seoul Metropolitan Area (11877)
Daun Jeong1, Saewung Kim2, Meehye Lee3, Heeyeon Shim4, Hak-young Kim4, Minnie Minnie Park5, Hyunju Park6, Soyoung Kim6, Glenn M Wolfe7,8, Alex B Guenther9, Amy He1, Youdeog Hong6 and Jinseok Han10, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (3)Korea University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Korea Univ, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (5)NIER National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, United States, (6)NIER National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)UMBC/NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (10)NIER, Korea, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Recent Improvement in Air Quality as Evidenced by the Island-wide Monitoring Network in Taiwan (15022)
Sheng-po Chen1, Chih-Chung Chang1, Jyh-Jian Liu2, Charles Chou3, Julius S Chang4 and Jia-lin Wang5, (1)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan, Department of Environmental Monitoring and Information Management, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Academia Sinica, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Taipei, Taiwan, (4)National Central University, Jhong Li, Taiwan, (5)National Central Univ., Chungli, Taiwan
Observation of black carbon, ozone and carbon monoxide in the Kali Gandaki Valley Nepal (29772)
Shradda Dhungel, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Arnico K Panday, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal and Bhogendra Kathayat, Nepal Wireless, Kathmandu, Nepal
Impact of synoptic patterns on East Asia pollutant transport pathways observed from satellites (26233)
Hyun C Kim1,2, Pius Lee3, Soontae Kim4, Fong Ngan2,3, Changhan Bae5, Byeong-Uk Kim6 and Eunhye Kim5, (1)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Ajou University, Environmental and Safety Engineering, Suwon, South Korea, (5)Ajou University, Environmental and Safety Engineering, Suwon, Korea, Republic of (South), (6)Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, GA, United States
Agriculture Crop Burning in Northwestern India and Its Impact on Atmospheric Pollution and Air Quality (17707)
Ramesh P Singh, Sharda University, Tustin, India; Chapman University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Orange, United States, Akshansha Chauhan, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan and Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States
Air Quality in Mecca and Surrounding Holy Places in Saudi Arabia during Hajj: Initial Survey (4270)
Isobel J Simpson1, Omar Siraj Aburizaiza2, Azhar Siddique2,3, Barbara Barletta1, Nicola J Blake4, Aaron Gartner4, Haider Abbas Khwaja5,6, Simone Meinardi1, Jahan Zeb2 and Donald Ray Blake1, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, United States, (2)King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (3)University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, United States, (6)University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States