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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Massimo A Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom and Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Conveners:  Massimo A Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Laura Wilcox, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom and Debbie Polson, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Debbie Polson, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Assessment of Global Warming and Aerosol Impacts on the Asian Monsoon
William K-M Lau1,2 and Kyu Myong Kim1,2, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
8:15 AM
 
Forced vs unforced drivers of Atlantic SST variability - linking forced role to magnitude of aerosol forcing
Ben Booth1, Nick Dunstone1, Paul Richard Halloran1,2, 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)SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
8:30 AM
 
Influence of anthropogenic aerosols and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on tropical belt width
Robert Allen1, Joel R Norris2 and Mahesh Kovilakam3, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)University of California Riverside, Chino, CA, United States
9:00 AM
 
The Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosols on the Properties of the Indian Ocean Dipole
Tim Cowan1,2, Wenju Cai2, Benjamin Ng2 and Matthew H England1, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (2)CSIRO, Aspendale, Australia
9:15 AM
 
Radiative Forcing and Perturbations To Climate By Anthropogenic Sources of Soil Dust Aerosols
Ron L Miller1, Carlos Pérez García-Pando1,2, Jan P Perlwitz2 and Paul A Ginoux3, (1)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, (2)Columbia Univ c/o NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, (3)NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
9:30 AM
 
Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Evolution of U.S. Droughts
Eric M Leibensperger and Evan James Cazavilan, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, United States
9:45 AM
 
Transient Climate Impacts for Scenarios of Aerosol Emissions from Asia: A Story of Coal versus Gas
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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