Chairs:  Yuan Wang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China 
Primary Conveners:  Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL, United States 
Co-conveners:  Gregory R Carmichael, Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Jintai Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China 
OSPA Liaisons:  Jintai Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China 
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				New Particle Formation Events During 2013 in Hada Al Sham, Saudi-Arabia
			
			
			
				
					Kimmo Neitola1, Antti Hyvärinen1, Heikki Lihavainen1, Mansour Alghamdi2, Tareq Hussein3, M. Khodeir2, A. Shehata2, Ari J Laaksonen1 and Markku Tapio Kulmala3, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (3)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Observations of Upward Propagating Gravity Waves in the Vertical Transport of Aerosols during Daytime Boundary Layer Evolution over Central Himalayan Region
			
			
			
				
					Krishna KUMAR Shukla1, D V Phani Kumar1, Niranjan Kumar Kondapalli2, Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi3 and Rob K Newsom4, (1)Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational-Sciences, Nainital, India, (2)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Evaluation on Asian Dust Aerosol and Simulated Processes in CanAM4.2 Using Satellite Measurements and Station Data
			
			
			
				
					Peng Yiran1, Jiangnan Li2, Knut von Salzen2, Tie Dai3 and Dong Liu4, (1)Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)CCCma, Environment Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Composition and Optical Radiation, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Hefei, Anhui, China
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Wet Deposition of Black Carbon at a Remote Site in the East China Sea
			
			
			
				
					Tatsuhiro Mori1, Yutaka Kondo2, Nobuhiro Moteki2, Sho Ohata2, Hitoshi Matsui3, Naga Oshima4 and Aya Iwasaki5, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Global Change, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (5)Okinawa Prefectural  Institute of Health and Environment, Okinawa, Japan
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Dust Event of April 23-24, 2014 in the Northwest China and Changes in Air Quality, Atmospheric and Meteorological Parameters
			
			
			
				
					Sheng Zheng1,2, Chunxiang Cao1 and Ramesh P Singh3, (1)State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Aerosol hygroscopicity and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity under clean conditions and polluted events during the Aerosol-CCN-Cloud Closure Experiment (AC3Exp) campaign
			
			
			
				
					Fang Zhang1, Zhanqing Li2, Li Sun3, Chuanfeng Zhao1, Pucai Wang4, Yele Sun5, Yanan Li1, Junxia Li6 and Peiren Li6, (1)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Univ of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, (4)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)IAP, CAS, Beijing, China, (6)Weather Modification Office of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, China
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Sensitivity of Aerosol Radiative Forcing to Mixing State and Non-Sphericity
			
			
			
				
					Parul Srivastava1, Sagnik Dey1, Atul Srivastava2, Sachchidanand Singh3 and Poornima Agarwal1, (1)Indian Institute of Technology  Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India, (2)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Delhi Branch, India, (3)National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Carbonaceous aerosols observed at Ieodo Ocean Research Station and implication for the role of secondary aerosols in fog formation
			
			
			
				
					Jihyun Han1, Beomcheol Shin2, Gilyong Hwang1, Jahan Kim1, Meehye Lee1 and Jaeseol Shim3, (1)Korea Univ, Seoul, South Korea, (2)National Institute of Meteorological Research, Asian Dust Research Laboratory, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Korea Institute of Oceanic Science and Technology, Division of Coastal and Harbour Engineering Research, Ansan, South Korea
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Analysis of Aerosols Climatology over Saudi Provinces Based on Satellites and Ground Stations Data
			
			
			
				
					Ashraf Farahat, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Prep Year - Physics, Dhanran, Saudi Arabia; Alexandria University, Physics, Faculty of Science, Alexandria, Egypt, Hesham Mohamed El-Askary, Chapman Univ, Orange, CA, United States; Alexandria University, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria, Egypt and Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhanran, Saudi Arabia
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Contribution of HUmic-LIke Substances Carbon (HULIS-C) in WSOC and their characteristics in aerosol 
			
			
			
				
					JiYi Lee1, SePyo Lee1, Jin Young Kim2, Yong Pyo Kim3 and Chang Hoon Jung4, (1)Chosun University, Environmental Engineering, Gwangju, South Korea, (2)KIST Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Green City Technology Institute, Gangneung, South Korea, (3)Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, (4)Kyungin Womens College, Incheon, South Korea