A41G:
Aerosols and Air Quality over South Asia and the Hindu Kush–Himalaya II Posters
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Session ID#: 43841
Session Description:
The densely populated Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), south of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH), is subjected to persistently high loadings of aerosols and key air pollutants, which lead to poor air quality and impact the regional atmospheric chemistry, climate, public health and agriculture. Dense smog associated with crop burning, urban/industrial emissions and residential heating/cooking, during the dry autumn-winter period, often results in alarming degradation of air quality. Whereas extensive dust emissions in spring-summer months, combined with carbonaceous aerosols, can potentially affect summer monsoon processes, leading to enhanced vertical pollution transport over Asia. Emissions originating from the IGP can also be transported across other parts of south Asia including surrounding oceanic regions, and even the relatively pristine HKH. We invite presentations discussing various observational, modeling and impact studies over south Asia; with topics ranging from aerosols and trace gases characterization including aerosol-radiation and chemistry-climate interactions, and public health and agricultural impacts.
Co-Sponsor iLEAPS
Primary Convener: Ritesh Gautam, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: Arnico K Panday, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, Rajesh Kumar, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Sachin D Ghude, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
Primary Liaison: Ritesh Gautam, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs: Ritesh Gautam, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States, Arnico K Panday, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, Rajesh Kumar, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Sachin D Ghude, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
OSPA Liaison: Ritesh Gautam, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Apoorva Pandey1, Shamsh Pervez2 and Rajan K. Chakrabarty1, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India
Anjum Rasheed, Centre for Climate Research & Development (CCRD), COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Viney P Aneja, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States, Uzaira Iqbal, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan and Burhan Ahmad, Pakistan Meteorological Department, Islamabad, Pakistan
Pratima Gupta1, Ashok Jangid1 and Rohini Singh Singh2, (1)Dayalbagh Education Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra, UTTAR Pradesh, India, (2)Dayalbagh Education Institute, UTTAR Pradesh, India
Shani Tiwari, Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Department of Phyiscs, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Dimitris Kaskaoutis, Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens,, Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Crete, Greece, Vijay Soni, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi-110003, India, S. D. Attri, Indian Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India and Abhay Kumar Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Maria Cecilia Dandan Galvez1, Jacob Alberto Suarez Garcia, Edgar Amemita Vallar1 and Gerry Bagtasa3, (1)De La Salle University, Physics, Manila, Philippines, (2)University of the Philippines Diliman, Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology, Quezon City, Philippines
Manish Kumar, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and Alaa Mhawish, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Dinesh Lotan Patil1, Manoj Kumar Singh1 and Ritesh Gautam2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (2)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States
Abdus Salam, University of Dhaka, Department of Chemistry, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shradda Dhungel, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, Kostas Tsigaridis, Columbia University, New York, United States and Susanne Bauer, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
Erin Katz, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Benjamin Werden, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States, Michael R Giordano, Drexel University, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Puppala S Praveen, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, Khadak Mahata, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany, Robert J Yokelson, University of Montana, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, United States, Elizabeth A. Stone, University of Iowa, Chemistry, Iowa City, United States, Arnico K Panday, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal and Peter F DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Pradeep Kumar, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Arti Choudhary, Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geophysics, Varanasi, India, Abhay Kumar Singh, Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, 221005, Varanasi, India, Rajendra Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, Physics, Varanasi, India and Anuradha Shukla, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, Transport, Planning and Environment, New Delhi, India
Falguni Patadia, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, Pawan Gupta, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Lorraine Remer, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
Michael R Giordano, Drexel University, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Benjamin Werden, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States, Khadak Mahata, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany, Puppala S Praveen, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, Arnico K Panday, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal and Peter F DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Virginia Peterson Andrews, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Kimberly D Genareau, University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Aaron Naeger, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Christopher J Schultz, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
