A34A:
Aerosols and Air Quality over South Asia and the Hindu Kush–Himalaya I
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Session ID#: 58067
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.
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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 DC, Washington, DC, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Alexandra N Karambelas, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Arlene M Fiore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Patrick L Kinney, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States, Ruth S DeFries, Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States, Sreelekha Chaliyakunnel, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, Dylan B Millet, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, United States and Tianjia Liu, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Benjamin Werden1, Michael R Giordano2, Erin Katz3, Doug Goetz4, Khadak Mahata5, Prakash Bhave6, Puppala S Praveen6, Robert J Yokelson7, Elizabeth A. Stone8, Arnico K Panday9 and Peter F DeCarlo10, (1)Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States, (2)Drexel University, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (3)Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany, (6)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (7)University of Montana, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Chemistry, Iowa City, United States, (9)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (10)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Manisha Mehra1, Puppala S Praveen2, Amit Bhujel2, Suresh Pokhrel3, Durga Prasad Dawadi4, Shanker Prasad Paudel4, Tshewang Dorji5 and Arnico K Panday3, (1)Baylor University, Department of Environmental Science, Waco, TX, United States, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)Ministry of Population and Environment, Nepal, Department of Environment (DoEnv), Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)National Environment Commission (NEC), Bhutan, Thimpu, Bhutan
Tianjia Liu1, Marena Lin2, Loretta J Mickley3, Peter J Huybers2, Ritesh Gautam4, Manoj Kumar Singh5, Ruth S DeFries6 and Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD7, (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, (5)University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, School of Engineering, Dehradun, India, (6)Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States, (7)RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Rachana Ghanshyam Kulkarni1, Pramod D Safai1, Kaushar Ali1, Sandeep Dnyandeo Wagh1, Deewan Singh Bisht2, Dilip Chate3, Prakash Rao1, Rajendra Jenamani4 and Sachin D Ghude1, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (2)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Delhi Branch, Pune, India, (3)IITM, Pune, India, (4)Indian Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India
Matthew James Alvarado1, Ekbordin Winijkul2, Rebecca Adams-Selin3, Eric Hunt2, Christopher M Brodowski4, Chantelle Rose Lonsdale5, Drew T Shindell6, Gregory Faluvegi7, Gary Kleiman8, Thomas Michael Mosier9 and Rajesh Kumar10, (1)Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States, (2)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)AER, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, (6)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (8)Orbis Air, Concord, United States, (9)World Bank, Washington, DC, United States, (10)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Chaoliu Li, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
