An International Summer Course on
Aerosol and Monsoon Climate Interactions over Asia
(up to 80 hours of coherent intensive lectures
by some world leading researchers)
August 1-14, 2015
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Thematic Lecturers
(Each gives 8-10h lectures)
Yihui Ding (National Climate Center of China)
William K.M. Lau (University of Maryland)
Zhanqing Li (University of Maryland)
Xiaohong Liu (University of Wyoming)
Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University)
Bin Wang (University of Hawaii)
Guoxiong Wu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics)
Renyi Zhang (University of Texas A&M)
Complementary short guest lectures also available
June 15, 2015
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Course Description
Being the most densely populated and the fastest developing region in the world, Asia
has undergone the most dramatic changes on earth at an unprecedented rate in all aspects,
rendering a natural test bed for witnessing and understanding interactions between
anthropogenic activities, environment and climate and their changes. Frequently reported
episodes of severe pollution characterized by high concentrations of aerosol particles not
only affect people’s daily lives and health, but also affect the monsoon climate of Asia
which has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Unraveling relationships
between aerosols and the Asian monsoon climate system are critical to making sound
policies for sustainable development and for the well-being of over half of the world’s
population. Dramatic increase in studies on aerosol and monsoon in Asia have taken
place in recent decades. In the past, aerosol and monsoon studies were carried out rather
independently by two distinct communities who had little interactions. It is now evident
that the two are intertwined to jointly affect the climate of Asia significantly. To foster
the collaborative efforts and to train a new generation of scientists to be able to engage in
interdisciplinary studies, we have invited some world leading researchers in both fronts to
give an intensive summer course through a series of systematic, coherent and
comprehensive lectures.
Course title:
Aerosol and Monsoon Climate Interactions in Asia
Location:
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China
Period:
August 1-14, 2015
Cost:
Registration fee $300, or 1800RMB
Deadlines:
Registration: July 15, 2015
Accommodation Booking: July 15, 2015
Language:
English
Homepage:
http://973cloud.bnu.edu.cn/zxdt/110902.html
Contact:
Mr. Meng Wang
Phone: 01186-15210212535
Email: wangmengofbnu@163.com
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Syllabus
1. Asian monsoon system
1.1 Fundamentals of monsoon dynamics
1.2 Mechanisms of Asian monsoon onset, evolution, and driving forces
1.3 Roles of the Tibet Plateau, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea
1.4 Monsoon variability
1.5 Monsoon predictability
1.6 Monsoon weather and climate
2. Aerosol
2.1 Aerosol properties
2.2 Aerosol formation mechanisms
2.3 Aerosol transportation, transformation and scavenging
3. Primary mechanisms behind the aerosol impact on climate
3.1 Aerosol radiation interactions (ARI)
3.2 Aerosol cloud interactions (ACI)
3.2.1 Warm clouds
3.2.2 Deep convective clouds (DCC)
3.2.3 Cirrus clouds
4. Aerosol and climate changes in Asia: An observation perspective
4.1 East Asia
4.1.1 Aerosol long-term trend and optical properties
4.1.2 Potential impact of aerosols on East Asian climate changes
4.2 South Asia
4.2.1 Spatial and temporal variations of aerosol
4.2.2 Potential roles of aerosol on climate changes
4.3 Asia-Pacific Rim
5. Model simulations and theories of aerosol and monsoon climate interactions
5.1 East Asia
5.1.1 Monsoon circulation
5.1.2 Temperature
5.1.3 Precipitation
5.2 South Asia
5.2.1 ADRF on the SST trend
5.2.2 Impact of light absorbing aerosols in snow/glaciers on the Asian monsoon
5.3 Asia-Pacific Rim
6. Impact of the Asian monsoon on aerosols
6.1 Seasonal variations
6.2 Inter-annual and decadal variations
6.3 Vertical and Horizontal transport
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Lecturers and Themes
Yihui Ding, Academician, National Climate Center of China
1.
2.
Part I: Onset , advance, impact and long –term variations of the Asian summer
monsoon;
Part Ⅱ:Outbreak, propagation, impact and long-term variation of the Asian
winter monsoon
Dr. William K.M. Lau
1.
2.
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5.
Global monsoon system.
Theories of aerosol-monsoon interactions
Modeling of aerosol-monsoon water cycle interactions
Aerosol-monsoon interactions in South Asia
Roles of aerosols in monsoon climate change
Prof. Zhanqing Li
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Fundamentals of aerosol physical properties and observation
Aerosol radiation interaction (ARI)
Aerosol cloud interactions (ACI)
East Asia climate changes and the roles of aerosol
Regional experiments concerning aerosol-monsoon interactions
Prof. Xiaohong Liu
1. Overview of aerosol treatments in GCMs
2. Overview of cloud microphysics parameterizations in GCMs
3. Aerosol module in CESM-CAM5: Evaluation, latest development and future
directionsAerosol-cloud-climate interactions in CESM-CAM5: Representation
and latest development
4. Modeling of aerosol-cloud-climate interactions
Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University)
1.
2.
3.
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5.
6.
Fundamentals of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-climate interactions
Aerosol-cloud interactions in marine stratocumulus
Aerosol-cloud interactions in deep convective clouds
Aerosol impacts on severe convective storms and tropical cyclones
Aerosol-cloud interactions in layer mixed phase and ice clouds
Observational needs and capabilities
Prof. Bin Wang (University of Hawaii)
1. Fundamentals of monsoon dynamics
2. Monsoon variability
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3. Monsoon predictability
4. Climate changes in Asian monsoon regions.
Prof. Renyi Zhang (University of Texas)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Fundamentals of aerosol formation
Aerosol evolution and growth processes
Optical and hygroscopic properties of aerosols
Modeling of aerosol-cloud-climate interactions on varying spatial scales
Asian pollution outflows and the winter storm track across the Pacific rim
Complimentary Short Lectures:
Guoxiong Wu, Academician, Institute of Atmospheric Physics
1. Mechanisms of Asian summer monsoon onset, evolution, and driving force
Tianjun Zhou: Institute of Atmospheric Physics
2. Changes of East Asian summer monsoon: Contributions of external forcings and
internal variability
Jianping Li: Beijing Normal University
3. Impacts of monsoon on aerosol.
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Biographies of the lecturers
Ding Yihui (1938-). ， Academician of the Chinese
Academy of Engineering ， is professor and special
adviser on climate change of the China Meteorological
Administration. Now he is vice-chairman of the China
Expert Panel on Climate Change. He once served as
director general of National Climate Change, CMA and
co-chair of Working Group 1 of Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Chang (IPCC). Prof. Ding graduated from
Department of Geophysics of Beijing University in 1963
and graduated from Graduate College, Chinese Academy
of Science in 1967. He has been involved in atmospheric
science and climate change as well as severe weather for long time, achieving important
results. And he has participated in and led many China’s key research projects. He has
made outstanding contributions to both research and prediction of the Asian monsoon,
heavy rainfalls in East Asian, typhoon genesis over the West-Pacific, the climate change
in China, and development of regional climate models. He participated in and chaired the
preparation of IPCC First up to the Fifth Assessment Reports as one of world scientists
who have outstanding contribution to climate change studies. In 1987 and 1995, he won
the 3rd class and 2nd class State Natural Science Prize, respectively. In 2002, he won
HLHI Science and Technology Progress Award. In 2003 and 2005 he received the 1st
class and 2nd State Science and Technology Progress Prize, respectively. In 2005, he
received WMO Award for outstanding work in the field of climate prediction, climate
change and monsoon climatology.
William K.M. Lau, University of Maryland
President, AGU’s Atmospheric Science Section; former
Deputy Director for Atmospheres, Earth Science Division,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; now senior scientist and
adjunct professor at University of Maryland. Dr. Lau's research
interests include climate dynamics, atmospheric processes, airsea interaction, aerosol-water cycle interactions, and climate
variability and global change. He received many awards and
honors including Honorary Professor at City University of
Hong Kong; Distinguished Alumni University of Hong Kong,
William Nordberg Memorial Award; AMS Clarence Leroy
Miesinger Award, “Top Ten Science and Technology Talents
in the Washington area; John C. Lindsay Memorial Award, AGU and AMS Fellow. He
has published over 254 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is the senior
author of a popular reference book “ Intraseaonal Variability of the Atmosphere-Ocean
Climate System”, Praxis, Springler.
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Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland
Professor, Dept of Atmos. & Oceanic Sci and ESSIC at
University of Maryland, adjunct 1000-Plan scholar at the
Beijing Normal University. He has engaged in a widerange of studies concerning earth’s climate, radiation
budget, aerosol, cloud, precipitation, remote sensing,
biomass
burning,
atmospheric
and
terrestrial
environment. He led two international field experiments
EAST-AIRE and DOE’s AMF-China, and a China’s
Key Basic Research Project on aerosol and climate in
China. He has received honors and awards from US,
Canada and Germany including AGU Fellow and Yoram
Kaufman Award, the Humboldt Research Award, Head of the Public Service Award,
Alouette Award, Medal of Technology, Agatha Bystram Info Award, Most-cited Chinese
Authors in earth and environmental sciences by Elsevier. He has authored 216 articles in
leading journals including Nature, Science, Nature-Geosci., PNAS with 5260 SCI
citations and H-index of 41. He currently serves an editor of J. Geophy. Res. –
Atmosphere.
Xiaohong Liu, University of Wyoming (to be provided)
Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Science, University
of Wyoming. He is the Endowed “Wyoming Excellence Chair”
in Climate Science. He was a Senior Scientist at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory from 2006 to 2013. He is a core
member of the development team of the Community Atmosphere
Model, the atmospheric component of the Community Earth
System Model. He conducts research in the fields of aerosol
modeling and aerosol-cloud interactions, especially on cold
cirrus and mixed-phase clouds. He has received awards and
honors, including “Highly Cited Researcher 2014” by Thomson-Reuters, World
Meteorology Organization Young Scientist Award in 2001, 100-Talent Plan of Chinese
Academy of Science in 1997-1999, and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in
1996-1997. He has published ~130 referred articles. He is an editor of the journal
“Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics”.
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Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor at the institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel. He pioneered the impacts
of aerosols on clouds, precipitation for obtaining insights
in both weather modification and climate change, which
he claims that they are different only by their scales. He
did so by numerous aircraft campaigns in 5 continents,
complemented by his unique developments of satellite
measurements, for which he received from the American
Meteorological Society the Verner Suomi Medal, “for
key contributions to remote measurement and
interpretation of rainfall, cloud optical properties, and
cloud microphysical properties". He received many other
awards, including the Friendship Award, of the People's Government of China, "in
appreciation to outstanding contribution to the economic construction and society
development of China". He mentored many early career scientists around the world, as
well as extensively collaborated with senior scientists, which resulted in over 160 papers
which are highly cited, 9 of them in Science and Nature. Presently he is leading novel
initiatives for quantifying the climate forcing due to cloud-aerosol interactions.
Bin Wang, University of Hawaii (Needs to expand)
Dr. Bin Wang is Professor at the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences at University of Hawaii. He graduated from Physical
Oceanography Department of Ocean University of China and received
his M.S. from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS in 1981 and his
Ph D. from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute at Florida State
University in 1984. Bin Wang was elected Fellow of American Meteorological Society in
2009 and elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union in 2013. He received the CarlGustaf Rossby Research Medal in 2015 “for creative insights leading to important
advances in the understanding of tropical and monsoonal processes and their
predictability”.
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Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University (Need Update based 2013 COAA
Professor, the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University (TAMU), Ph.D. (MIT), and
Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair and University
Distinguished Professor. His research led to important
discoveries in photochemical oxidation of hydrocarbons;
formation, growth, and properties of aerosols; urban and
regional air pollution; ambient measurements of trace
gases and aerosols; and assessment of aerosol-cloudclimate interaction and the impacts of human activities
on the environment, weather, and climate. He has
published more than 180 papers in peer-refereed journals
with an h-index of 51 (Web of Science). Zhang is an
editor and former editor for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, JGR- Atmospheres
(2009-2013), and senior editor for Oxford Research Encyclopedia - Environmental
Science, Oxford University Press, and is a member of the International Commission on
Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution. and chaired the American Meteorological
Society’s Atmospheric Chemistry Committee (2010-2014). He has received several
awards, including honorary professorships at Peking University and Fudan University,
the Outstanding International Collaboration Researcher Award from the China National
Science Foundation, The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement
Award—Research at TAMU, the Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International
Research at TAMU, and the Cheung-Kong Distinguished Scholar Award from the
Ministry of Education–China. He is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical
Union and American Meteorological Society.
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