Air pollution set to influence Asian monsoon

ACD scientist Laura Pan recently organized a scientific workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal to study the Asian summer monsoon. The ACAM workshop brought together 120 scientists representing 17 countries to discuss the effects of air pollution on the monsoon and rainfall patterns across Asia. The other workshop chairs were Jim Crawford of NASA Langley and Arnico Panday of ICIMOD in Nepal. SciDevNet covered the ACAM workshop in a news story on July 5, 2013.