Agenda

Workshop on Dynamics, Transport and Chemistry

of the UTLS Asian Monsoon

March 7-10, 2016

NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Building 1, Room 2198 (EOL Atrium)

Monday, March 7th

Session 1: Dynamics - Chair: Laura Pan

09:00 – 09:15 Bill Randel - Workshop Introduction

09:15 – 10:00 Bill Lau - Tibetan Anticyclone, tropospheric aerosols, and UTLS transport processes

10:00 – 10:30 Yiming Liu - Location and variation of the summertime upper‑troposphere temperature maximum over South Asia and South Asian High

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Ciara Cagnazzo - Impact of ENSO and aerosols on the UTLS variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon region

11:30 – 12:00 Yutian Wu and Tiffany Shaw - The Role of Asian summer monsoon circulation on tropopause variability

12:00 – 12:30 Mathias Nützel - Trace gas variability within the Asian monsoon anticyclone on intraseasonal and interannual timescales

 

12:30 – 01:30 Lunch (on your own)

Session 2: Satellite measurements - Chair: Chiara Cagnazzo

01:30 – 02:00 Michelle Santee - Composition of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone: Climatology and variability from 10 years of Aura MLS measurements

02:00 – 02:30 Nathaniel Livesey - Quantifying “convective influence” on Asian Monsoon UTLS composition using Lagrangian trajectories and Aura MLS observations

02:30 – 03:00 Michael Schwartz - Signatures of monsoon overshooting convection in MLS water vapor

03:00 – 03:30 Break

03:30 – 04:00 Gabi Stiller - MIPAS observations of the Asian monsoon anticyclone: Focus on water vapor, tracers, and pollutants

04:00 – 04:30 Mijeong Park - ACE-FTS observations of short-lived reactive species in the UTLS

04:30 – 05:00 Mike Fromm - Inter-hemispheric transport of forest fire smoke in the stratosphere

05:00 – 07:00 Reception (FL0 Atrium)

 

Tuesday, March 8

Session 3: In-situ observations - Chair: Michelle Santee

09:00 – 09:30 Jianchun Bian - A review on the campaign of sounding water vapor, ozone and particle at Kunming and Lhasa during the Asian summer monsoon (SWOP)

09:30 – 10:00 Klaus Gottschaldt - Investigating the southern fringe of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone by aircraft observations and model simulations

10:00 – 10:30 Angela Baker - Composition, Chemistry and Transport in the UT/LS during the Asian Monsoon: Results from the CARIBIC Observatory

10:30 – 10:50 Break

10:50 – 11:20 Shradda Dhungel - Observational evidence of pollutant transport from Indo-Gangetic Plain to Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau via Kali Gandaki valley

11:20 – 11:50 Markus Rex – StratoClim update

11:50 – 12:20 Federico Fierli - Diagnosing the variability of the Asian Anticyclone at various scales: identifying processes, providing decision elements to the campaign and evaluating models.

12:20 – 12:30 Poster Introductions (4 @ 3 minutes each):

Rong-Cai Ren - Some characteristics of the stratosphere-troposphere dynamic coupling over the Tibetan plateau region

Pengfei Zhang -Interannual Variation of the South Asian High Intensity by East Asian Summer Monsoon Heating

Teresa Jorge - Overview of the Instrumentation and post-processing to be used in the 2016 Balloon-borne StratoClim field campaign in India

Jaili Luo - Intra-seasonal variability of chemical tracers over the Asian summer monsoon from satellite data

12:30 – 02:00 Lunch (through the cafeteria line – included) & poster viewing

Session 4: Lagrangian transport - Chair: Rolf Mueller

02:00 – 02:30 Bernard Legras – Transport across the tropical tropopause layer and convection

02:30 – 03:00 John Bergman - The role of Asian summer monsoon anticyclone for transport efficiency into the tropical pipe

03:00 – 03:30 Paul Konopka - The Asian summer monsoon anticyclone and its impact on the seasonality of the composition of air within the TTL

03:30 – 03:50 Break

03:50 – 04:20 Ken Bowman - Variability of Transport through the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone

04:20 – 04:50 Felix Ploeger - A potential vorticity based determination of the transport barrier in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone

04:50 – 05:20 Marta Abalos - Isentropic mixing in the NH summer UTLS

 

Wednesday, March 9

Session 5: Aerosols, clouds, radiation - Chair: Jianchun Bian

09:00 – 09:30 Jean-Paul Vernier - Satellite and balloon-borne observations of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer during the 2015 BATAL campaign

09:30 – 10:00 Terry Deshler - Balloonborne observations of size distribution volatility of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer during the 2015 BATAL campaign

10:00 – 10:30 Simone Brunamonti - Balloon measurements of water vapour and aerosol backscatter in the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) from 2010 to 2015, and outlook

10:30 – 10:50 Break

10:50 – 11:20 RuShan Gao - In situ measurements of aerosol size distributions inside the Asian monsoon anticyclone 

11:20 – 11:50 Pengfei Yu – Limited radiative effect of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer

11:50 – 12:20 Mian Chin - Natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the UTLS: Sources and role of Monsoon transport

12:20 – 01:30 Lunch (on your own)

Session 6: Model studies - Chair: Karen Rosenlof

01:30 – 02:00 Suvarna Fadnavis - Impact of Asian pollution on the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone

02:30 – 03:00 Wuke Wang - Investigating the UTLS response to the Asian summer monsoon with high-vertical resolution observations and model simulations

03:00 – 03:30 Break

03:00 – 04:00 Clara Orbe - Fast cross-equatorial transport from the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude surface

04:30 – 05:00 Brice Barret - The origin of Carbon Monoxide in the Asian Monsoon Anticyclone derived from MOZAIC/IAGOS data coupled with FLEXPART and emission

Wednesday Evening Group Dinner 6:30

 

Thursday March 10

Session 7: Transport - Chair: Ken Bowman

09:00 – 09:30 Laura Pan - Diagnosing ASM transport using model tracers

09:30 – 10:00 Rolf Muller - Export of air masses from the Asian monsoon anticyclonic circulation to the Northern hemisphere midlatitude stratosphere

10:00 – 10:30 Baerbel Vogel - CLaMS simulations of young air masses transported to the tropopause in the Asian monsoon

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Rei Ueyama - Convective influence of lower stratospheric water vapor in the boreal summer Asian monsoon region

11:30 – 12:00 Bill Randel – Control and influence of lower stratospheric water vapor in the summer monsoons

12:00 – 01:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon discussions led by rapporteurs: 45 minutes (or less) on: Synthesis, key points, outstanding questions, way forward.

Chair: Bill Randel

01:30 – 02:15 Dynamics / Transport

02:15 – 03:00 Composition and Chemistry

03:00 – 03:15 Break

03:15 – 04:00 Microphysics / Radiation

04:00 Closing remarks

Workshop adjourns