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