Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

Z Li, WKM Lau, V Ramanathan, G Wu… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing severity of droughts/floods and worsening air quality from increasing
aerosols in Asia monsoon regions are the two gravest threats facing over 60% of the world …

Atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: source attribution, emission factors and regulation

K Ravindra, R Sokhi, R Van Grieken - Atmospheric environment, 2008 - Elsevier
There is an increasing concern about the occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) in the environment as they are ubiquitous in ambient air and some of them are …

An overview of ACE‐Asia: Strategies for quantifying the relationships between Asian aerosols and their climatic impacts

BJ Huebert, T Bates, PB Russell, G Shi… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program (IGAC) has conducted a series of
Aerosol Characterization Experiments (ACE) that integrate in situ measurements, satellite …

Atmospheric brown clouds: Hemispherical and regional variations in long‐range transport, absorption, and radiative forcing

V Ramanathan, F Li, MV Ramana… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The study uses satellite observations, global assimilated aerosol data sets, Atmospheric
Brown Clouds (ABC) observatories, a Monte Carlo aerosol‐cloud‐radiation model and a …

Direct observations of the atmospheric processing of Asian mineral dust

RC Sullivan, SA Guazzotti, DA Sodeman… - Atmospheric …, 2007 - acp.copernicus.org
The accumulation of secondary acids and ammonium on individual mineral dust particles
during ACE-Asia has been measured with an online single-particle mass spectrometer, the …

Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid‐Pacific

TF Eck, BN Holben, O Dubovik… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The column‐integrated optical properties of aerosol in the central eastern region of Asia and
midtropical Pacific were investigated based on Sun/sky radiometer measurements made at …

The Joint Aerosol–Monsoon Experiment: A new challenge for monsoon climate research

KM Lau, V Ramanathan, GX Wu, Z Li… - Bulletin of the …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Aerosol-and moonsoon-related droughts and floods are two of the most serious
environmental hazards confronting more than 60% of the population of the world living in the …

Shortwave radiative forcing and efficiency of key aerosol types using AERONET data

OE García, JP Díaz, FJ Expósito… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
The shortwave radiative forcing (ΔF) and the radiative forcing efficiency (ΔF eff) of natural
and anthropogenic aerosols have been analyzed using estimates of radiation both at the …

Characterization of Asian dust during ACE-Asia

R Arimoto, YJ Kim, YP Kim, PK Quinn, TS Bates… - Global and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
ACE-Asia was a multi-national collaboration organized to investigate and understand the
chemistry, radiative properties, and climatic effects of mineral dust and other aerosol …

Optical properties of soot–water drop agglomerates: An experimental study

EF Mikhailov, SS Vlasenko, IA Podgorny… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC) are the largest contributors to the aerosol
absorption in the atmosphere, yet the absorption cross sections of BC and OC per unit mass …