2016 International Asian dust and Aerosol Workshop

Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2016

Halla Hall, NIMS, Jeju, Korea

Time

08:40-09:00	Registration

SESSION 1: Opening

Chair:	Sang-Ok Han (NIMS/KMA)

09:00-09:10	Welcoming address & Congratulatory messages

(1) Jae-Cheol Nam(Vice Administrator, KMA)

(2) Byung-Ju Sohn (President of KMS)

09:10-09:25	Photoshoot for all participants & Break

KEYNOTE SPEECH

09:25-09:55	The Status and future plan of SDS-WAS activities (Alexander Baklanov, WMO)

09:55-10:25	In addition to the impact of SDS, the other effects of high concentration of dust aerosol in Asia (Xiaoye Zhang, CAMS/CMA)

10:25-10:45	Climate change and KOICA's Contribution to addressing the issue (Sang Hoon Jung, KOICA)

10:45-11:00	Coffee Break

SESSION 2: Observation and Analysis

Chair: SoonTae Kim (Ajou Univ.)

11:00-11:15	Atmospheric Mineral Aerosol Reaction (AMAR) Kinetic Module for Predicting Secondary Inorganics (Myoseon Jang, University of Florida)

11:15-11:30	Soil erodibility over Mongolia (Dulam Jugder, IRIMHE)

11:30-11:45	Observational study of dust emission under different ground surface condition in desert steppe, Mongolia (Batdelger Gantsetseg, IRIMHE)

11:45-12:00	Severe dust storm in the southwest of Kazakhstan at the end of March 2015 (Manzura Nassyrova, RSE "Kazhydromet")

12:00-12:15	Hygroscopic properties of urban aerosols and their cloud condensation nuclei activities measured in Seoul during the MAPS-Seoul campaign (Seong Soo Yum, Yonsei University)

12:15-12:30	Aerosol monitoring using GEO satellite over Northeast Asia (Mijin Kim, Yonsei University)

12:30-14:00	Lunch

SESSION 3: Modelling and Prediction

Chair: Xiaoye Zhang (CAMS/CMA)

14:00-14:15	Retrieval dust AOT and height from AIRS measurements and application for dust forecasting over Korea (Byung-Ju Sohn, Seoul National University)

14:15-14:30	Modelling the dust cycle at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center: From R&D to operational forecast (Sara Basart, Barcelona Supercomputer Center)

14:30-14:45	Primary result of Sand and dust storm model intercomparison in Asian node in 2013 spring (Yaqiang Wang, CAMS/CMA)

14:45-15:00	Recent developments on CMA environmental prediction operation (Xuekuan Ma, CMA)

15:00-15:15	The comparison of Sand and dust storm model over Asian node in 2016 (Hailin Gui, CMA)

15:15-15:30	Current Asian dust forecasting/monitoring activities of JMA/MRI (Takashi Maki, MRI/JMA)

15:30-15:45	CMAQ Simulations to Analyze the Long-term Variations of Criteria Air Pollutants in the Greater Seoul during 2004~2015 (Soontae Kim, Ajou University)

15:45-16:00	Coffee Break

SESSION 4: Issues in Dust and Aerosols

Chair: Takashi Maki (MRI/JMA)

16:00-16:15	Health Forecasting - Impact of Sahara Desert to Meningitis in West Africa (Tetsuo Nakazawa, NIMS/KMA)

16:15-16:30	Validation/assimilation of aerosol chemical transport models using the ground-based lidar network (AD-Net) (Nobuo Sugimoto, NIES)

16:30-16:45	Development of the aerosol data assimilation in KMA using surface PM10 monitoring networks (Jeong Hoon Cho, NIMS/KMA)

16:45-17:00	SDS-WAS multi-model ensemble: a tool for dust forecast and climatological analysis (Enric Terradellas, State Meteorological Agency of Spain)

17:00-17:15	Springtime trans-Pacific transport of Asian pollutants characterized by the Western Pacific (WP) pattern (Ja-Ho Koo, Yonsei University)

17:15-17:20	Closing & Announcement

18:15-21:00 Reception