Toward understanding the climatic effects of aerosols under hazy environments: an overview of field observations inChina

摘要

Due to its fast economical growth and high density of population, China presents a unique environment to study the direct and indirect effects of heavy aerosol loadings on regional and global climates. Thanks to the East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols: an International Regional Experiment (EAST-AIRE) (Li et al. 2007a), much knowledge has been gained concerning the temporal and spatial distributions of aerosol loading and single scattering albedo, their radiative effects and transportation mechanisms, among others. Deployment of the ARM Mobile Facility in China (AMF-China) in 2008 and enhancement of the EAST-AIRE observation capability will further help tackle with the effects of aerosols on cloud microphysics, precipitation, atmospheric adiabatic heating rate and circulation, especially on the Asian monsoon system. An overview is presented of the EAST-AIRE routine measurements and AMF intensive field campaign in 2008 in China.