Primary Convener:
Bin Zhao, Tsinghua University

Convener:
Yu Gu, UCLA
Hong Liao, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University

Chair:
Bin Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yu Gu, UCLA
Hong Liao, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University

Atmospheric aerosols, which are formed, transformed, and removed through complex physicochemical processes, have profound impacts on human health. Besides, they affect meteorology and climate by interacting with clouds, radiation, and precipitation. Changes in meteorology and climate, in turn, influence the budget and lifecycle of aerosols. We welcome all theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that present new knowledge of aerosols and aerosol-cloud-radiation-climate interactions across all scales. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: (1) Sources, formation, evolution, and removal of aerosols, including inorganic and organic aerosols. (2) Aerosol physical and chemical processes that affect radiation and clouds, including new-particle formation and growth, cloud condensation and ice nucleation activities, multiphase chemistry, light absorption, mixing state. (3) Interactions among aerosols, radiation, liquid-, mixed-, and ice-phase clouds, and precipitation. (4) Impact of these interactions on weather, climate, and air pollution. (5) influence of meteorology and climate change on aerosols and air quality.

Index Terms
0305 Aerosols and particles
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry
3305 Climate change and variability
3311 Clouds and aerosols

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
GC - Global Environmental Change