Integrated Monitoring on Asian Atmospheric Pollutants and Their Impact on Environment and Climate; Participation of International Experiments

The physical and chemical processes of formation, emission, transport and transformation of atmospheric pollutants including acid substances, regional haze, Asian dust, biomass burning and atmospheric mercury in Asian region are very complicated, resulting in impact on regional environment and climate. Taiwan is also influenced by such impact in direct and indirect ways. Therefore, this proposed project with a reformed title Phase I (2018/8-2021/7) will continue legacy of previous Phases I-V, and further to integrate ground-based measurements, remote sensing observation, climatic dynamic analysis, and model simulation in order to analyze the physiochemical processes during the long-range transport of above atmospheric pollutants, and further to assess their impact on regional climate. Besides, we will collaborate with USA Navy and NASA’s 7-SEAS (7 South East Asian Studies) for investigating the impact of biomass burning of Southeast Asia in order to study the impact of atmospheric pollutants and biomass burning of the South Asia. Besides, we are invited by NASA to participate the CAMP2Ex (Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment) 2018 Fall campaign over the South China Sea region. So far, we have conducted the 7-SEAS’ pre-studies: 2010 Dongsha Experiment, 2011-2012 Son La Campaigns in northern Vietnam, and 2013-2015 BASELInE for identifying the characteristics of biomass burning aerosol and pollution over source and receptor regions. Meanwhile, the first special issue has published 28 papers on 2013 October of Atmospheric Environment. The Phase II (2013-2015) of 7-SEAS has been being carried out for studying the aerosol and cloud interactions. The second special issue has published 27 papers on 2016 November of Aerosol and Air Quality Research. Besides, we are planning the third special issue after 7-SEAS 2019 Spring campaign.