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1 Workshop on Dynamics, Transport and Chemistry of the UTLS Asian Monsoon March 7-10, 2016 NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Building 1, Room 2198 (EOL Atrium) Monday, March 7th Session 1: Dynamics - Chair: Laura Pan 09:00 09:15 Bill Randel - Workshop Introduction 09:15 10:00 Bill Lau - Tibetan Anticyclone, tropospheric aerosols, and UTLS transport processes 10:00 10:30 Yiming Liu - South Asian High and upper-troposphere temperature maximum in summer 10:30 11:00 Break 11:00 11:30 Ciara Cagnazzo - Impact of ENSO and aerosols on the UTLS variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon region 11:30 12:00 Yutian Wu - The Role of Asian summer monsoon circulation on tropopause variability 12:00 12:30 Mathias Nützel Is there bimodality of the South Asian High? 12:30 01:30 Lunch (on your own) Session 2: Satellite measurements - Chair: Chiara Cagnazzo 01:30 02:00 Michelle Santee - Composition of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone: Climatology and variability from 10 years of Aura MLS measurements 02:00 02:30 Nathaniel Livesey - Quantifying convective influence on Asian Monsoon UTLS composition using Lagrangian trajectories and Aura MLS observations 02:30 03:00 Michael Schwartz - Signatures of monsoon overshooting convection in MLS water vapor 03:00 03:30 Break 03:30 04:00 Gabi Stiller - MIPAS observations of the Asian monsoon anticyclone: Focus on water vapor, tracers, and pollutants 1

2 04:00 04:30 Mijeong Park - ACE-FTS observations of short-lived reactive species in the UTLS 04:30 05:00 Mike Fromm - Inter-hemispheric transport of forest fire smoke in the stratosphere 05:00 07:00 Reception (FL0 Atrium) Tuesday, March 8 Session 3: In-situ observations - Chair: Michelle Santee 09:00 09:30 Jianchun Bian - A review on the campaign of sounding water vapor, ozone and particle at Kunming and Lhasa during the Asian summer monsoon (SWOP) 09:30 10:00 Klaus Gottschaldt - Investigating the southern fringe of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone by aircraft observations and model simulations 10:00 10:30 Angela Baker - Composition, Chemistry and Transport in the UT/LS during the Asian Monsoon: Results from the CARIBIC Observatory 10:30 10:50 Break 10:50 11:20 Shradda Dhungel - Observational evidence of pollutant transport from Indo-Gangetic Plain to Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau via Kali Gandaki valley 11:20 11:50 Markus Rex StratoClim update 11:50 12:20 Federico Fierli - Diagnosing the variability of the Asian Anticyclone at various scales: identifying processes, providing decision elements to the campaign and evaluating models. 12:20 12:30 Poster Introductions 3 minutes each): Rong-Cai Ren - Some characteristics of the stratosphere-troposphere dynamic coupling over the Tibetan plateau region Pengfei Zhang - Interannual Variation of the South Asian High Intensity by East Asian Summer Monsoon Heating Teresa Jorge - Overview of the Instrumentation and post-processing to be used in the 2016 Balloon-borne StratoClim field campaign in India Jaili Luo - Intra-seasonal variability of chemical tracers over the Asian summer monsoon from satellite data 12:30 02:00 Lunch (through the cafeteria line included) & poster viewing 2

3 Session 4: Lagrangian transport - Chair: Rolf Mueller 02:00 02:30 Bernard Legras Transport across the tropical tropopause layer and convection 02:30 03:00 John Bergman - The role of Asian summer monsoon anticyclone for transport efficiency into the tropical pipe 03:00 03:30 Paul Konopka - The Asian summer monsoon anticyclone and its impact on the seasonality of the composition of air within the TTL 03:30 03:50 Break 03:50 04:20 Ken Bowman - Variability of Transport through the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone 04:20 04:50 Felix Ploeger - A potential vorticity based determination of the transport barrier in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone 04:50 05:20 Marta Abalos - Isentropic mixing in the NH summer UTLS Wednesday, March 9 Session 5: Aerosols, clouds, radiation - Chair: Jianchun Bian 09:00 09:30 Jean-Paul Vernier - Satellite and balloon-borne observations of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer during the 2015 BATAL campaign 09:30 10:00 Terry Deshler - Balloonborne observations of size distribution volatility of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer during the 2015 BATAL campaign 10:00 10:30 Simone Brunamonti - Balloon measurements of aerosol backscatter in the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) from 2013 to 2015, and outlook on the StratoClim WP2 field campaign (2016) 10:30 10:50 Break 10:50 11:20 RuShan Gao - In situ measurements of aerosol size distributions inside the Asian monsoon anticyclone 11:20 11:50 Pengfei Yu Limited radiative effect of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer 11:50 12:20 Mian Chin - Natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the UTLS: Sources and role of Monsoon transport 12:20 02:30 Lunch and extended break 3

4 Session 6: Model studies - Chair: Karen Rosenlof 02:30 03:00 Suvarna Fadnavis - Impact of Asian pollution on the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone 03:00 03:30 Wuke Wang - Investigating the UTLS response to the Asian summer monsoon with high-vertical resolution observations and model simulations 03:30 03:50 Break 03:50 04:20 Clara Orbe - Fast cross-equatorial transport from the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude surface 04:20 04:50 Brice Barret - The origin of Carbon Monoxide in the Asian Monsoon Anticyclone derived from MOZAIC/IAGOS data coupled with FLEXPART and emission Wednesday Evening Group Dinner 6:30 Thursday March 10 Session 7: Transport - Chair: Ken Bowman 09:00 09:30 Laura Pan - Diagnosing ASM transport using model tracers 09:30 10:00 Rolf Muller - Export of air masses from the Asian monsoon anticyclonic circulation to the Northern hemisphere midlatitude stratosphere 10:00 10:30 Baerbel Vogel - CLaMS simulations of young air masses transported to the tropopause in the Asian monsoon 10:30 11:00 Break 11:00 11:30 Rei Ueyama - Convective influence of lower stratospheric water vapor in the boreal summer Asian monsoon region 11:30 12:00 Bill Randel Control and influence of lower stratospheric water vapor in the summer monsoons 12:00 01:30 Lunch (on your own) Afternoon discussions led by rapporteurs: 45 minutes (or less) on: Synthesis, key points, outstanding questions, way forward. Chair: Bill Randel 01:30 02:15 Dynamics / Transport 02:15 03:00 Composition and Chemistry 03:00 03:15 Break 4

5 03:15 04:00 Microphysics / Radiation 04:00 Closing remarks Workshop adjourns 5

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