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Modeling aerosol climate effects over monsoon Asia: A collaborative research program

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This paper describes the latest progress of a collaborative research program entitled “Modeling Aerosol Climate Effects over Monsoon Asia”, under the Climate Sciences agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in the early 1980s, Professor Duzheng YE played a critical role in leading and formalizing the agreement). Here, the rationale and approach for pursuing the program, the participants, and research activities of recent years are first described, and then the highlights of the program’s key findings and relevant scientific issues, as well as follow-up studies, are presented and discussed.

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20世纪80年代初, 叶笃正教授在美国能源部与中国科学院签订的气候科学合作研究协议书的起草和签订中做出了重要贡献. 本文介绍近年来在该协议下进行的合作研究项目“亚洲季风区气溶胶气候效应的模拟”的最新进展. 我们首先介绍该项目的理论基础和研究方法, 合作单位, 以及近些年的研究动态, 然后介绍讨论当前的研究结果和相关科学问题, 以及后续研究的重点.

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Acknowledgements

This paper is based on a presentation given on 23 September 2016 at “Professor Duzheng YE’s Centenary Symposium: From general circulation to global changes”. The research support by a grant from the Office of Sciences (BER), U.S. DOE, is acknowledged. WCW also thanks the support from the Key National Basic Research Program on Global Change (Grant No. 2013CB955803) to facilitate the visits to Peking University and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics.

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Wang, WC., Chen, G. & Song, Y. Modeling aerosol climate effects over monsoon Asia: A collaborative research program. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 34, 1195–1203 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-017-6319-8

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