Impacts of modified Richards equation on RegCM4 regional climate modeling over East Asia

Tropospheric Chemical Transport Modeling over East Asia

Regional con icts over mineral rights in South East Asia

Several of the ongoing con icts in South East Asia are internal disputes driven by con icts over revenues from mineral projects. In order to understand these con icts it is necessary to study the sharing arrangements between regions within countries. This paper looks at typical regional wealth-sharing arrangements to determine when such arrangements are likely to break down and when con icts er...

Aerosols and Climate: a Perspective over East Asia

Aerosol is becoming a central theme in the climate research arena, due to many new findings concerning their significant direct and indirect effects on climate (e.g. by altering temperature, cloud, radiation and precipitation) and to the large uncertainties in our estimates of aerosol forcing on climate. Despite the large loading and complex properties of East Asian aerosols, our knowledge of t...

Climate Change Impacts on East Africa

Africa contains about one-fifth of all known species of plants, mammals, and birds, as well as one-sixth of amphibians and reptiles. These species compose some of the world’s most diverse and biologically important ecosystems such as savannahs, tropical forests, coral reef marine and freshwater habitats, wetlands and montane ecosystems. These globally important ecosystems provide the economic f...

MICS-Asia II: Modeling gaseous pollutants and evaluating an advanced modeling system over East Asia

An advanced modeling system with a ‘‘one-atmosphere’’ perspective, Models-3/Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system, driven by MM5/NCEP reanalysis data as the meteorology, and GEOS-Chem outputs as boundary values was applied to simulate the O3, and other gaseous pollutants (SO2 and NO2) evolution among other atmospheric chemicals for July 2001. Comparisons had been made with ot...