Plenary Lecture
The Aerosol Modeling System for the Simulations of High Aerosol Concentration Events in East Asia
Professor Emeritus Soon-Ung Park
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Also with:
Director of Center for Atmospheric and Environmental Modeling
Seoul, Korea
E-mail: supark@snu.ac.kr
Abstract: Atmospheric aerosols play an important role on the climate, biogeochemistry, regional air quality and health problems. East Asia is a major source of natural (Asian dust) and anthropogenic aerosols over the Northern Hemisphere. The frequent occurrences of Asian dust events from northern China and Mongolia in an arid and semi-arid regions cause high dust aerosol concentration and anthropogenic aerosols originated from human activities and the formation by gas-to-aerosol conversion of pollutants are also abundant due to high pollutants emissions in East Asia. The mixture of these aerosols frequently causes severely adverse environmental problems, including severe dust storms, dense haze and mist events. The Aerosol Modeling System (AMS) composed of the Asian Dust Aerosol Model 2 (ADAM2) and the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model has been developed to simulate the prolonged dense haze event occurred on 10-16 January 2013 in East Asia. During this period eastern China has experienced several days of the worst air pollution with the measured maximum PM2.5 concentration at the Beijing site exceeding 990 g m-3. The simulation results indicate that the AMS model has a great potential to be used as the aerosol forecasting model for the high aerosol concentration events in East Asia. The AMS model and the simulation results are to be discussed in this presentation.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr. Soon-Ung Park holds a BSc in Meteorology from the Seoul National University in Korea, an MSc in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in USA and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Oregon State University in USA. He worked as a Research Associate and an Assistant Professor in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in USA (1978-1981). Since 1981, he had been served at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of Seoul National University in Korea as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor before he retired from Seoul National University in 2006. As a Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University, he founded “Center for Atmospheric and Environmental Modeling (CAEM)” in 2006 to pursue further studies on Atmospheric Environmental Issues including air pollution dispersion, anthropogenic aerosols, dust aerosols, acidic rain and carbon cycles in the forests. He has developed an operational Asian Dust Aerosol Model 2 (ADAM2) that is now used as an Asian dust forecasting model in Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). He is interested in the development of an Aerosol Modeling System that includes both dust aerosols and anthropogenic aerosols. He has published more than 200 papers in major reviewed journals, more than 150 in conference proceedings and more than 100 granted technical reports. Recently he served as a chairman of Asian Node of World meteorological Organization (WMO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning and Assessment System (SDS-WAS) from 2008 to 2012. He is now the Director of CAEM and a committee member of Regional Steering Group WMO SDS-WAS. He had been awarded an Academic Prize and a Distinguished Service Medal from Korean Meteorological Society, Letter of Commendations by President of Korea, Minister of Science and Technology of Korea and Minister of Education of Korea. He had received Seoul Citizen Cultural Prize by Mayor of Seoul and A Distinguished Service Red Color Decoration by the Republic of Korea. He had been cited 2000 outstanding scientists of the 21 century by American Biographical Institute and International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England..