Presentation Schedule

(subject to change)

Opening Schedule

Themes

A. GASES, AEROSOLS AND CLOUDS

B. PRECIPITATION AND FORECASTING

C. CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE

D. ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS

E. STRATOSPHERE- TROPOSPHERE INTERACTIONS

F. POLAR ATMOSPHERES

G. ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRICAL EFFECTS

H. OZONE AND RADIATION

I. PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES

J. JOINT SYMPOSIA WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF SNOW AND ICE (ICSI) OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES (IAHS)

S. SPECIAL EVENTS

A. GASES, AEROSOLS and Clouds

A1 Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds
A2 Air Pollution over Asia
A3 Carbon Cycle and Climate
A4 Water Stable Isotopes and Climate: Modelling and Observations
A5 Mineral Dust Processes from Microphysical to Climate Scales
A6 Advanced Remote Sensing of Trace Constituents in the Atmosphere
A7 NOx from Lightning and Anthropogenic Production, and its Transport and Chemical Transformation by Deep Convection
A8 Intercontinental Transport of Pollution

B. PRECIPITATION AND FORECASTING

B1 The Impacts of Aerosol Pollution and Biomass Burning on Precipitation
B2 Space-Based Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
B3 Organization, Structure, Modelling and Consequences of Tropical Precipitation
B4 Advances in Weather Research
B5 Advances in Data Assimilation

C. CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE

C1 Natural Climate Oscillations: ENSO and NAO/AO, Influences and Predictability
C2 Regional Climate Studies
C3 Climate Projections to 2100 and Beyond
C4 Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Their Past and Future
C5 Physics and Feedbacks Leading to Droughts and Wet Periods
C6 Climate System Model Development, Verification, and Intercomparison
C7 The Diurnal Behavior of the Atmosphere
C8 General Climate Contributions
C9 Explaining the Climates of Historic Times: Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Influences
C10 Sea Level Rise: Past Changes and Future Expectations
C11 Observational and Model Estimates of Climate Sensitivity
C12 C12: Hydrological Process and Water Security Related to Climate Change and Human Activity

D. ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS

D1 Boundary Layer Processes and Interactions with the Land and Ocean
D2 Severe Weather Systems
D3 Dynamics and Variability of Monsoon Systems and their Effect on Climate
D4 Asian Monsoon Stability and Change
D5 Orographic Impacts on Weather and Climate

E. STRATOSPHERE- TROPOSPHERE INTERACTIONS

E1: Dynamical and Chemical Coupling of the Stratosphere and Troposphere and Associated Impacts on Climate and Environmental Change (ICMA and IOC)

F. POLAR ATMOSPHERE

F1 Polar Clouds, Aerosols and Weather Systems
F2 Climate Variability and Change in the Polar Regions: Causality and Prediction

G. ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRICAL EFFECTS

G1 Global Lightning and Climate
G2 Precipitation and Electrification in Convective Clouds
G3 Middle Atmosphere Electrical Events Associated with Tropospheric Storms

H. OZONE AND RADIATION

H1 Chemistry-Climate Interactions (including Ozone Interactions)
H2 Solar Activity and its Influences on the Earth's Weather and Climate

I: PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES

I1 Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution
I2 Aeronomy of Planetary Atmospheres: Comparative Planetology

J: JOINT SYMPOSIA WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF SNOW AND ICE (ICSI) OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES

J1 Modeling Forest Snow Processes
J2 Glacier Mass Balance and its Coupling to Regional and Hemispheric Circulation
J3 Mountain Snow and Ice Cover

SPECIAL EVENTS

S1 From General Circulation to Global Change: A Celebration of the 90th Birthday of the Senior Academician Prof Ye Duzheng
S2 Special Symposium: The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report