The Chemical Weather
Mark G. Lawrence A I , Øystein Hov B , Matthias Beekmann C , Jørgen Brandt D , Hendrik Elbern E , Henk Eskes F , Hans Feichter G and Masayuki Takigawa HA Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany.
B Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 0313 Oslo, Norway.
C Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, 94010 Creteil, France.
D National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Atmospheric Environment, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
E Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
F Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), 3730AE De Bilt, The Netherlands.
G The Atmosphere in the Earth System, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
H Atmospheric Composition Research Program, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan.
I Corresponding author. Email: lawrence@mpch-mainz.mpg.de
Mark Lawrence leads a junior research group hosted by the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. His research group uses numerical models to study the chemistry and physics of the troposphere. Focal points include transport processes, especially deep convection, Southern Asian regional chemistry and pollutant outflow, as well as chemical weather forecasting and other close interactions with experimental research groups. |
Environmental Chemistry 2(1) 6-8 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN05014
Submitted: 3 February 2005 Accepted: 25 February 2005 Published: 21 March 2005
Environmental Context. Meteorological weather—temperature, pressure, wind direction—is familiar to all, and contrasts with meteorological climate in short-term (weather) versus long-term (climate) influence. From the atmospheric chemistry side, the focus has largely been on the chemical climate, the long-term mean concentrations of important trace gases and aerosols. An emerging new focus of study is the chemical weather—the tremendous short-term variability of the atmospheric chemical composition, resulting from the strong influence of meteorological variability, chemical complexity, and regionally and temporally varying emissions.
* 18–21 October 2004, Barnsdale, England. www.accent-network.org
† Example projects:
ACCENT — Atmospheric Composition Change: the European Network of Excellence; www.accent-network.org
GURME — GAW (Global Atmospheric Watch) Urban Research Meteorology and Environment programme; netra1.wmo.ch/web/arep/gaw/urban.html
GEMS — Global and regional Earth-system Monitoring using Satellite and in situ data; www.ecmwf.int/research/EU_projects/GEMS/index.html
PARAGON — Progressive Aerosol Retrieval and Assimilation Global Observing Network; discussed in five articles available at ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-toc&issn=1520-0477&volume=85&issue=10
GLOREAM — GLObal and Regional Modelling; www.dmu.dk/atmosphericenvironment/gloream
