TY - JOUR
T1 - Atmospheric chemistry research in Monsoon Asia and Oceania
T2 - Current status and future prospects
AU - Tanimoto, Hiroshi
AU - Oanh, Nguyen Thi Kim
AU - Naja, Manish
AU - Lung, Shih Chun Candice
AU - Latif, Mohd Talib
AU - Yu, Liya
AU - Salam, Abdus
AU - Cambaliza, Maria Obiminda
AU - Hien, To Thi
AU - Hlaing, Ohnmar May Tin
AU - Lestari, Puji
AU - Janz, Hiranthi
AU - Khokhar, Muhammad Fahim
AU - Adhikary, Bhupesh
AU - Keywood, Melita
AU - Wang, Tao
AU - Crawford, Jim
AU - Lawrence, Mark
AU - Melamed, Megan
N1 - Funding Information:
In?recognition?of?the?common?scientific?challenges? associated with critical environmental issues, and considering emerging atmospheric chemistry activities in South and Southeast Asia (A Sustainable Atmosphere for the Kathmandu Valley (SusKat); Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon (ACAM)), IGAC explored the feasibility of forming a Southeast Asia Working? Group? at? its? steering? committee? meeting? in? 2012? with a one-year scoping period. The idea was further discussed and evolved to become an overarching Asia Working?Group,?and?the?formal?proposal?was?presented? at the 2013 IGAC SSC meeting. Then, a core-preparatory committee was formed from Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia, and the possible structure was discussed and approved in the IGAC SSC meeting in 2014. To begin with, two workshops were held with the support from the NIES International Coordination Fund for two years (2014–2015)?and?the?group?officially?started?with?the? initial 17 members and three co-chairs from Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia. This group was named as the Monsoon Asia and Oceania Networking Group (MANGO) (Tanimoto,? Kim? Oanh,? & Lawrence,? 2015a;? Tanimoto,? Kim? Oanh,? & Lawrence,? 2015b).? Since? 2017,? the? activities of MANGO have been boosted by the APN CAPaBLE fund “CBA2017-02MY-Tanimoto: Fostering of the next generation of scientists for better understanding of air quality in the Monsoon Asia and Oceania region”.
Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (CBA2017-02MY-Tanimoto), NIES, IGAC, and in-kind and logistics contributions from ARIES and AIT. We also acknowledge Maheswar Rupakheti, Erika von Schneidemesser (IASS), Julia Schmale (Paul Scherrer Institute), Iq Mead (Cranfield University), David Koh (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), Tomoki Nakayama (Nagasaki University), Silvia Bucci (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique), Federico Fierli (EUMETSAT), and Ritesh Gautam (Environmental Defense Fund) for contributing to the training course. Special thanks go to Yuriko Tan, Naoko Sasaki, Edit Nagy-Tanaka (NIES), Dang Anh Nguyet (AIT), and all other local supporting staff for their dedicated work in making the project running smoothly.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We aimed to foster the community of atmospheric scientists in the Monsoon Asia and Oceania (MANGO) region to enhance communication among scientists in different countries and strengthen collaborations with the international community, with emphasis on air quality in Asia as it impacts human health and climate change. For this purpose, we have established a regional group, the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry–MANGO (IGAC–MANGO), under the IGAC project sponsored by Future Earth and the international Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution. Through a series of committee meetings, scientific workshops, and training courses for students and early-career scientists, we analysed scientific activities in each country and identified research priorities in the MANGO region, significantly contributing to enhancing the capability and capacity of air quality research as well as fostering the next generation of scientists in the MANGO region.
AB - We aimed to foster the community of atmospheric scientists in the Monsoon Asia and Oceania (MANGO) region to enhance communication among scientists in different countries and strengthen collaborations with the international community, with emphasis on air quality in Asia as it impacts human health and climate change. For this purpose, we have established a regional group, the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry–MANGO (IGAC–MANGO), under the IGAC project sponsored by Future Earth and the international Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution. Through a series of committee meetings, scientific workshops, and training courses for students and early-career scientists, we analysed scientific activities in each country and identified research priorities in the MANGO region, significantly contributing to enhancing the capability and capacity of air quality research as well as fostering the next generation of scientists in the MANGO region.
KW - Air quality
KW - Atmospheric chemistry
KW - Climate change
KW - Human health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166314370&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.30852/sb.2020.1246
DO - 10.30852/sb.2020.1246
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85166314370
SN - 2522-7971
VL - 10
SP - 126
EP - 131
JO - APN Science Bulletin
JF - APN Science Bulletin
IS - 1
ER -