4a73268e-68e9-4772-b5de-c2b668151084 eng a0a53e14-f8ff-42cf-a074-d334dab77c94 Ev-K2-CNR +39 035 3230511 +39 035 3230551 Via San Bernardino 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy metadata@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org/ 2025-02-21T18:56:41 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS84 EPSG Merging regional and global chemistry, air quality and global change: SHARE-Asia in the context of the IGAC project Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: SHARE-Asia Project. 2007-07-10T00:00:00 Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: Share-Asia Project Vol.10 59-65 Developments in Earth Surface Processes - Elsevier 978-0-444-52990-9 0928-2025 The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project was created in the late 1980s to address growing international concerns over rapid changes observed in Earth's atmosphere. Much of IGAC's research effort during its first decade was directed towards assessing the effects of anthropogenic emissions on the background atmosphere. While questions remain concerning the point at which observed global/regional mean trends in component concentrations (signal) unambiguously rise above background natural variability (noise), it is now well recognized that human activities have perturbed the chemical composition of the atmosphere at local, regional, and global scales. Two overarching questions have emerged that constitute the basis for the IGAC action plan over the next decade: (1) What is the role of atmospheric chemistry in amplifying or damping climate change? (2) Within the Earth System, what effects do changing regional emissions and depositions, long-range transport, and chemical transformations have on air quality and the chemical composition of the planetary boundary layer? Within the context of the larger ABC-Asia project, a proposal was put forward for the activation of an ABC-IGAC Task focusing on the monitoring of aerosol and trace gases over the Asia–Pacific region and on estimating their impact on atmospheric chemistry and the radiation budget. The activities currently in progress, to include the Ev-K2-CNR Pyramid observatory in the Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) monitoring network under the Stations at High Altitude for Research on the Environment in Asia (SHARE-Asia) project, aim at providing an important contribution to ABC-Asia and, at the same time, will undoubtedly be an opportunity for the Italian community of global-change researchers. From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet. Only through distribution of meteoclimatic and atmospheric composition monitoring points in mountain regions, coupled with modelling simulations, will we be able to thoroughly analyze complex pollutant transport mechanisms and better understand imminent global changes. The Himalayan-Karakoram range - for its elevation and geographic location, represents one of the ideal places for studying long-range pollutant transport systems on a regional scale and for monitoring changes index by mechanisms that act on global scale through monsoon circulation.The Ev-K2-CNR with this book reached its objective of creating a unique opportunity for dialogue between major environmental scientists and experts, highlighting the close relationship between diverse themes with a common underlying thread: in-depth comprehension of the environmental phenomena which are determining the health of our planet. Elsevier Science Publishing Company PO Box 211 Amsterdam Amsterdam 100 AE Netherlands nlinfo@sciencedirect.com http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Renato Baudo Institute of Ecosystem Study, ISE-CNR 0323 556 571 0323 518 312 0323 556 513 Largo Vittorio Tonolli, 50/52 Pallanza Novara NO 28048 Italy r.baudo@ise.cnr.it http://www.ise.cnr.it WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Gianni Tartari Water Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council, Italy ( IRSA-CNR) +39 039 21694203 338-8670725 +39 039 2004692 Via del Mulino, 19 Brugherio MB 20047 Italy tartari@irsa.cnr.it www.irsa.cnr.it WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Elisa Vuillermoz Ev-K2-CNR +39 035 323 0513 + 39 035 323 0551 Via San Bernardino, 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy elisa.vuillermoz@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org/cms/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Sandro Fuzzi Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR (+39) 051 639 9559 (+39) 0516399647 Via Gobetti,101 Bologna BO 40129 Italy S.Fuzzi@isac.cnr.it www.isac.cnr.it https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=4a73268e-68e9-4772-b5de-c2b668151084&fname=mountain_witness__s.png thumbnail png SHARE International Global Atmospheric Chemistry ABC high altitude Nepal Himalaya Karakoram Asia South Asia Pakistan climate change global change eng climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere environment geoscientificInformation health society 31 179.9 10.8 83.5 http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Elsevier web site http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928202506100097 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Abstract:"Merging regional and global chemistry, air quality and global change: SHARE-Asia in the context of the IGAC project." “Merging regional and global chemistry, air quality and global change: SHARE-Asia in the context of the IGAC project” Sandro Fuzzi Developments in Earth Surface Processes Volume 10, 2007, Pages 59-65 Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: Share-Asia Project doi:10.1016/S0928-2025(06)10009