ARIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Model Development and Applications

• Biosphere-Energy-Economy-Climate Models
• Climate and Air Quality Dose-Response Models for various ecological/epidemiological and other biota systems.

implementation of Data Archival and Retrieval  System

As part of the research activities described above, a number of data sets, such as station time-series and spatial grid resolution based climatology, established from global circulation analyses and output from RCM simulations, are archived and maintained. The list of data sets to be made available is being developed, but would include:

Geophysical Parameter Retrieval

• Statistical & inversion methods
• Weighting functions

Atmospheric Parameters

• Winds

• Atmospheric profiles

• Precipitation

• OLR

• Aerosol concentration

• Cloud information

• Radiation budget

Land and Ocean Parameters

• Sea surface temperature
• Sea surface winds
• Vegetation index
• Land surface parameters

Application of derived parameters

• Intra-seasonal variability
• Tropical/extra-tropical systems
• Drought monitoring
• Rainfall variability
• Air-sea interaction
• Regional/local weather systems

• Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling of Planetary Boundary Layers.

• Physico-Chemistry of Polluted Atmospheric and the Generation of Secondary Pollutants.

• Tropospheric and Stratospheric Ozone Monitoring and Modelling
• Development of photochemical models for the West African Upper Atmosphere
• Studies of UV Penetration Associated with Ozone Layer Depletion
• Detection of stratospheric trends which indicate climate change or could affect climate
• Understanding and modeling of stratospheric processes, trends and their effects on climate

***    planned medium to long range R&D Activities

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