„ ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY MODELING GROUP

  Recently, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) was successfully launched. It is expected to provide us a crucial opportunity of measuring and diagnosing air quality in East Asia. As an effort to maximize this opportunity, the ASIA-AQ1) campaign was conducted in 2024 as a follow-up study of the 2016 KORUS-AQ2) campaign and 2021~2023 SIJAQ3)/GMAP4) campaign. The ASIA-AQ campaign is a cooperative project in which many research teams participate and a multi-platform project employing satellites, research aircrafts, research vessels, ground-based networks, and global/regional chemical transport models. Models will provide daily air quality forecasts that support the coordination of research flight tracks and a comprehensive analysis on measurements.

The objectives of the campaign

  - Investigating unknown mechanism of secondary PM formation in winter

  - Mapping air pollution in Asia and large point source characterization

  - Calibrating/Validating of GEMS products

Participating organizations

  - Korea: NIER, SNU, YSU, UNIST, PKNU

  - Other countries: NASA, Univ. Bremen, MPI-C, BIRA, KNMI, Chiba Univ., JAMSTEC, etc.

1) Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality

2) Korea-United States Air Quality Study

3) Satellite Integrated Joint monitoring of Air Quality

4) GEMS Map of Air Pollution