The International Workshop on Outbreaks of Asian Dust and Environmental Regime Shift was held at LZU from August 9 to 14. The workshop was organized by the Key Laboratory of Semi-Arid Climate Change, School of Atmospheric Sciences of Lanzhou University, co-sponsored by Nagoya University and Information and Research Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment (NAMEM, Mongolia), supported by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program, B. Asia-Africa Science Platforms and State Administration Of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) 111 Project -“Semi-Arid Climate Change” Talent Recruitment Project. Nearly 100 scholars including almost 30 foreign experts attended the workshop.
On the morning of August 9, the opening ceremony was held in Room 2009, Guoyun Building. Prof. Pan Baotian, vice president of LZU, Prof. Kai Kenji from Nagoya University, Prof. Huang Jianping, Dean of School of Atmospheric Sciences, Prof. Batbayar Jadamba from NAMEM made opening speeches respectively.
The meeting was divided into academic reports and thematic lectures. The academic reports focused on the observation and simulation of dust climatic effects, sandstorm and environmental change, dust’s impact on the drought in northern China, etc. A total of more than 30 experts and scholars made oral reports, and 15 participants made posters of research achievements. During the reporting period, experts and scholars made active discussions and summarized the latest research results of the current domestic and international observation and simulation of dust. Even in the break, participants actively explored posters of research and communicated with each other. As to the thematic lectures, 9 world-class experts gave training courses to graduate students and young teachers, systematically introducing basic theory and technical methods of the dust aerosol researches. As a result, participants got a better understanding of the latest achievements in this area. On the afternoon of August 14, experts visited the Semi-Arid Climate and Environment Observatory of Lanzhou University (SACOL).
(Translated by Li Yafeng; proofread by Sissi Xu)
