Task Team
The goal of ADOES is: To quantitatively understand the deposition flux and bioavailability of Asian dust, and its impact on biogeochemical processes and ocean ecosystem in order to provide scientific bases for the mechanism of eolian dust-ocean ecosystem-radiative gases-climate change.
ADOES is coordinated by Huiwang Gao (P.R. of China) and Mitsuo Uematsu (Japan).
The main activities of the task team fall under the following categories:
- Physical and chemical variations of dust aerosol during its downwind transportation
- Transport path and layer of dust and its deposition flux to northern Pacific Oceans
- Impacts of dust on biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystem
Click Here to read a report from SOLAS newsletter issue 11 with information on how ADOES got started, newly funded projects and recent publications.
the Joint 5th Workshop on Asian Dust and Ocean Ecosystem (ADOES) with Asian SOLAS/WESTPAC/METMOP/SALSA took place from 29 November to 2 December 2010. 33 participants from Japan, China, Korea, and the United States took part as well as invited speakers by video link. Click Here to read a full report