Save the Date for May Meeting

Dear Contributors to the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution,

We are planning to hold our 2022 TF HTAP meeting virtually during the weeks of 16-27 May.  Our current thinking is to hold four 4-hour virtual sessions during that window, which are sketched out below.  We welcome your feedback on the structure and timing of the sessions.  Although time will be limited, we invite your proposals for presentations on relevant recent findings or ongoing work.  Further information will follow as we confirm the dates and set up online registration for the virtual sessions via Zoom.

17 May 13:00-17:00 UTC 

Global Emissions of Traditional Air Pollutants (in cooperation with GEIA)

  • Introduction to and Initial Review of HTAPv3 Global Emissions Mosaic (Data release expected in March 2022)
  • GEIA Regional Working Group Initiatives

18 May 11:00-15:00 UTC

Global Emissions and Modeling of Mercury

  • Current Global, Regional, and Sectoral Emissions for Mercury
  • Developing a Global Emissions Mosaic for Mercury
  • Anticipating a Global Mercury Model Intercomparison 

19 May 13:00-17:00 UTC

Global Modeling of Ozone and Aerosols

  • New Global and Regional Source/Receptor and Tagging Results
  • Intercontinental Impacts of Marine Shipping
  • Linkages to TOAR, CCMI, AeroCom, AQMEII, MICS-Asia, PACES, MMF-GTAD
  • openFASST and Reduced Form Models

25 May 11:00-15:00 UTC

Global Emissions and Modeling of POPs/CEC

  • Current Global, Regional, and Sectoral Emissions of POPs/CEC
  • Developing a Global Emissions Mosaic for Selected POPs/CEC
  • Linkages to Regional BaP Model Intercomparison

Thank you for your continued interest and participation!

Terry Keating, Tim Butler, Jacek Kaminski, and Rosa Wu
The TF HTAP Leadership Team