Pacific rim research program

The impotance of the funded research will no doubt be a significant part of our global future. Sergio Montero UCB. Last night we went to a fundraising event and go to another one in Palo Alto next week. The seed money of Pacific Rim that started it all has been truly crucial to the success of this project that I think will go on for several years. It has made a huge difference in the lives of the members of the Ulithi community.

Thank you very much for your support. The PacRim grant enabled me to conduct original fieldwork in China. My collaborator and I have been producing works drawing from data collected in the fieldwork. We are deeply grateful for the support that we received from the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program.

The experiment with increased aerosol optical depths in China shows a noticeable increase in precipitation in the southern part of China in July due to the cooling in the midlatitudes that leads to the strengthening of the Hadley circulation.

Aerosol types play an important role in the determination of the global mean radiation budget and regional climate. While sulfates mainly reflect solar radiation and induce negative forcing at the surface, black carbon and large dust particles absorb substantial solar radiation and have a positive solar forcing at the top of the atmosphere, but reduce the solar radiation reaching the surface. Large dust particles also have a significant effect on thermal IR radiation under clear conditions, but this effect is largely masked by clouds generated from the model in AGCM simulations.

Black carbon and large dust particles in China would heat the air column in the middle to high latitudes and tend to move the simulated precipitation inland, i. Skip to main content. Share Email Facebook Twitter. There are 28 publications in this collection, published between and Tables Transboundary. Raul Lejano et al.