State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics
and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC)
Website: http://www.lapc.ac.cn/
Brief Introduction
The state key laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC) was set up
in 1988. The research goals are to understand the physical
and chemical processes taking place in the lower atmosphere,
and their evolutions and impacts on climate and environment.
LAPC has developed a comprehensive observation system
for the boundary layer measurement with a 325m meteorological
tower as the center affiliated with point- and phase-connected
advanced instruments and computers. LAPC has obtained
much important progress on the experimental and theoretical
study of atmospheric boundary layer structure and turbulence
over urban, Tibatan plateau and other complex terrain,
the mechanism of acid rainfall in southwest China, numerical
prediction model for urban air pollution, numerical
simulation of dust transport and its environmental impacts.
In recent years, LAPC has also developed atmospheric
chemistry and atmospheric environment laboratory with
international standard advanced instruments.
Main Research Areas
- Atmospheric boundary layer structure, turbulent
characteristic over various underlying surface and
the mass and energy exchange process between the atmosphere
and the land surface;
- Aerosols and atmospheric trace gases as well as
monitoring, numerical modeling and prediction of air
pollution
Director: Prof. Hu Fei
Deputy Director: Prof. Xu Yongfu, Prof.
Wang Yuesi, Prof. Huang Yao, Mr. Zhou Xiaosen
Tel: +86-10-62041394
Email: hufei@mail.iap.ac.cn
The Mountainous and Polar Atmospheric Research
The Mountainous and Polar Atmospheric Research (MPAR)
in IAP was established during the First Tibetan Plateau
Experiment in 1970s. It is featured in theoretical study
and analysis based on the field observations, and recently,
multi-scale modeling, regarding to the atmospheric problems
in the mountainous and polar regions.
Recent Research Activities
- Atmospheric circulation and environmental systems
in the Himalayas, and
- Atmospheric Dynamics over the mountainous and polar
regions.
A research activity ˇ°Everest Monitoringˇ± is carrying on
to trace the physical and chemical changes in the Himalayas
environmental system, on the northern slope of Mt. Everest,
more specifically, at the Base Camp area (5200 a.s.l.).
The monitoring observation is being operated every year
in 2000-2010, regarding to the local circulation and environment
systems. The finished operations result in an amazing
image that the local circulation system greatly differs
from those in the other mountain regions, and significantly
impacts the air mass and energy exchange between the surface
and troposphere. If assume this kind of mountainous circulation
dominates in the Himalayas and the other major mountains
in the Tibet, our knowledge on the surface-air mass-energy
exchange over this region would be greatly modified, with
fundamental influences on the weather and climate predicting
systems in China, by the changes in the parameters of
numerical models.
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The boundary layer study in the Arctic
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