Modeling aerosol climate effects over monsoon Asia: A collaborative research program.

This paper describes the latest progress of a collaborative research program entitled 'Modeling Aerosol Climate Effects over Monsoon Asia', under the Climate Sciences agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in the early 1980s, Professor Duzheng YE played a critical role in leading and formalizing the agreement). Here, the rationale and approach for pursuing the program, the participants, and research activities of recent years are first described, and then the highlights of the program's key findings and relevant scientific issues, as well as follow-up studies, are presented and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]