| Session 2 | 
|  | Impact of aerosols on convection and weather | 
|  | Chair: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 
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|  | 11:00 AM | 2.1 | (Invited Speaker) The Impact of Asian Pollution on Pacific Storm Track  Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. Li, Y. Wang, and Y. Diao
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|  | 11:30 AM | 2.2 | The impacts of aerosol indirect forcing on tropical convection  Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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|  | 11:45 AM | 2.3 | Observational Evidence for Absorbing Aerosols' Influence on the South Asian Summer Monsoon. Are Coupled Models Ready for Probing Mechanisms?    Massimo A. Bollasina, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam
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