​The Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) Programme Science Team Meeting was organized on November 25, 2015 at UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand.

The meeting commenced with a welcome remarks from Mr. Osamu Mizuno, Director of the Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific (RCC.AP), who expressed appreciation to the ABC scientists for making ABC programme a tremendous success in terms of networking of scientists and observatories, assessing the impacts, and demonstrating mitigation solutions while raising awareness at various national and international fora.

Mr. Kaveh Zahedi, Regional Director of UNEP Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP ROAP) and Prof. Nakajima, Chairperson of ABC-Asia Science Team delivered the opening remarks. Mr. Zahedi had stressed on the need to define new objectives for the ABC programme while Prof. Nakajima highlighted that ABC programme is a unique integration of the science of climate change and air pollution to assess the impacts on environment and society. He added that ABC has achieved significant success in terms of building a network of scientists, generating a wealth of scientific knowledge on air pollution and establishing linkages between air pollution and climate change. The data measured at the observatories located at strategic locations in Asia-Pacific region is very useful for modeling and regional assessment.

The meeting was conducted in an open and closed-door sessions. The open session discussed the following items: (i) updates of the ongoing measurements of ABC components at the respective observatories; (ii) the status of data analysis at the Data Analysis Centers located in University of Tokyo, Japan and Seoul National University, Korea; (iii) the website and database management at RRC.AP; (iv) SustKat-ABC project; and (v) the atmospheric measurements in Nepal and Bhutan. During the closed-door meeting, the future plans and the way forward for the ABC programme was discussed.

The meeting was attended by ABC Scientists and representatives from RRC.AP, UNEP ROAP and some observers from other organizations. The meeting was coordinated by RRC.AP as the ABC Secretariat in collaboration with UNEP ROAP.