Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Effects, from Observation to Model Studies
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 1737
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aerosol physical properties; cloud; aerosol-cloud interactions; climate
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Interests: aerosols optical properties; radiation; climate
Interests: aerosols, microscopy, spectroscopy
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Interests: aerosol data assimilation; atmospheric chemistry simulation; AOD inversion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric aerosols are composed of solid and liquid particles of varying composition and mixing states. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that air pollution from fine aerosols is responsible for 4.2 million fatalities per year, highlighting their impact on human health. Aerosols affect regional and global climate by scattering and absorbing incoming solar radiation. They can also affect clouds by acting as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nuclei (IN), impacting the number and size of cloud droplets, cloud lifetimes, precipitation, and ultimately climate. The latest IPCC report shows that aerosols contributed to global temperature reductions in 2010–2019 compared to pre-industrial levels. However, the magnitude of the cooling due to aerosols is highly uncertain, ranging from 0 to 0.8 °C, reflecting the important yet uncertain role of aerosols on climate. As aerosols have numerous sources and different mechanisms, their chemical composition, mixing state, particle size, and optical characteristics are highly variable, resulting in large challenges in understanding how they impact human health and climate. To address these issues, it is essential to integrate field, laboratory, and modeling studies to provide us with a better understanding of aerosol characteristics and global impact.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide recent advances in the field of broadly understood aerosol characteristics and their impacts. The Special Issue is highly relevant to laboratory experiments, field observations, remote sensing, and model simulations regarding aerosol studies that include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Arrosol source attribution, secondary formation;
- Characterization of aerosol chemical, physical, and optical properties;
- The role of aerosols in air pollution, and interaction with meteorological conditions;
- Aerosol–cloud–radiation interaction studies;
- Assimilation and simulation of aerosols.
Dr. Haochi Che
Dr. Lu Zhang
Dr. Caroline Dang
Dr. Zengliang Zang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aerosols
- air pollution
- in-situ observations
- remote sensing
- modeling simulations
- aerosol-radiation interactions
- aerosol-cloud interactions
