Exposure Assessment of Air Pollution (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

After successfully launching the first volume of this Special Issue, "Exposure Assessment of Air Pollution": https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/exposure_pollut, we decided to expand our Special Issue into a second volume to include more related research.

The foremost aim of scientists investigating air pollution-related issues is the estimation of risk and health outcomes in exposed populations. The value of the information provided is obviously related to the models adopted, but it depends even more on the propaedeutic data for such estimates, i.e., the exposure assessment. Exposure is the consequence of pollutant emission from different sources and the following thermodynamic processes affecting those pollutants. Therefore, the prediction of such exposure is complex; nevertheless, the exposure of a selected population can be accurately measured, and such measurements are crucial to properly estimate pollutants’ dose, risk, and health effects.

People are exposed to several pollutants depending on the microenvironments where they live and work and the lifestyles that they adopt. Indeed, in the past, the scientific community has mainly investigated the air quality of outdoor environments, highlighting, as an example, the critical aspects of the existing standards. Currently, scientists are also trying to deal with the air quality of indoor microenvironments, since a number of studies have clearly recognized such microenvironments as worse than outdoor ones in terms of exposure to hazardous pollutants.

A significant advancement in characterizing exposures to pollutants can only be achieved by considering a multidisciplinary approach involving the techniques, methods, and know-how of air quality experts, metrologists, epidemiologists, engineers, chemists, and physicists. This is the purpose of this Special Issue, “Exposure Assessment of Air Pollution”, which welcomes research considering all the different aspects related to exposure assessment. In particular, the Special Issue will involve, but is not limited to, studies (a) evaluating exposure to different pollutants, particularly microenvironments (both indoor and outdoor); (b) investigating the effectiveness of technical solutions to reduce exposure; (c) modeling the dynamics of different pollutants to predict exposure; (d) highlighting the effect of instruments’ metrological performance on the proper evaluation of exposure; (e) characterizing emissions from sources not yet examined; and (f) proposing new exposure assessment methods and approaches.

Dr. Luca Stabile
Guest Editor

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• air pollution
• exposure
• airborne particles
• ventilation
• portable instruments
• indoor air quality
• outdoor air quality
• filtration
• exposure population study
• measurements
• PM chemical analysis
• pollutant dispersion