Atmospheric Environment and Aerosol Science
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 2404
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric pollution and aerosols have attracted substantial research interest in recent years owing to their adverse effects on human health as well as on the environment and climate change. Tremendous progress has been made to improve the understanding of the basic physical mechanisms of the environmental and climatic effects of air pollution and aerosols, as well as the interaction between the atmospheric environment, air pollution, and aerosols. However, atmospheric pollution and aerosols are still recognized as important sources of uncertainty in our understanding of processes ranging from local to global scales and of issues addressed to both the atmospheric environment and to climate change. The properties of aerosols (e.g., optical, physical) have been widely derived from ground- and space-based retrievals, but satellite-based air pollution and aerosol products still suffer from large uncertainties and low spatial-temporal resolution. Accurate and high-spatiotemporal-resolution air pollution and aerosol products are the foundation of improving the understanding of their environmental and climatic effects and improving governmental pollution control measures. Atmospheric pollution and aerosols and their associated feedback loops still need to be fully elucidated to reduce the uncertainties of their environmental and climatic effects.
This Special Issue aims to develop novel approaches to monitoring and forecasting air pollution and aerosols by integrating space and ground measurements and to collect new ideas, analyses, and results of studies conducted on the scientific environment and on climate issues related to atmospheric pollution and aerosols. Specific topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Novel physical-based and/or machine-learning-based algorithms for atmospheric environmental pollution (e.g., PM, NOx, O3, etc.) and aerosol (e.g., optical, physical, and chemical properties) monitoring and forecasting;
- Long-term, high spatial-temporal resolution of air pollution and aerosol products generation from multiple sources ;
- Integrated space–ground approach for studies on emission, sources, transport behavior, and evolution of air pollution and aerosols;
- Radiative and climatic effects of air pollution and aerosols;
- Interaction between the boundary layer dynamic and thermal dynamic properties and air pollution and aerosols;
- Response of air pollution and aerosols to human activity and mitigation strategies.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jianjun Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- atmospheric pollution (e.g., PMx, O3, NO2) monitoring and forecasting
- aerosol properties retrieval
- physical- and machine-learning-based algorithms
- ground-based measurements and satellite remote sensing
- applications of atmospheric pollution and aerosol data
- environmental and climatic effects
- boundary layer–air pollution–aerosol interaction
