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Atmosphere, Volume 10, Issue 4

April 2019 - 65 articles

Cover Story: In the UN-ECE ICP materials project, which began around the year 2000, the soiling of experimental materials was measured together with environmental parameters at a range of European exposure stations. The data were applied to establish the exposure–response functions (ERFs) of the soiling, which were used in this work to calculate the cleaning cost for sheltered white painted steel and modern glass surfaces (which are used as indicator materials) using a standard method. The current (2018) average cleaning costs were estimated to be ~2.5 Euro/m2 year due to elevated levels of air pollution that far exceed the background level. A hypothetical 50% reduction in the air pollution was found to produce cost savings of ~1.5 Euro/m2 year. View Paper here.
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Articles (65)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,353 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Along-Valley Orographic Variations on the Dispersion of Passive Tracers in a Stable Atmosphere

  • Julian Quimbayo-Duarte,
  • Chantal Staquet,
  • Charles Chemel and
  • Gabriele Arduini

25 April 2019

A numerical model is used to investigate the transport of passive tracers in an idealized Alpine valley during stable wintertime conditions after the evening transition. The valley is composed of an upstream-valley section, which opens on a narrower...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,535 Views
14 Pages

Size-Segregated Chemical Compositions of HULISs in Ambient Aerosols Collected during the Winter Season in Songdo, South Korea

  • Kyoung-Soon Jang,
  • A Young Choi,
  • Mira Choi,
  • Hyunju Kang,
  • Tae-Wook Kim and
  • Ki-Tae Park

25 April 2019

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the molecular compositions of humic-like substances (HULISs) in size-resolved ambient aerosols, which were collected using an Anderson-type air sampler (eight size cuts between 0.43 and 11 μm)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,292 Views
11 Pages

Fundamentals of Ornamental Plants in Removing Benzene in Indoor Air

  • Yu Gong,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Peiran Wang,
  • Yinuo Lin,
  • Ruomeng Zheng,
  • Youcai Zhao and
  • Bin Xu

24 April 2019

The concentration of benzene in indoor air has received appreciable attention due to its adverse health effects. Although phytoremediation has been considered as an eco-friendly method to remove benzene, it is unclear how to select plants with a high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,851 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2019

Samples of atmospheric depositions from five types of functional areas in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China, were collected, and the concentrations of six toxic heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Ni, and Zn) were measured. Geographic information system,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,741 Views
20 Pages

24 April 2019

As people pay more attention to the environment and health, P M 2.5 receives more and more consideration. Establishing a high-precision P M 2.5 concentration prediction model is of great significance for air pollutants monitor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,770 Views
16 Pages

24 April 2019

Urbanisation largely consists of removing native vegetation. Plants that remain interact with air quality in complex ways. Pollutants can be detrimental to plant growth; plants sometimes reduce air quality, yet some species also improve it through ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,702 Views
16 Pages

Arctic Intense Summer Storms and Their Impacts on Sea Ice—A Regional Climate Modeling Study

  • Alexander Semenov,
  • Xiangdong Zhang,
  • Annette Rinke,
  • Wolfgang Dorn and
  • Klaus Dethloff

23 April 2019

Various temporal and spatial changes have manifested in Arctic storm activities, including the occurrence of the anomalously intense storms in the summers of 2012 and 2016, along with the amplified warming and rapidly decreased sea ice. To detect the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,963 Views
23 Pages

Understanding Spatial Variability of Air Quality in Sydney: Part 2—A Roadside Case Study

  • Imogen Wadlow,
  • Clare Paton-Walsh,
  • Hugh Forehead,
  • Pascal Perez,
  • Mehrdad Amirghasemi,
  • Élise-Andrée Guérette,
  • Owen Gendek and
  • Prashant Kumar

23 April 2019

Motivated by public interest, the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes (CAUL) hub deployed instrumentation to measure air quality at a roadside location in Sydney. The main aim was to compare concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) measured along...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,514 Views
14 Pages

A New Clear-Sky Method for Assessing Photosynthetically Active Radiation at the Surface Level

  • William Wandji Nyamsi,
  • Philippe Blanc,
  • John A. Augustine,
  • Antti Arola and
  • Lucien Wald

23 April 2019

A clear–sky method to estimate the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) at the surface level in cloudless atmospheres is presented and validated. It uses a fast and accurate approximation adopted in several radiative transfer models, known...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
18,742 Views
32 Pages

Regional Climatic Features of the Arabian Peninsula

  • Platon Patlakas,
  • Christos Stathopoulos,
  • Helena Flocas,
  • Christina Kalogeri and
  • George Kallos

23 April 2019

The climate of the Arabian Peninsula is characterized by significant spatial and temporal variations, due to its complex topography and the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Furthermore, the role of dust in the formation of regional climate is con...

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