Aerosol Measurement, Properties and Its Impacts

Dear Colleagues,

In order to understand aerosol’s effects in the atmosphere and their role in climate change, we need to understand their longevity, quantitatively predicting their emission and transportation patterns and processes.

The physical, optical and chemical properties of atmospheric aerosols are difficult to study; due to the fact that the particles have various origins, they have different physical and chemical properties, and the loadings are dependent on the meteorological conditions, which facilitate or prevent particle transport from distant areas and/or limit particle formation processes from local sources. Recently, both local and regional (as well as extreme) aerosol events have become an urgent issue, which must be addressed in aerosol/climate studies.

Currently, researchers use a wide range of equipment and facilities to study and describe aerosols’ physical and chemical properties using measurements to test the model predictions, thereby improving the regional and global models of aerosol transport and transformation patterns.

We invite inter- and transdisciplinary research papers, as well as review papers, describing the climate issues related to aerosol studies (including extreme aerosol events). 

Dr. Tymon Zielinski
Dr. Luca Ferrero
Guest Editors

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• aerosol role in climate change
• aerosol pathways/sources
• aerosol chemical composition
• transformation of aerosol optical properties
• radiative balance/radiative forcing
• remote sensing
• impacts of aerosol loadings for sustainability of global changes
• field and theoretical studies