Biogenic and Anthropogenic Volatile Organic Compounds: Sources, Transport, and Impacts on Atmospheric Chemistry
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 198
Special Issue Editors
Interests: analytical atmospheric chemistry; air toxics; mass spectrometry; volatile organic compounds (VOCs); laboratory and field experiments; air quality
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Interests: aqueous secondary organic aerosols; aqSOA; atmospheric aqueous-phase chemistry; aqueous chemical aging; aqueous photolysis; chemical kinetics; reaction mechanisms; atmospheric modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will present recent development in the field of anthropogenic and biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) measurements and modeling to identify their emission sources and how they impact air quality, climate, and atmospheric chemistry. VOCs are key drivers of tropospheric ozone (O3) and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation. Tropospheric O3 has significant impact on air quality through photochemical smog formation and has direct health impacts as it is a pulmonary irritant. In addition to this, O3 harms plant metabolism and damages crops. On the other hand, SOA contributes directly to atmospheric radiative forcing and contributes to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation, thereby contributing to climate. There is a pressing need to quantify VOCs from anthropogenic and biogenic sources, understand their transport and interaction, and identify various emission sources to design effective mitigation policies.
Topics of interest for this Special issue will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Atmospheric Chemistry of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs);
- Analytical Techniques for Atmospheric VOC Measurements;
- Anthropogenic/Urban VOC emissions;
- VOC emissions in Megacities;
- Laboratory and Field Experiments;
- Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements;
- Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions;
- Atmospheric Models and Satellite Remote;
- Health Impact of VOCs.
Dr. Chinmoy Sarkar
Prof. Dr. Tomasz Gierczak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- volatile organic compounds
- analytical techniques
- atmospheric chemistry
- numerical modeling
- urban VOCs
- source apportionment of VOCs
- biosphere-atmosphere interactions
- laboratory and field experiments.
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