Optical Sensing and Metrology of Atmospheric Species: Trace Gases and Aerosols

Dear Colleagues,

Emission process awareness and emission source mapping constitute the first step toward implementing policies that aim to reduce atmospheric pollution, causing severe damage to both air quality and human health. Environmental monitoring is thus fundamental to assessing air quality and establishing trends in environmental parameters. Sensitive and selective detection techniques are thus requested to develop reliable, quickly responsive, robust, and compact sensors to identify and analyze the presence of pollutant trace gases and aerosols in air, both indoor and outdoor. Contextually, recent advances in scientific metrology are fundamental to the development of new methods for measuring gases and aerosols, the realization of measurement standards, and the transfer of these standards to users.

We are pleased to announce that a Special Issue on Optical Sensing and Metrology of Atmospheric Species: Trace Gases and Aerosols will be hosted by the open-access journal Atmosphere. The aim is to enhance the one-health approach and improve our scientific understanding of pollutants, greenhouse gases, and aerosol emissions, as well as their distribution in the atmosphere through optical sensing and metrology, with the final goal of achieving reductions in air pollution, in turn affecting the health of people, animals, and environment.

Original research examinations, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and model studies related to the theme of Optical Sensing and Metrology of Atmospheric Species: Trace Gases and Aerosols are welcome for submission.

Dr. Marilena Giglio
Prof. Dr. Weidong Chen
Dr. Andrea Zifarelli
Guest Editors

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• optical monitoring
• UAV sensing
• ground-based sensing
• gas sensing: greenhouse gases, pollutants, and radicals
• aerosol measurements