Atmospheric Deposition in Forested Mountain Areas
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 184
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2. Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, 128 01 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: ambient air quality; atmospheric deposition processes; ground-level ozone
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Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric deposition is a key process that contributes to the removal of various agents from our atmosphere, thus enabling it to clean itself. However, it also introduces these agents into other Earth spheres: it brings water, nutrients and pollutants into ecosystems and the environment. This crucial process involves different mechanisms influenced by various factors, including the capacity and spatial distribution of natural and anthropogenic emission sources, meteorological processes, atmospheric chemistry, land use and ecosystems. Atmospheric deposition occurs via wet or dry pathways. The former is an episodic process related to rain and snow events, while the latter is the continuous, direct transfer of gases and particles to the Earth's surface. Occult deposition, which is related to fog and rime, is often overlooked due to a lack of data. However, it is known to contribute substantially to total deposition fluxes in certain areas, such as mountain forests.
Acid deposition, which is caused by the long-range transport of air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from areas with high levels of emissions, resulted in significant damage to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in fairly clean regions such as Scandinavia and north-eastern USA in the 1970s. Stringent emission reductions have substantially improved acid deposition in Europe and the US since then, but it has become a challenge in other parts of the world, such as Southeast Asia, due to its fast-growing population and related activities.
This Special Issue seeks manuscripts that present new insights into processes related to wet, dry and occult deposition pathways. We are interested in studies from different world regions and environments. We invite the contribution of articles reporting on observation-based and modelling studies related to wet, dry and occult deposition. We particularly welcome contributions that elucidate the deposition of major ions and trace elements, including both inorganic and organic species. We gladly accept studies considering the role of ongoing climate change in atmospheric deposition processes. Both original research studies and review articles are welcome.
Dr. Iva Hůnová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- atmospheric deposition fluxes
- wet-only deposition
- dry deposition
- fog pathway
- rime-ice pathway
- wash out
- rain out
- gases
- particles
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