Emissions/Transportation of Air Pollutants and Related Control Policies
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 October 2021) | Viewed by 5087
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The air pollutants (e.g., NOx, SO2, VOCs, PM2.5, dust, etc.) from the related sources could be transported following the wind patterns to the “receptor regions” and undergo photochemical and chemical processing to form other kinds of secondary species, such as O3, organic aerosols, PANs, and so on, during the transportation. The recent intense sandstorm over the north of China in early March and the regular mountain fire smoke covering North American during summer/fall represent two extreme examples of the influence of the transportation of air pollutants to local air quality. The local atmospheric pollutions could be caused by mixing of local emissions of primary or secondary air pollutants with regional or larger scale transported compounds.
Numerous studies have showed the contribution of the transported pollutants in some typical locations, such as Beijing, New York City, Paris, and so on; however, there is still a large research gap for other regions, which have not raised as much attention. At the same time, there are some unconventional pollutant emissions (such as VOCs emission from shale gas productions in US) and unusual extreme pollutant events influenced by the pollutant transportation (e.g., the above-mentioned sandstorm, mountain fire smoke, and biomass burning) have raised much attention, which could also provide some new insights to the regional scale air quality. Thus, we organized this Special Issue to better understanding local air pollutants sources and help local governments to establish relevant clean emission controls. The topics of this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
(1) The identification of air pollutants emissions from some unconventional sources or special extreme events;
(2) The identification of the tracers for the transported air pollutants;
(3) The atmospheric processing during transportation;
(4) The contributions of transported pollutants to local air quality;
(5) The emission control policies and their social effects (e.g., health, economic development, etc.).
Dr. Jie Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- source emissions
- long-term transportation
- control policies
- special events (sandstorm, fire smoke, biomass burning, etc).
