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Special Issue "Haze and Related Aerosol Air Pollution in Remote and Urban Areas"

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A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2023 | Viewed by 598

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Dear Colleagues,

The editors of Atmosphere are soliciting manuscripts for a Special Issue on haze and related aerosol air pollution in remote and urban areas. Some topics that are appropriate for this Special Issue are provided below (manuscripts on topics that are not specified here will also be considered):

Visibility and aerosol trends in areas with protected visibility status.

Modeling and/or data analysis to apportion haze to sources, including specific sources, source types, and source regions.

Description of monitoring networks for light extinction components (i.e., scattering, absorption, and extinction) and related aerosols and results from such networks.

New techniques for measuring aerosols and their optical effects.

Visibility and aerosol trends in non-protected remote and urban areas.

Theoretical studies of the optical effects of aerosols.

Prof. Dr. Mark C. Green
Guest Editor

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

haze
atmospheric visibility
light extinction
apportionment
aerosol
modeling

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Distribution and Meteorological Control of PM_2.5 and Its Effect on Visibility in Northern Thailand

Teerachai Amnuaylojaroen

Phonwilai Kaewkanchanawong

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Phatcharamon Panpeng

Atmosphere 2023, 14(3), 538; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14030538 - 11 Mar 2023

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Abstract

In the dry season, the north of Thailand always experiences reduced air quality, reduced visibility, and public health exposure from the burning of biomass domestically and in surrounding countries. The purpose of this research was to investigate the distribution and the meteorological control of PM_2.5 accumulation, as well as its effect on visibility in northern Thailand in 2020. The Geographic Information System (GIS) was applied for the analysis of the spatial distribution, while Pearson’s correlation coefficient was utilized to examine the association between PM_2.5 and meteorological variables. The results showed that the PM_2.5 concentrations were in the range of 16–195 μg/m³ in 2020. The high level of PM_2.5 in Lampang, Chiang Rai, and Chiang Mai provinces was in the range of 150 to 195 μg/m³ from January to May. Favorable meteorological conditions included low wind and relative humidity, and high temperatures contributed to high PM_2.5 concentrations in northern Thailand. Domestic burning and burning in neighboring countries contribute to huge amounts of smoke that cause low visibility in northern Thailand, especially at 1 km above ground level, with a reduced visibility in the range of 70–90% for all provinces in April. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Haze and Related Aerosol Air Pollution in Remote and Urban Areas)

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