Aerosols in China
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aerosol chemical compositions; aerosol source apportionment; secondary formation; particulate nitrate; atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aerosols in the atmosphere have adverse effects on human health, degrade air quality, reduce visibility, and influence the climate and ecosystem. However, the scientific understanding of these impacts remains somewhat limited, due to the highly complex and dynamic nature of aerosols and the convoluted influences of emission sources, atmospheric processes, and meteorological conditions. In recent years, governments in various countries have implemented a range of policies in order to mitigate air pollution. As a result, both the mass concentrations and chemical compositions of aerosols have dramatically altered, e.g., nitrate aerosols instead of sulfate have become the major cause of haze pollution in China, while primary emissions such as resident wood burning and forest wildfires deteriorate the air quality in the US. Thus, obtaining both long-term continuous measurements of aerosol compositions with sub-hourly time resolutions and three-dimensional observations with second or minute time resolutions is essential to understanding the temporal variations in and spatial distributions of aerosol characteristics, as well as the sources and evolution processes that propel these variations.
Dr. Peng Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aerosol chemical compositions
- aerosol source apportionment
- secondary formation
- regional transport
- air pollution
- haze mitigation
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