Emission Inventories and Modeling of Air Pollution
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air emission inventories; air pollution; modeling of air quality; modeling of volcanic ash dispersion; ultraviolet radiation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution is a result of complex interactions between atmospheric emissions and weather. Emission inventories, which describe the configuration of pollutants emitted from different sources, are indispensable for gaining insights into policies, plans, and projects to control air pollution; they are used as inputs for chemical transport models to simulate the dispersion and photochemical reactions of pollutants in the atmosphere. Apart from emission inventories, the modeled values are affected by selected parameters, schemes, and even spatial resolution. The computed results must agree with atmospheric and air quality records to test the validity of emission inventories and atmospheric modeling. As such, emission inventories are a powerful tool for air quality management that can allow us to understand the behavior of contaminants in the atmosphere. This Special Issue will focus on, but is not limited to, contributions related to the following topics:
- Developing atmospheric emission inventories;
- Assessment of emission inventories using air pollution modeling;
- Evaluation of models for both air quality and atmospheric variables;
- Influence of parameters, schemes, spatial resolution, and initial conditions on modeling air pollution;
- Modeling of future scenarios due to changes in the emission inventory.
Dr. René Parra
Prof. Dr. Xiaohong Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution modeling
- modeling performance
- future scenarios for air pollution
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