Special Issue "Atmospheric Shipping Emissions and Their Environmental Impacts"
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023 | Viewed by 8449
Special Issue Editors

Interests: ship emissions; air quality modelling; atmospheric transport; biogeochemical cycle

Interests: shipping emissions; chemistry transport modeling; aerosols; emission modeling

Interests: shipping emissions; air pollution; CO2; remote sensing

Interests: shipping emissions; atmospheric chemistry; chemistry transport modeling; ship exhaust characterisation

Interests: air quality assessment; multiscale atmospheric dispersion modelling; climate interactions; energy transition aspects; circular economy
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Shipping is an important global source for air pollutants and greenhouse gases. With the continuous increase in international maritime trade, shipping emissions and their environmental and health impacts have attracted increased attention globally over the past decades. Ships emit air pollutants that contribute to adverse impacts on air quality, on the health of people living near ports and highly frequented shipping lanes and contribute to the eutrophication and acidification of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Air pollutants directly emitted by ships interact with other air pollutants, forming secondary pollutants including ozone and secondary aerosols contributing to these impacts. At the same time, greenhouse gas emissions stay on a high level, and efficiency gains are counteracted by increased transport volumes. The last decade has witnessed graduated strengthening of regulations on air pollutants from shipping and on marine fuel oil, recognizing this as a concern of global scale and stimulating shipping emission related research. This Special Issue of Atmosphere aims to promote scientific and technical communications in this field. Original results with respect to shipping emissions, air pollution modeling and its impacts, field and laboratory observations and review papers related to shipping emissions are all welcome contributions.
The topics of interest for the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
Emission inventories from ships and ports;
Monitoring techniques of shipping emissions;
Impacts of shipping emissions on air quality on scales from local to global;
Interactions of shipping emissions with other sector sources;
Comprehensive impacts of policies for shipping, particularly regarding low sulfur fuel oils, nitrogen oxides emission control and greenhouse gas reductions;
Impacts of shipping emissions on human health, marine and terrestrial ecosystems and climate change.
Dr. Yan Zhang
Dr. Volker Matthias
Dr. Huan Liu
Dr. Jana Moldanova
Dr. Nicolas Moussiopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- shipping emissions
- air quality
- aerosols
- trace elements
- emission inventory
- low sulfur fuel oil
- emission treatment
- human health
- climate change
- ecosystem effects