Observation and Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 882
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aerosol; atmospheric pollution; microphysical properties; chemical properties; optical properties; aerosol mixing state; aerosol ageing; aerosol in situ measurements; aerosol remote sensing; analytical microscopy; aerosol single-particle analysis; aerosol chemical composition; elemental composition of aerosol; aerosol typing; modeling of aerosol optical properties; aerosol sampling techniques; aerosol sources and apportionment; long-range transport of aerosols
Interests: remote sensing techniques for environmental monitoring; long-range transport of aerosols; pollution; environmental engineering; atmospheric pollution; analytical microscopy; nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy; optical atmosphere; spectroscopy and lasers; physics
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Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric aerosol microphysical, microchemical, and optical properties are the core characteristics for understanding their role in assessing air pollution, radiative forcing, and health impacts. Improved aerosol observations and characterization are currently achieved by long-term monitoring and measurement campaigns, using in situ, remote sensing from ground-based methods and satellites, as well as laboratory off-line analysis techniques. Monitoring of aerosols and their properties is carried out at fixed locations via air quality and research networks, through mobile measurements with transportable stations, and via measurements during movement involving instrumentation boarding vehicles, scientific flights with UAVs as well as manned aircraft, and research vessels.
For this purpose, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue with a focus on observations and properties of atmospheric aerosol, involving topics for characterizing atmospheric aerosol properties, such as size, shape, mixing state, chemical composition, and optical properties, and their source and ageing mechanisms during transport, achieved by observations during long-term and measurement campaigns, via fixed or mobile measurements.
The following areas are of interest, but are not limited to them:
- Observations and properties of atmospheric aerosol via long-term monitoring and campaign measurements;
- Aerosol microphysical properties, chemical composition, aerosol typing, and source apportionment;
- On-line measurements and off-line aerosol single-particle or bulk chemical analysis;
- Aerosol morphology (size, shape, and mixing state), ageing, and effects on optical properties, radiative forcing, climate models, and human health;
- In situ, remote sensing, and off-line laboratory analyses of aerosol properties, as well as their synergy and the intercomparison of methods;
- Air quality monitoring and air pollution studies via fixed or mobile stations;
- Chamber studies of aerosol properties;
- Applications of effective-cost sensors for observations of atmospheric aerosol properties;
- Machine learning techniques for atmospheric aerosol property classification and typing.
We are eager to receive your submission articles for this new Special Issue.
Dr. Florin Unga
Dr. Marius M. Cazacu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- atmospheric aerosol and air pollution
- microphysical properties
- chemical composition
- optical properties
- aerosol typing and source apportionment
- mixing state
- long-term measurements
- campaign measurements
- mobile measurements
- machine learning
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