Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Emissions: Monitoring and Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather papers focusing on recent advancements in the field of volatile organic compound (VOC) measurements, modeling, and their impact on air quality, climate, and atmospheric chemistry. VOCs play an important role in tropospheric ozone (O₃) and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation. Tropospheric O₃ can be harmful as it has an impact on air quality due to its ability to form photochemical smog and has a direct health impact as a pulmonary irritant. In addition to this, O₃ enters leaves through plant stomata during normal gas exchange in the daylight hours and impairs plant metabolism and damages crops. On the other hand, SOA has a direct climate impact through the radiative forcing of the atmosphere and contributes to the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation. Therefore, it is extremely important to quantify VOCs in different atmospheric environments and from various emission sources. Monitoring and assessment of VOCs is, therefore, becoming exceedingly important for air pollution mitigation strategies.

Topics of interest for this Special issue will include but are not limited to:

• Atmospheric chemistry of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
• Analytical techniques for atmospheric measurements
• Laboratory and field experiments
• Eddy covariance flux measurements
• Biosphere–atmosphere interactions
• Atmospheric models and satellite remote
• Health impact of VOCs

Dr. Chinmoy Sarkar
Dr. Roger Seco
Guest Editors

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