Special Issue "Evaluation of Anthropogenic Emissions into the Atmosphere: Regional Scale Approach, Trends, and Large-Scale Mitigation"

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 April 2023 | Viewed by 1752

Special Issue Editor

Yu.A.Izrael Institute of Global Climate & Ecology /Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Interests: regional and global atmospheric pollution; atmospheric chemistry; evaluation of anthropogenic emissions into the atmosphere; long-range transport of air pollutants; geoengineering for climate

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Atmospheric emissions (AE) are the one of the evident anthropogenic factors having an effect on the quality of air and pollution of other environmental media. Due to their rapid growth as the side effect of industrial and social development as well as higher transfer and dispersion capacity through the atmosphere, AE pollute the air in a multiscale manner, from locally to regionally or even globally. In recent decades, the regional scale evaluation of emissions has become increasingly necessary for further application in research on long-range transport of pollutants, for the study of changing, large-scale biogeochemical cycles, for the assessment of the effects on life quality for humans, as well as for their role in sub-continental climate changes, etc.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide original results on a number of topics related to regional aspects of anthropogenic emissions over the continents, including various air pollutants, temporal variability and tendencies, relationship with changes in industrial development, and implementation of mitigation policies and measures.

The scope of the Special Issue may include (but is not limited to) research on AE estimation with top-bottom approaches and/or industry-type oriented investigation, AE trends in regions and their reflection in air quality dynamics, and potential and observed effects of regional or national mitigation programs and policy.

Dr. Sergey Gromov
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • regional-scale atmospheric emissions
  • regional air pollution
  • air quality trends
  • mitigation programs and their effectiveness
  • industrial pollutant emission tendencies
  • historical emission change records
  • regional emissions and long-range transport
  • integrated indexes of regional anthropogenic impact

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The Potential of Green Development and PM2.5 Emission Reduction for China’s Cement Industry
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Atmosphere 2023, 14(3), 482; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14030482 - 28 Feb 2023
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The atmospheric dust caused by the cement industry is one of the main components of air pollutants. China is the largest producer and consumer of cement. It is challenging to balance cement needs and environmental protection. Based on the emission source data, this [...] Read more.
The atmospheric dust caused by the cement industry is one of the main components of air pollutants. China is the largest producer and consumer of cement. It is challenging to balance cement needs and environmental protection. Based on the emission source data, this study examined the spatial and temporal patterns of PM2.5 by the cement industry’s contribution (PM2.5Cement). The annual value of PM2.5Cement decreased from 1.40 × 106 µg/m3 in 2010 to 0.98 × 106 µg/m3 in 2017, which was reduced by 30.31%. I used the standard deviation ellipse and gravity center transfer method and identified that the cement industry center shifted from the east to the midwest of China, where a high-density population exists and a large portion of the population is exposed to the air pollution. The geographical detector method was used to analyze the contribution of the natural environment, green development, and socioeconomic development to PM2.5Cement. The main driving factors were identified as the socioeconomic development and the traffic conditions in 2010, which was giving way to the regional independent innovation in 2017. The cement industry’s contributions to atmospheric PM2.5 vary spatially, suggesting that green development and optimized location for the cement industry are crucial to reducing the size of the population exposed to the pollutants. Full article
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Impact of PM2.5 and PM10 Emissions on Changes of Their Concentration Levels in Lithuania: A Case Study
Atmosphere 2022, 13(11), 1793; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13111793 - 29 Oct 2022
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Due to negative effects on human health and visibility, atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is a prioritized contaminant for urban air pollution management. Over the past few decades, managing emissions have been a top priority. This paper investigated PM national inventory data and mass [...] Read more.
Due to negative effects on human health and visibility, atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is a prioritized contaminant for urban air pollution management. Over the past few decades, managing emissions have been a top priority. This paper investigated PM national inventory data and mass concentration trends for Lithuania. This analysis considers primary (sum of filterable and condensable) PM2.5 and PM10 emissions from point, mobile on-road and off-road, industry, agriculture, and waste sectors. In this study, by examining both the emissions and the mass concentrations of PM10, the effects of emissions decreasing with a concentration decrease were revealed. The slower decreasing tendency of PM10 and BC (0.03 Gg/year) than that of PM2.5 (0.1 Gg/year) should be noted. Furthermore, the correlation analysis also finds that the increase in PM10 from stationary and mobile combustion sources is closely related to the increase in the contribution to the pollution level. Full article
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