Impacts of Biomass Burning Smoke on Air Quality and Radiative Forcing and Climate
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 August 2020) | Viewed by 8762
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite researchers to contribute original research articles and review articles dealing with all aspects of the impact of biomass-burning smoke on air quality and radiative forcing and climate. We are interested in recent laboratory, field, remote sensing, and modeling work to understand and quantify the impacts of biomass-burning on local and global air quality and radiative forcing and climate. We are also interested in reviews that identify possible future lines of investigations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Speciated smoke emissions and chemistry (e.g., O3 and secondary organic aerosol formation) from recent laboratory and field campaigns;
- Addressing the differences in smoke aging and SOA formation seen in laboratory (e.g., smog chamber or oxidation flow reactor) and field studies;
- Atmospheric chemistry and air quality in urban areas when biomass-burning smoke mixes with anthropogenic emissions;
- Impact of biomass-burning smoke on indoor air quality;
- Direct, semi-direct, and indirect effects of biomass-burning aerosols on radiative forcing and climate at regional and global scales, including after deposition on high albedo surfaces (e.g., snow and ice);
- Identifying and quantifying the impacts of biomass-burning smoke using satellite-, aircraft-, UAS-, and ground-based remote sensing;
- Application of statistical approaches and machine learning to quantify biomass-burning impacts and develop empirical models;
- Modeling studies that bridge the gap between laboratory, plume-scale, and urban-, regional-, and global scale studies;
- Smoke chemistry model inter-comparisons, especially those comparing physical and statistical models; and
- Estimates of the human health and economic impacts of biomass-burning smoke.
Dr. Hans Moosmüller
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Biomass-burning smoke emissions and chemistry
- Radiative forcing and climate impacts of biomass burning
- Air quality impacts of biomass burning
- Laboratory and field studies of biomass-burning smoke
- Remote sensing of smoke
- Multi-scale air quality modeling
- Statistical modeling and machine learning
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