Human-Generated Aerosols (HGA) in a Partially Ventilated Environment
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2021) | Viewed by 6575
Special Issue Editor
2. Environmental Science division, Israel Institute for Biological Research, 24 Lerer St., Ness Ziona 74100, Israel
Interests: environmental sensing; algorithm development; multiobjective optimization; optical spectroscopy; machine and deep learning; precision agriculture; source-term estimation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has had—and continues to have—a devastating effect on human health. Humans must adjust their behavior to minimize the risk of infection, especially in a highly vulnerable population.
Such adjustments restrict human interactions (“social distancing”), resulting in adverse effects on both the economy and society; hence, effective long-term enforcement is challenging. Increasing population compliance can only be achieved by adopting an evidence-based policy regarding the generation and transport of the HGA in the atmosphere.
This Special Issue is focused on sensing of HGA in various environments as the basis for developing models to account for their generation, fate, and transport through the atmosphere. Of special interest are partially ventilated areas such as streets and yards, which are used these days as alternative locations for human gathering and social activities.
We will welcome papers dealing with the research and development of sensor technology or improving their performance using sophisticated data fusion and machine and deep learning approaches for:
(a) Source and aerosol characterization;
(b) Transport through partially ventilated areas;
(c) HGA fate in the atmosphere;
(d) Using sensor data to model HGA transport through the atmosphere.
Prof. Dr. Shai Kendler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sensing
- COVID-19
- Human-generated aerosol
- Mass transport modeling
- Data fusion
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
