Urban Aerosols in Italy
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 183
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, the problem of air pollution in Italian cities is no longer a topic confined within academic studies. The public are aware that action is needed to reduce the impact on health and on climate change. The task of scientific research is to develop methods for more effective source apportionment research and to provide forecasting systems. These studies could help policies to reduce the consequences of the high anthropogenic pollutant impact. In many Italian regions, protocols for limiting atmospheric emissions are applied, acting on daily personal habits, on energy sources, and on the transport system. It is important to compare the experiences gained in many Italian cities and regions to obtain the most widespread and shared information. The high data production of the public monitoring network is not sufficient to understand the reality of urban pollution. Research must make refined interpretative tools available.
In this Special Issue, we expect to gather high-level studies that allow us to interpret the production, transformation, and impact of urban aerosol in the varied reality of Italian cities, in relation to the different weather and climatic realities and territorial peculiarities.
A further challenge is to identify future trends in urban pollution in the face of increasingly evident climate changes.
Dr. Formenton Gianni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- particulate matter
- biomass burning
- source apportionment
- back trajectory
- receptor oriented models
- chemical reactions
- precursor gases
- secondary aerosol
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