Dear Colleagues,

Human activities have had significant impacts on the global environment. Rapid economic growth, industrialization, urbanization, and extensive transportation networks have resulted in a substantial deterioration of air quality all over the world. Clean air is an essential requirement for the healthy existence of humans. In view of the health implications of air pollution and the regulations on air quality enacted by various countries and international organizations, it has become important to monitor ambient air quality in order to devise ameliorative strategies to tackle the problem of air pollution. Conventionally, monitoring the ambient air quality at different locations has depended on the information from ground-based observations. However, a major constraint with ground-based observations is that they are location-specific and do not give much information about the spatial distribution of the pollutant being monitored. The emergence of satellite-based methods of monitoring air pollutant levels in the atmosphere during recent decades has been of definite advantage in capturing spatio-temporal air quality trends. The use of satellite remote sensing to map air pollutants along with climatology will improve our understanding of the emission sources and air pollution–climate interaction.

This Special Issue will provide a greater understanding of the distributions and trends in air pollutants, helping us to use models to better understand air pollution problems from scales ranging from urban to regional and global. Further, it will help us to provide a guideline for better air-pollution control policies to improve the health of human beings, as well as that of the Earth’s environment.

This research topic calls for papers that can improve our understanding of the characteristics of air pollution using satellite remote sensing and modelling. Potential research topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Impacts of meteorological parameters on air pollution;
• Trends and mechanisms of tropospheric ozone over different atmospheric layers;
• Regional air quality and climate studies using satellite data;
• Vertical distribution of aerosol and black carbon;
• Effect of extreme weather on air quality;
• Characteristics of dust transport;
• Urbanization and air pollution climatology;
• Urban photochemical pollution;
• Air pollution impacts on human and environmental health.

Dr. Xuewei Hou
Prof. Dr. Bin Zhu
Dr. Kanike Raghavendra Kumar
Dr. Alok Pandey
Dr. Kainan Zhang
Guest Editors

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• air pollution
• satellite remote sensing
• atmospheric chemistry
• aerosols
• urban climate
• extreme weather
• air quality and health
• climate change
• air pollution and climate policies