Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollution

Dear colleagues,

Continuous increases in human population and human activities have resulted in remarkable changes in the compositions of the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. Climate change and air pollution are two major consequences of such changes. The scientific understanding of these two issues requires a variety of observations of the atmosphere in different platforms. Among them, satellite remote sensing has added a new dimension to these observations because of its advantages in global coverage, frequent revisit time, and consistently improved quality in recent decades. Particularly, remote sensing of greenhouse gases has already illustrated promising applications related to climate change studies. Remote sensing data are being more and more widely used in the monitoring of air pollution, which helps to identify variations of air pollutants in space and time and untangle the underlying mechanisms responsible for these variations. This Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollution” invites contributions on recent advances in remote sensing of greenhouse gases (i.e., CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, H₂O, and tropospheric O₃), polluted gases and particular matters (i.e., tropospheric O₃, CO, SO₂, NO₂, and aerosols), as well as the applications of these remote sensing data for climate change and air pollution studies.

Dr. Jane Liu
Dr. Liangfu Chen
Dr. Weimin Ju
Dr. Xiaozhen Xiong
Prof. Fred Moshary
Guest Editors

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