Pollen Monitoring and Health Risks
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 491
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pollen monitoring provides relevant health data. In the light of rising allergy rates, pollen monitoring is becoming important to an increasing number of people. However, pollen monitoring is not implemented in the same way and frequency across the globe; therefore, pollen measurement technology requires improvement. This Special Issue aims to reflect developments of pollen monitoring devices and present health-relevant pollen datasets and their importance for human health.
Pollen monitoring is essential for assessing health risks of pollen allergies in asthmatic patients. Therefore, we invite the submission of studies discussing developments in the field of pollen forecasts (based on the pollen monitoring process).
The following are topics of interest for this Special Issue:
- From old to new: ranging from classic volumetric pollen traps to automated pollen monitoring techniques, which use image recognition or pollen spectra via laser detection.
- From recent to historic: ranging from current data to last-year and decade-long datasets.
- From local to nationwide: ranging from single-station results to whole-network results.
- From observational to clinical: ranging from results that will have an impact on pollen allergies to relevant medical data.
- From near to far: any place across the globe where pollen monitoring is performed.
Studies exploring all aspects of pollen monitoring and health risks are welcome for submission.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Katharina Bastl
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pollen monitoring
- pollen data
- pollen measurements
- health
- exposure risk
- pollen allergy
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