About this Research Topic
An adequate understanding and improved representation of these complex interactions is crucial for both climate change mitigation and air pollution control. This Research Topic aims to cover all theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that present new knowledge of aerosols and aerosol-climate interactions on regional scale.
Areas to be covered in this research topic may include, but are not limited to:
- Sources and formation mechanisms of aerosols, including inorganic and organic aerosols
- Aerosol physical and chemical processes that affect climate, including new particle formation and growth, cloud condensation and ice nucleation activities, multiphase chemistry, etc.
- Interactions among aerosols, radiation, clouds (including liquid, mixed-phase, and ice clouds) and precipitation
- Roles of these interactions in boundary layer dynamics, weather and climate change, and haze pollution
- Influence of meteorology and climate change on aerosols and air quality.
This Research Topic presents selected original research articles from a session entitled “Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Interactions with Clouds, Radiation, and Climate on Regional Scales” from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held during December 1-17, 2020. The Research Topic will also be open to everyone to submit to, as long as the article is in scope.
Keywords: atmospheric aerosols, air pollution, aerosol-radiation-clouds-precipitation interactions, meteorology, climate change
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