The troposphere is a layer of the atmosphere closest to the earth’s surface, which concentrates about 75% of the mass concentration of the atmosphere and more than 90% of the mass concentration of water vapor. In the troposphere, atmospheric physical processes interact with the atmospheric environment and have atmospheric effects on human health.
Physical processes at multiple scales in the atmosphere, such as atmospheric boundary layer, local circulation, and monsoon, determine the accumulation, diffusion, deposition, and regional transport of atmospheric pollution. Studies have shown that weather and climate change play a vital role in the frequent occurrence of severe air haze pollution in China. Under the influence of adverse weather processes, air pollutants will accumulate in a short time to form high-concentration pollution, and they will be transported to each other on a regional scale. In addition, there is a complex interaction between atmospheric pollution and changes in weather processes under the effect of climate change.
The international atmospheric environment community has been committed to revealing the determination of atmospheric physical and chemical processes on the concentration of atmospheric chemical components and, on this basis, to study the impact of changes of global atmospheric chemical components on climate, human health, and ecosystems. The current studies on atmospheric environmental chemistry, at the level of basic science, is to reveal how the concentrations of multiple components in the atmosphere are changed by various atmospheric processes, such as chemistry, microphysics, transport, and deposition after anthropogenic and naturally released substances enter the atmosphere and then identify the effects of changes in chemical composition on climate, human health, and ecosystems. Under the guidance of sustainable development, pollutants emitted by humans into the atmosphere can be reduced through energy use, transportation, urbanization, land use, agriculture, etc., thereby curbing air pollution and its impacts on climate change, human health, and ecosystems.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Interaction mechanisms between atmospheric physical processes and atmospheric pollutants
• Interaction mechanisms between atmospheric physical processes and transport, chemical transformation
• Removal of atmospheric pollutants
• Interaction of air pollutants with clouds and radiation
• Relationships between atmospheric composite pollution and climate change
• Sources and formation mechanisms of air pollution (e.g., how pollutants are transformed or removed through transport, chemical reactions and photolysis, and the rates of formation and conversion of air pollutants via atmospheric reactions)
• Air pollution physical and chemical processes that affect climate and ecosystem, including aerosol pollution, biomass burning, dust, ozone, and multiphase chemistry
• Effects of air quality and biometeorological conditions on human health
The troposphere is a layer of the atmosphere closest to the earth’s surface, which concentrates about 75% of the mass concentration of the atmosphere and more than 90% of the mass concentration of water vapor. In the troposphere, atmospheric physical processes interact with the atmospheric environment and have atmospheric effects on human health.
Physical processes at multiple scales in the atmosphere, such as atmospheric boundary layer, local circulation, and monsoon, determine the accumulation, diffusion, deposition, and regional transport of atmospheric pollution. Studies have shown that weather and climate change play a vital role in the frequent occurrence of severe air haze pollution in China. Under the influence of adverse weather processes, air pollutants will accumulate in a short time to form high-concentration pollution, and they will be transported to each other on a regional scale. In addition, there is a complex interaction between atmospheric pollution and changes in weather processes under the effect of climate change.
The international atmospheric environment community has been committed to revealing the determination of atmospheric physical and chemical processes on the concentration of atmospheric chemical components and, on this basis, to study the impact of changes of global atmospheric chemical components on climate, human health, and ecosystems. The current studies on atmospheric environmental chemistry, at the level of basic science, is to reveal how the concentrations of multiple components in the atmosphere are changed by various atmospheric processes, such as chemistry, microphysics, transport, and deposition after anthropogenic and naturally released substances enter the atmosphere and then identify the effects of changes in chemical composition on climate, human health, and ecosystems. Under the guidance of sustainable development, pollutants emitted by humans into the atmosphere can be reduced through energy use, transportation, urbanization, land use, agriculture, etc., thereby curbing air pollution and its impacts on climate change, human health, and ecosystems.
Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Interaction mechanisms between atmospheric physical processes and atmospheric pollutants
• Interaction mechanisms between atmospheric physical processes and transport, chemical transformation
• Removal of atmospheric pollutants
• Interaction of air pollutants with clouds and radiation
• Relationships between atmospheric composite pollution and climate change
• Sources and formation mechanisms of air pollution (e.g., how pollutants are transformed or removed through transport, chemical reactions and photolysis, and the rates of formation and conversion of air pollutants via atmospheric reactions)
• Air pollution physical and chemical processes that affect climate and ecosystem, including aerosol pollution, biomass burning, dust, ozone, and multiphase chemistry
• Effects of air quality and biometeorological conditions on human health
