Agriculture and Air Quality
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2023) | Viewed by 1929
Special Issue Editor
Interests: analytical chemistry method development; source characterization of particulate matter; atmospheric chemistry of air emissions; mitigation of atmospheric emissions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural activities from animal production and crop production are becoming increasingly scrutinized due to their impacts on the atmosphere. Agricultural contributions to air quality issues include greenhouse gases (methane and nitrous oxide), odor compounds (several classes of volatile organic compounds), the primary production of particulate matter from tillage and harvesting, dust and bioaerosols from animal housing, combustion aerosols from controlled burns, and precursor emissions, which can lead to secondary atmospheric chemistry and regional deposition effects (i.e., ammonia, amines, sulfur compounds, and nitric oxide). There has been some progress in the characterization of emissions from agricultural sources, yet significant uncertainties remain for many compounds. Emission inventories and models are in many ways incomplete at local, national, and international levels, making it difficult to test mitigation strategies in a comprehensive way. Even so, some newer approaches to manure management, such as anaerobic digesters or the wider conversion of waste to biochar, show promise for reducing agricultural emissions and returning at least some of them to the circular economy. Other mitigation strategies such as atmospheric scrubbers have shown technological feasibility, but still struggle to be economically viable. This Special Issue welcomes papers that focus on all aspects of the interaction between agriculture and the atmosphere. Measurement- and modeling-oriented papers that examine emissions from agricultural sources, the factors governing the emission process, mitigation methods, and economic feasibility, are encouraged.
Dr. Philip J. Silva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- greenhouse gases
- ammonia
- amines
- hydrogen sulfide
- volatile organic compounds
- particulate matter
- odor
- nitrogen
- sulfur
- pesticides
- measurements
- mitigation
- dispersion modeling
- sustainable agriculture
- circular economy
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