Comprehensive Modeling of Air Pollution and Its Weather Effects
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Pollution Control".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 1601
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air quality modeling; aerosol–climate interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution, originating from anthropogenic activities, such as fossil fuel combustion and natural emissions such as wildfire and wind-blowing dust, has profound impacts on human health and multi-scale weather patterns. Particles suspended in a polluted atmosphere strongly absorb or scatter sunlight, depending on particle composition and their optical properties, and ultimately warm or cool the atmosphere. Those particles with diameters larger than 50 nm can activate into cloud droplets under supersaturated air conditions and significantly modify the evolution of convective clouds and stratiform clouds and their capability to reflect shortwave and longwave radiation and form precipitation. The energy imbalance induced by both aerosol–radiation interactions and aerosol–cloud interactions leads to changes in the local or even regional circulation and boundary layer structure, which can, in turn, affect the dilution of air pollution. Understanding the extent to which air pollution affects meteorological parameters is vital for weather and air quality prediction. Numerical models that couple atmospheric chemistry and weather are a powerful tool to probe into this issue. However, more effort is still needed to improve the model skills in representing the air pollution–weather interactions in conjunction with a wide range of atmospheric observations. This Special Issue aims to publish new research on the modeling of air pollution and its weather effect over local, regional or hemispherical scales. We welcome papers on air pollution modeling, the boundary layer and precipitation modulated by particulate matters and ozone, aerosol–cloud–weather interactions, aerosol effects on tropical storms or typhoons, and the development of new modules or the parameterizations of relevant chemical and microphysical processes.
Dr. Mingxu Liu
Dr. Ruichen Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution modeling
- aerosol–radiation interactions
- aerosol–cloud interactions
- ozone–meteorology feedback
- precipitation modulated by air pollution
- boundary layer development
- monsoon
- tropical cyclone
