Atmospheric Deposition: New Insights into an Important Self-Cleaning Process in Atmosphere with Environmental Consequences
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 January 2024) | Viewed by 1339
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Interests: atmosphere; ambient air quality; atmospheric deposition; ground-level ozone; long-term trends and spatial patterns; air pollution assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric deposition is an important process contributing to the self-cleaning of the atmosphere and introducing not only nutrients but also pollutants into the ecosystems and environment. This indeed crucial process involves different mechanisms influenced by numerous factors, such as the capacity and spatial distribution of both natural and anthropogenic emission sources, meteorological processes, atmospheric chemistry, land use and ecosystems. It occurs via wet or dry pathways, the first one being an episodic process related to rain and snow events, whereas the latter one is a continuous direct transfer of gases and particles to the Earth´s surface. Occult deposition, related to fog and rime, is mostly neglected due to the lack of data, though it is known to contribute substantially to the total deposition fluxes in certain areas, such as mountain forests.
The infamous acid deposition, a result of the long-range transport of air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from highly polluted emission source areas, resulted in vast damages both in terrestrial and water ecosystems in the fairly clean Scandinavia as well as in the Northeastern US in the 1970s. Due to stringent emission reductions the acid deposition has substantially improved since in Europe and the US; however, it has become a challenge in other parts of the world, such as Southeast Asia, due to its fast growing population and related activities.
This Special Issue seeks manuscripts presenting new insights into both wet and dry deposition pathways and processes from different world regions and environments. We invite you to contribute articles by reporting on observation-based and modelling studies, related not only to wet and dry, but to occult deposition as well. Contributions elucidating the deposition of major ions and trace elements, both inorganic and organic species, are encouraged. Studies considering the role of on-going climate change in atmospheric deposition processes are gladly accepted. Both original research studies and review articles are welcome.
Dr. Iva Hůnová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wet deposition
- dry deposition
- occult deposition
- washout
- rainout
- gases
- particles
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