Formation and Ageing of Carbonaceous Aerosol in the Atmosphere
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2023) | Viewed by 303
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical reaction kinetics; atmospheric chemistry; formation and ageing of ambient aerosol; air quality; plant and insect communication
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hyphenated mass spectrometry in relation to the analysis of organic molecules; chemistry of atmospheric aerosol, including mechanisms of their formation and transformation; organic synthesis
Interests: atmospheric analytical chemistry; particulate matter (PM); source apportionment; atmospheric pollution; mass spectrometry; aerosol science; air quality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ambient aerosol is hundreds of teragrams of particulate matter suspended in the atmosphere. A significant part of it is a carbonaceous aerosol, which forms from gas-phase chemical reactions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with common atmospheric oxidants, such as OH, NO3, Cl, and SO4- radicals and ozone. These reactions, and others, also occur within the particle phase to form new products, including high molecular weight species. Although significant progress has been made over the past two decades in improving our understanding of the atmospheric chemistry controlling the formation and transformation of carbonaceous aerosol, substantial uncertainties remain. A deep understanding of chemical reactions and processes that generate aerosol components is essential to understand the altered particle properties and their influence on atmospheric processes, climate, and wellbeing of living organisms, including humans.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions related to the oxidation of atmospheric components that result in the formation or aging of aerosol particles. The topics include, but are not limited to:
- Laboratory and computational studies of chemical reactions that form new or alter existing organic components of aerosol particles, including theoretical works, reaction products, mechanisms, and kinetics;
- Aqueous-phase reactions of radicals with aerosol components;
- Chemical reactions at aerosol surfaces, solid or liquid;
- Smog-chamber studies unveiling formation or aging of aerosol particles;
- Chemical analysis of ambient and laboratory-generated aerosol particles for markers of aerosol origins;
- Health implications of radical reactions with organic aerosol components.
Dr. Krzysztof J. Rudziński
Dr. Rafał Szmigielski
Dr. Mohammed Jaoui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aerosol aging
- aerosol markers
- aqueous aerosol
- health implications
- surface reactions
