Atmospheric Aerosol Properties: Formation, Processes and Impacts

ISBN-13: 9783642065774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 572 str.

Kirill YA Kondratyev; Lev S. Ivlev; Vladimir F. Krapivin

Opis

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how aerosols form in the atmosphere through in situ processes as well as via transport from the surface (dust storms, seas spray, biogenic emissions, forest fires etc.). Such an analysis has been followed by the consideration of both observation data (various field observational experiments) and numerical modeling results to assess climate impacts of aerosols bearing in mind that these impacts are the most significant uncertainty in studying natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction, Part I Field Observational Experiments; -1. Atmospheric Aerosols field exepriment prgaramme. A history of studies;- 2. Field observational experiments in America and Western Europe;- 3. Field observational experiments in Eurasia and Africa;- Part II Formation Processes and Evolution of Aerosol. Cloud Cover;- 4. Processes of aerosol formation (nucleation);- 5. Aersol and chemical processes in the atmosphere;- 6. Interactions between aerosols and clouds;- Part III Numerical Modelling of Aersol Properties and Processes;- 7. Optical properties of aerosols and clouds; 8. Aerosol long-range transport and deposition;- 9. Climatic impacts of atmospheric aerosols.

Blurb

An increasing interest in studies of atmospheric aerosols in the context of their impact on the formation of climate, heterogeneous chemical reactions in the atmosphere affecting in particular the environmental quality, problems of visibility and human health is the cause of unusual scales of developments connected with studies of atmospheric aerosols. The necessity has arisen to analyze the latest results concerning, first of all, three aspects of the problems considered: 1. aerosol properties from data of complex field observational experiment; 2. processes of aerosol formation and interaction of aerosol with clouds, 3. aerosol as a climate-forming atmospheric component (including the problem of long-range transport). The monograph in hand is dedicated mainly to the problems of the impact of aerosol on climate processes in the atmosphere, from microphysical processes of formation and evolution of aerosol properties to the formation of macro-scale cloud sytems on aerosol particles.