Atmospheric Composition Change - Global and Regional Air Quality
Journal article, 2009
Air quality transcends all scales with the atmosphere from the local to the global with handovers and feedbacks at each scale interaction. Air quality has manifold effects on health, ecosystems, heritage and climate. In this review the state of scientific understanding in relation to global and regional air quality is outlined. The review discusses air quality, in terms of emissions, processing and transport of trace gases and aerosols. New insights into the characterization of both natural and anthropogenic emissions are reviewed looking at both natural (e.g. dust and lightning) as well as plant emissions. Trends in anthropogenic emissions both by region and globally are discussed as well as biomass burning emissions. In terms of chemical processing the major air quality elements of ozone, non-methane hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and aerosols are covered. A number of topics are presented as a way of integrating the process view into the atmospheric context; these include the atmospheric oxidation efficiency, halogen and HOx chemistry, night-time chemistry, tropical chemistry, heat waves, megacities, biomass burning and the regional hot spot of the Mediterranean. New findings in respect of the transport of pollutants across the scales are discussed, in particular the move to quantify the impact of long-range transport on regional air quality. Gaps and research questions that remain intractable are identified, the review concludes with a focus of research and policy questions for the coming decade. In particular, the policy challenges for concerted air quality and climate change policy (co-benefit) are discussed.
Aerosols
Oxidation chemistry
Transport of pollutants
Emissions
Air quality
Co-benefit
Ozone
Climate
Atmosphere
Troposphere
Author
P.S. Monks
University Of Leicester
C. Granier
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC)
University of Colorado at Boulder
S. Fuzzi
Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche
A. Stohl
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
M. Williams
UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
H. Akimoto
Frontier Research Center for Global Change
M. Amann
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
A. Baklanov
Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)
U. Baltensperger
Paul Scherrer Institut
I. Bey
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
N. Blake
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
R.S. Blake
University Of Leicester
K. Carslaw
University of Leeds
O.R. Cooper
University of Colorado at Boulder
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
F. Dentener
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
D. Fowler
UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
E. Fragkou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
G. J. Frost
University of Colorado at Boulder
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
S. Generoso
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
P. Ginoux
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
V. Grewe
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
A. Guenther
National Center for Atmospheric Research
H.C. Hansson
Stockholm University
S. Henne
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)
J. Hjorth
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
A. Hofzumahaus
Forschungszentrum Jülich
H. Huntrieser
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
I.S.A. Isaksen
Cicero Senter for klimaforskning
University of Oslo
M.E. Jenkin
Atmospheric Chemistry Services
J. Kaiser
Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
M. Kanakidou
University of Crete
Z. Klimont
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
M. Kulmala
University of Helsinki
P. Laj
Grenoble Alpes University
Observatoire de Physique du Globe Clermont Ferrand (OPGC)
M.G. Lawrence
Max Planck Society
J.D. Lee
University of York
C. Liousse
Paul Sabatier University
M. Maione
University of Urbino
G. McFiggans
University of Manchester
A. Metzger
Ionicon Analytik GmbH
A. Mieville
Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC)
N. Moussiopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
J.J. Orlando
National Center for Atmospheric Research
C. O'Dowd
National University of Ireland
P.I. Palmer
University of Edinburgh
D. D. Parrish
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
A. Petzold
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
U. Platt
Heidelberg University
U. Poeschl
Max Planck Society
A.S.H. Prevot
Paul Scherrer Institut
C.E. Reeves
Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
S. Reimann
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)
Y. Rudich
Weizmann Institute of Science
K. Sellegri
Observatoire de Physique du Globe Clermont Ferrand (OPGC)
R. Steinbrecher
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
David Simpson
Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling
H. ten Brink
Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
J. Theloke
University of Stuttgart
G.R. van der Werf
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
R. Vautard
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
V. Vestreng
Norwegian State Pollution Control Authority
Ch. Vlachokostas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
R. von Glasow
Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Environment
1352-2310 (ISSN) 1873-2844 (eISSN)
Vol. 43 33 5268-5350Subject Categories
Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Environmental Sciences
DOI
10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.08.021