Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective

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ISSI Scientific Report Series 16

ISBN:	3319866346
ISBN 13:	9783319866345
Herausgeber:	Idir Bouarar/Xuemei Wang/Guy P Brasseur
Verlag:	Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang:	xi, 504 S., 28 s/w Illustr., 183 farbige Illustr., 504 p. 211 illus., 183 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.05.2018
Auflage:	1/2018
Produktform:	Kartoniert
Einband:	Kartoniert

This book, written by an international group of experts from China, Europe and the USA, presents a broad and comprehensive analysis of the chemical and meteorological processes responsible for the formation of air pollutants in eastern Asia, and in particular for the development of severe pollution episodes observed primarily during winter in the northeastern part of China. With the rapid population growth, economic development and urbanization occurring in Asia, air pollution has become a major environmental problem in this part of the world. The book is organized around six distinct parts. The first part of the volume offers a general perspective on issues related to air pollution including persistent haze events in eastern and southern Asia. The second part presents an overview of air pollution sources (i.e., anthropogenic and biomass burning sources). The third part analyzes in-situ observations of chemical species in China, while the fourth part focuses on space observations of gas-phase and aerosol species. The modeling aspects are treated in the fifth part of the volume, which includes a presentation of several air quality forecast systems and an assessment of the role of urbanization on air pollution levels. Finally, the effects of air pollution on health and crop productivity in China are discussed in the last part of the book. The book also presents an integrated view of past and present situations in Asia and provides the scientific basis from which mitigation policies can be established and air quality can be improved. Audience: This book is written for scientists, educators, students, environmental managers, policy-makers and leaders in public administration and private corporations who wish to use science-based information to mitigate air pollution. The book should help decision-makers to design effective policies for air quality improvement and to successfully manage short-term air pollution episodes that substantially affect people’s quality of life and strongly impact the economy.

Artikelnummer: 6775324 Kategorie: Geowissenschaften

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

Includes fundamental information for policy-makers, environmental managers and other practitionersDiscusses application of concepts related to atmospheric chemistry and meteorology to real air pollution situationsPresents the use of satellite information together with surface measurements and models to address air pollution eventsPresents guidelines for future actions to mitigate air pollution

Autorenporträt

Idir Bouarar is a scientist at the Environmental Modeling Group of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany. His research activities are devoted to atmospheric sciences, modeling of air pollution at the global and regional scales and development of state-of-the-art air quality prediction systems. Guy P. Brasseur is the Leader of Environmental Modeling Group at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and a Distinguished Scholar at the National center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. His scientific interests include atmospheric sciences and air quality, climate change, and science-policy interactions.