Overview
- Provides an extensive review of past and recent literature on the atmospheric chemistry
- Examines the sources and fates of atmospheric pollutants over the Mediterranean basin
- Addresses the main impacts and considers the full cycle of aerosols and reactive gases
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Part III
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About this book
This two-volume set provides an extensive review of the abundant past and recent literature on the atmospheric chemistry in the Mediterranean region. ÂThe books document the experience gained on the atmospheric composition over the Mediterranean basin and close areas after almost six decades of studies, starting from early studies of radioactive aerosol fallouts and intense desert dust events in the 1960s, aerosol samples collected during oceanographic cruises in the early 1980s and including discoveries from subsequent surface monitoring stations, intensive campaigns, satellite climatologies, laboratory studies, as well as chemistry-transport and climate models. Through ten thematic sections, the authors examine the sources and fates of atmospheric pollutants over the Mediterranean basin and what we know about their major impacts on air quality and health, on the radiative budget and climate, on marine chemistryand biogeochemistry.  This overview not only considers the full cycle of both aerosol and reactive gases including emissions, transport, transformation, and sinks, but also addresses the main impacts of the regional atmospheric chemistry. The volumes are an initiative from the ending ChArMEx project that has federated many studies on those topics in the past decade, and update the scientific knowledge by integrating the ChArMEx and non-ChArMEx literature. The books are contributed by a large pool of well-known authors from the respective fields, mainly from France and Greece, but also from fourteen other countries. All chapters have been peer-reviewed by international scientific experts in the corresponding domains.
Volume 1 provides background information on the Mediterranean atmosphere, and focuses on the synoptic and dynamic conditions affecting pollutant concentrations over the Mediterranean basin,aerosol concentrations and variability, and reactive gas concentrations and variability. Â The targeted audience is the academic community working on atmospheric chemistry and its impacts on climate, air quality and marine biogeochemistry, especially teams having a special interest in the Mediterranean region, which includes many countries and institutes worldwide.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Stéphane Sauvage is Associate Professor at the Atmospheric Sciences and Environmental Engineering research unit of IMT Lille Douai. IMT Lille Douai is part of the Institute Mines-Telecom (IMT), the largest national higher education engineering consortium in France : IMT sign up nearly 14,000 engineering students annually (5-year program), MSc-level, engineering degree programmes in addition to 1,650 PhD students (3-year doctoral programmes) under the supervision of a permanent, full-time, internationally recognised academic and research staff. His work encompasses a long experience in developing and implementing methods for reactive trace gas measurements. His research activities mainly focus on air quality and atmospheric reactivity of gaseous compounds in order to better understand the impacts of human activities on the atmospheric composition in a context of climate change.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atmospheric Chemistry in the Mediterranean Region
Book Subtitle: Volume 1 - Background Information and Pollutant Distribution
Editors: François Dulac, Stéphane Sauvage, Eric Hamonou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12741-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12740-3Published: 23 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12743-4Due: 23 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12741-0Published: 22 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LIV, 583
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, general, Earth System Sciences, Environment, general