Air Quality

Science, Impacts, and Management

Buch | Softcover

596 Seiten

2024
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-822591-2 (ISBN)

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Air Quality: Science, Impacts, and Management provides a thorough treatment of the fundamental science of air quality, its interactions, its impacts on health and the environment and management strategies for reducing air pollution in cities, regionally and globally. It begins with fundamentals of the atmosphere and its relevance for air quality before moving logically to sources and emissions, chemical transformation, dynamics, prediction, observations and analysis methods. The importance of regional air pollution and interactions with climate demonstrate the multiscale nature of air quality. The book concludes by examining the impacts on ecosystems and health, reviewing the strategies to manage air pollution and highlighting real-world challenges and possible solutions to improve air quality in global cities. The chapters, written by Ranjeet Sokhi with the collaboration of international experts in the field, are designed to be read sequentially or independently for focused learning in this complex and interdisciplinary field. Air Quality: Science, Impacts, and Management is an excellent resource for students, researchers and professionals in the field of Air Quality and related sciences.

Professor Ranjeet Sokhi's research focusses on the dynamics and composition of the atmosphere with emphasis on physical and chemical processes affecting air quality and interactions with climate. He has been an advisor for the UK Governments' Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK's Public Health England (PHE) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He has been the chair of the WMOs' projects on urban science (GURME) and air quality prediction for Africa (PREFIA) for several years. He has coordinated or played a leading role in many research projects and networks funded by UKRI, European Commission and Industry as well as being a principal investigator (PI) for the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). For over two decades, Professor Sokhi was the chair of the series of International Conferences on Air Quality – Science and Application. He has published his research findings widely and has nearly 200 publications including scientific articles in major international journals and co-authored and edited several major reports and books. Currently, Professor Sokhi is the Director of the Centre for Climate Change Research (C3R) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK and a co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project FOCI on non-CO2 radiative forcers and their impacts on climate and air quality.

1. Introduction – why does air quality matter?
2. State and structure of the Atmosphere
3. Sources and emissions of air pollution
4. Chemistry of the Atmosphere
5. Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere
6. Atmospheric dynamics and weather
7. Physics of the planetary boundary layer
8. Theory of atmospheric pollution dispersion
9. Complex approaches to predict air quality and applications
10. Observations, monitoring and analysis of air quality
11. Regional and global air quality
12. Air quality trends in our cities
13. Future air quality and climate interactions
14. Indoor air quality
15. Quantitative data analysis methods with examples
16. Air quality management and policy applications
17. Air quality and health impacts
18. Air quality and the environmental impacts
19. Future challenges

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-12-822591-2 / 0128225912
ISBN-13	978-0-12-822591-2 / 9780128225912
Zustand	Neuware