Atmospheric Aerosol Properties Formation, Processes and Impacts /

• Main Authors: Kondratyev, Kirill Ya (Author), Ivlev, Lev S. (Author), Krapivin, Vladimir F. (Author), Varotsos, Costas A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Remote sensing.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

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 develo...

Table of Contents:

• The field observational experiments
• Programmes of atmospheric aerosol experiments: The history of studies
• Field observational experiments in America and western Europe
• Field observational experiments in Eurasia and on the African continent
• Aerosol formation processes and evolution. Cloud cover dynamics
• Aerosol formation processes
• Aerosol and chemical processes in the atmosphere
• Interactions between aerosols and clouds
• Numerical modelling of the processes and properties of atmospheric aerosol
• The optical properties of atmospheric aerosol and clouds
• Aerosol long-range transport and deposition
• Aerosol radiative forcing and climate.