Atmospheric Aerosol Properties: Formation, Processes and Impacts / Edition 1

by Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Lev S. Ivlev, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Costas A. Varostos

Overview

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how aerosols form in the atmosphere through in situ processes as well as via transport from the surface (dust storms, seas spray, biogenic emissions, forest fires etc.). Such an analysis has been followed by the consideration of both observation data (various field observational experiments) and numerical modeling results to assess climate impacts of aerosols bearing in mind that these impacts are the most significant uncertainty in studying natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540262633
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/14/2005
Series:	Springer Praxis Books
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	572
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x 0.39(d)

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.