Global Atmospheric Change and its Impact on Regional Air Quality

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
European Research on Atmospheric Global Change: EU Supported Projects and Future Planning....Pages 3-5
Probing Chemical Mechanisms in Clean and Polluted Environments through Field Measurement/Model Comparisons....Pages 7-12
Formation and Cycling of Aerosols in the Global Troposphere....Pages 13-18
Active and Passive Sensing of Aerosol from Space....Pages 19-24
Global Self-Regulation of Ozone in the Earth Atmosphere....Pages 25-30
Tropospheric Multiphase Chemistry in Field, Modelling and Laboratory Studies....Pages 31-36
Stable Carbon Isotope Ratio Measurements: A New Tool to Understand Atmospheric Processing of Volatile Organic Compounds....Pages 37-42
Air Pollution Monitoring in Romania....Pages 43-48
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Modelling of Ozone and Secondary Organic Aerosol across Europe: Results from the EMEP models....Pages 51-56
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Emission of Atmospheric Pollutants from Aero Engines....Pages 59-64
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The Impact of Halogen Chemistry on the Oxidation Capacity of the Troposphere....Pages 67-75
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Recent Developments in Peroxy Radical Chemistry....Pages 79-84
Atmospheric Chemistry of Oxygenated VOCs....Pages 85-90
Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Atmospheric Degradation of Aldehydes....Pages 91-96
The Photochemical Degradation of Chloral and Oxalyl Chloride....Pages 97-101
Fluorinated Radical Reactions of Atmospheric Importance....Pages 103-108
Heterogeneous Reactions Affecting Chlorine Activation in the Troposphere....Pages 109-113
PhotoChemical Processes in the Atmosphere....Pages 115-120
Atmosphere-Related Aspects of the Aqueous Phase Oxidation of Sulphur Dioxide....Pages 121-127
Soot Particles from Different Combustion Sources: Composition, Surface groups, Oxidation under Atmospheric Conditions....Pages 129-135
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Investigation of Particle Formation in the Photo-oxidation of Dimethyl Sulphide....Pages 141-146
Model Study of the Photooxidation of CH 3 SO 2 SCH 3 at Atmospheric Pressure: Thermal Decomposition of the CH 3 SO 2 Radical....Pages 147-152
Atmospheric Oxidation of Selected Primary Alcohols....Pages 153-158
Interaction of Ozone with Sodium Chloride — a Possible Additional Source of Chlorine in the Atmosphere....Pages 159-162
Transition Metal Ions in The Processes Of Acid Rain Formation....Pages 163-165
The Role of HCl and HBr in Heterogeneous Processes of Stratospheric Ozone Decomposition....Pages 167-171
Comparison of the NO 3 Heterogeneous Uptake on Dry and Humidified NaX (X=Cl,Br) Salts....Pages 173-179
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Air Pollution in Turkey....Pages 183-188
Background State and Trends of Sulfur Dioxide and Sulfate Aerosols in the Atmosphere over Russia....Pages 189-194
Changes in Land Use and Land Cover in Arid Southern Mediterranean on the Long Term Using Remote Sensing and GIS — A Case Study of Northwest Egypt....Pages 195-201
Investigation of PAH in Atmospheric Aerosols and Precipitation’s of East Siberia....Pages 203-208
Regional Atmospheric Changes Caused by Natural and Antropogeneous Factors....Pages 209-214
Environmental problems connected with air pollution in the industrial regions of Ukraine....Pages 215-222
Comparison of Experimental and Calculated Data on Ion Composition of Precipitation in the South of East Siberia....Pages 223-228
Monitoring of the Spatial and Temporal Variation of the Particle Size Distribution and Chemical Composition of the Atmospheric Aerosol in Siberia....Pages 229-235
Model Accumulation Mode of Atmospheric Aerosol Including Photochemical Aerosol Formation, Coagulation, Dynamics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Relative Humidity....Pages 237-242
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the Atmospheric Air of Moscow: The Impact of Industry and Transport....Pages 243-247
Transcontinental Observations of the Surface Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Concentrations by using the Carriage-Laboratory....Pages 249-254
Evaluation of On-Road Vehicle Emissions: The Lundby Tunnel Study in Gothenburg, Sweden....Pages 255-259
Season Variation of Near Ground Impurities of O 3 and CO in East Siberia....Pages 261-266
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Roadside Measurements of Traffic Emissions from Motorway BAB 656 in Heidelberg with Emphasis on Particles....Pages 267-271
The Effect of Distant Sources of Ozone and PM 10 s on Boundary Layer Air Quality in Cornwall — a rural area in the UK....Pages 273-278
Chemical Composition of Atmospheric Fall-Out as an Indicator of the Impact of Local Aerosol Emission Sources on Global Air Quality Change....Pages 279-285
Influence of the Anthropogenic Emissions and Atmospheric Chemical Processes on Climate in the XXI Century....Pages 287-293
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Digital Photogrammetric Method for Ecological Monitoring....Pages 297-301
Hydrogen Technology: H 2 Storage and Release....Pages 303-308
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Effects from Industrial Emissions on the Lake Baikal Region Forests....Pages 311-315
Assessment of Siberian Forest Ecosystem Stability Against the Acidification....Pages 317-320
Air Pollution in the Adirondack Park; Public-Private Efforts to Reduce Acidity in Soils and Water....Pages 321-326
Back Matter....Pages 327-330