Asian Atmospheric Pollution

Sources, Characteristics and Impacts

Ramesh P. Singh

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780128166932
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128166949
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts provides a concise yet comprehensive treatment of all aspects of pollution and air quality monitoring, across all of Asia. It focuses on key regions of the world and details a variety of sources, their transport mechanism, long term variability and impacts on climate at local and regional scales. It also discusses the feedback on pollutants, on different meteorological parameters like radiative forcing, fog formations, precipitation, cloud characteristics and more. Drawing upon the expertise of multiple well-known authors from different countries to underline some of these key issues, it includes sections dedicated to treatment of pollutant sources, studying of pollutants and trace gases using satellite/station based observations and models, transport mechanisms, seasonal and inter-annual variability and impact on climate, health and biosphere in general. Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts is a useful resource for scientists and students to understand the sources and dynamics of atmospheric pollution as well as their transport from one continent to other continents, helping the atmospheric modelling community to model different scenarios of the pollution, gauge its short term and long term impacts across regional to global scales and better understand the ramifications of episodic events. - Covers all of Asia in detail in terms of pollution - Focuses not only on local pollution, but on long-term transport of these pollutants and their impacts on other regions as well as the globe - Includes discussion of both particulate matter and greenhouse gases - Serves as a single resource on Asian air pollution and Impacts from the most current research across the globe including the US, Asia, Africa and Europe

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contributors
• About the editor
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Sources of atmospheric pollution in India
• Chapter 2 Air pollution: Facts, causes, and impacts
• Chapter 3 Atmospheric chemistry in Asia: Need of integrated approach
• Chapter 4 Atmospheric aerosols from open burning in South and Southeast Asia
• Chapter 5 Role of meteorology in atmospheric aerosols and air pollution over South Asia
• Chapter 6 Role of carbonaceous aerosols in Asian pollution
• Chapter 7 Atmospheric pollution and solar ultraviolet radiation in Asia
• Chapter 8 Distribution of reactive trace gases over South Asia: Observations and modeling
• Chapter 9 Response of plants to atmospheric air pollution: An Asian perspective
• Chapter 10 Air quality in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
• Chapter 11 Satellite observations of ammonia over South Asia
• Chapter 12 Air quality management in India using satellite data
• Chapter 13 Impact of emissions from coal-based thermal power plants on surrounding vegetation and air quality over Bokaro Thermal Power Plant
• Chapter 14 Ground and satellite measurements of tropospheric nitrogen oxides (NO2) over India
• Chapter 15 Ozone and aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau
• Chapter 16 Vertical profiles of trace gases in the troposphere over South Asia
• Chapter 17 Surface ozone in Indian urban region
• Chapter 18 Biomass burning emission and impacts on air pollution in China
• Chapter 19 Tropospheric ozone concentration over Pakistan
• Chapter 20 Characteristics of atmospheric pollutants over the northeastern region of India
• Chapter 21 Emission of black carbon and other particulate matter from transportation sector
• Chapter 22 Characteristics and sources of atmospheric particulate matter and health risk in Southwest China
• Chapter 23 Sources of lead (Pb) in atmosphere over Indian cities and health impacts
• Chapter 24 Sources of poor air quality and long-term variability over Kolkata
• Chapter 25 Long-range global transport and characterization of dust
• Chapter 26 The optical and microwave characteristics of dust storms over the Indo-Gangetic Plains
• Chapter 27 Effect of cyclones on atmospheric and meteorological parameters
• Index