Air Pollution in Eastern Asia

✍ Scribed by Bouarar, Idir; Brasseur, Guy P.; Wang, Xuemei

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 498
• Series: ISSI scientific report series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, written by an international group of experts from China, Europe and the USA, presents a broad and comprehensive analysis of the chemical and meteorological processes responsible for the formation of air pollutants in eastern Asia, and in particular for the development of severe pollution episodes observed primarily during winter in the northeastern part of China. With the rapid population growth, economic development and urbanization occurring in Asia, air pollution has become a major environmental problem in this part of the world. The book is organized around six distinct parts. The first part of the volume offers a general perspective on issues related to air pollution including persistent haze events in eastern and southern Asia. The second part presents an overview of air pollution sources (i.e., anthropogenic and biomass burning sources). The third part analyzes in-situ observations of chemical species in China, while the fourth part focuses on space observations of gas-phase and aerosol species. The modeling aspects are treated in the fifth part of the volume, which includes a presentation of several air quality forecast systems and an assessment of the role of urbanization on air pollution levels. Finally, the effects of air pollution on health and crop productivity in China are discussed in the last part of the book. The book also presents an integrated view of past and present situations in Asia and provides the scientific basis from which mitigation policies can be established and air quality can be improved.

Audience: This book is written for scientists, educators, students, environmental managers, policy-makers and leaders in public administration and private corporations who wish to use science-based information to mitigate air pollution. The book should help decision-makers to design effective policies for air quality improvement and to successfully manage short-term air pollution episodes that substantially affect people’s quality of life and strongly impact the economy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Overview of Persistent Haze Events in China (Renyi Zhang, Pengfei Tian, Yemeng Ji, Yun Lin, Jianfei Peng, Bowen Pan et al.)....Pages 3-25
An Overview of Air Quality Modeling Activities in South Asia (Rajesh Kumar, Mary C. Barth, Luca Delle Monache, Sachin D. Ghude, Gabriele Pfister, Manish Naja et al.)....Pages 27-47
Sources and Chemical Composition of Particulate Matter During Haze Pollution Events in China (Ru-Jin Huang, Junji Cao, Douglas R. Worsnop)....Pages 49-68
Photochemical Smog in Southern China: A Synthesis of Observations and Model Investigations of the Sources and Effects of Nitrous Acid (Tao Wang, Yutong Liang, Qiaozhi Zha, Li Zhang, Zhe Wang, Weihao Wang et al.)....Pages 69-85
Connection Between East Asian Air Pollution and Monsoon System (Mian Chin, Huisheng Bian, Tom Kucsera, Thomas Diehl, Zhining Tao, Dongchul Kim et al.)....Pages 87-103
Front Matter ....Pages 105-105
Anthropogenic Emissions in Asia (Claire Granier, Thierno Doumbia, Louise Granier, Katerina Sindelarova, Gregory J. Frost, Idir Bouarar et al.)....Pages 107-133
Biomass Burning Sources in China (Caiqing Yan, Jinting Yu, Yanan Zhao, Mei Zheng)....Pages 135-166
Sources and Long-Term Trends of Ozone Precursors to Asian Pollution (Trissevgeni Stavrakou, Jean-François Müller, Maite Bauwens, Isabelle De Smedt)....Pages 167-189
Source Apportionment of Tropospheric Ozone by Chemical Transport Model: From Global to City Cluster (Bin Zhu, Jinhui Gao, Xuewei Hou, Hanqing Kang, Chen Pan)....Pages 191-217
Front Matter ....Pages 219-219
Real-Time Characterization of Aerosol Particle Composition During Winter High-Pollution Events in China (Qiyuan Wang, Miriam Elser, Ru-Jin Huang, Suixin Liu, Yichen Wang, Imad El Haddad et al.)....Pages 221-244
Chemical Composition During Severe Haze Events in Northern China (Lili Wang, Yuesi Wang)....Pages 245-264
Spatial Distributions, Chemical Properties, and Sources of Ambient Particulate Matters in China (Song Guo, Jing Zheng, Min Hu)....Pages 265-284
Front Matter ....Pages 285-285
Observation of Air Pollution in Asia Using UV/Visible Space Sensors (Andreas Richter, Andreas Hilboll, Thomas Wagner)....Pages 287-307
Observation of Air Pollution over China Using the IASI Thermal Infrared Space Sensor (Cathy Clerbaux, Sophie Bauduin, Anne Boynard, Lieven Clarisse, Pierre Coheur, Maya George et al.)....Pages 309-322
Monitoring Aerosol Properties in East Asia from Geostationary Orbit: GOCI, MI and GEMS (Jhoon Kim, Mijin Kim, Myungje Choi)....Pages 323-333
Space Observation of Aerosols from Satellite Over China During Pollution Episodes: Status and Perspectives (Jacques Pelon, David M. Winker, Gérard Ancellet, Mark A. Vaughan, Damien Josset, Arianne Bazureau et al.)....Pages 335-364
Space Observations of Dust in East Asia (Paul Ginoux, Adrien Deroubaix)....Pages 365-383
Front Matter ....Pages 385-385
Predicting Air Pollution in East Asia (Idir Bouarar, Katinka Petersen, Claire Granier, Ying Xie, Bas Mijling, A. van der Ronald et al.)....Pages 387-403
Chemical Weather Forecasting for Eastern China (Ying Xie, Jianming Xu, Guangqiang Zhou, Luyu Chang, Yixuan Gu, Baode Chen)....Pages 405-416
Modelling Assessment of Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality in Eastern and Southern Asia (Mikhail Sofiev, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Julius Vira, Joana Soares, Marje Prank, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen et al.)....Pages 417-435
Chemical and Meteorological Feedbacks in the Formation of Intense Haze Events (Meng Gao, Gregory R. Carmichael, Yuesi Wang, Pablo E. Saide, Zirui Liu, Jinyuan Xin et al.)....Pages 437-452
Impact of Urbanization on Regional Climate and Air Quality in China (Xuemei Wang, Zhiyong Wu, Qi Zhang, Jason Cohen, Jiongming Pang)....Pages 453-476
Front Matter ....Pages 477-477
Surface PM2.5, Satellite Distribution of Atmospheric Optical Depth and Related Effects on Crop Production in China (Xuexi Tie, Xin Long, Wenting Dai, Guy P. Brasseur)....Pages 479-488
Research Perspectives on Air Pollution and Human Health in Asia (Benjamin Guinot, Isabella Annesi-Maesano)....Pages 489-504