URBAN AND REGIONAL AIR QUALITY

This series presents authoritative invited summaries of research on atmospheric chemistry in a changing world. The summaries range from comprehensive reviews of major subject areas to focused accounts by individual research groups. The topics may include laboratory studies, field measurements, in situ monitoring and remote sensing, studies of composition, chemical modeling, theories of atmospheric chemistry and climate, feedback mechanisms, emissions and deposition, biogeochemical cycles, and the links between atmospheric chemistry and the climate system at large.

This volume has chapters describing research on health effects of air pollution, on kinetics and mechanisms of volatile organic compound oxidation, on the atmospheric chemistry of isoprene, on ground-based mobile monitoring in air quality evaluation, on how political instability and surrounding deserts in Middle Eastern countries affect the urban and regional air quality, and on tropospheric oxidation capacity.

Contents:

• Health Effects of Air Pollution (Tao Xue and Tong Zhu)
• How do Political Instability and Surrounding Deserts in Middle Eastern Countries Affect Urban and Regional Air Quality? (Youssef Harb, Amale Mcheik and Nathalie Hayeck)
• New Insights into VOC Oxidation: Kinetic and Atmospheric Impacts (M Anwar H Khan, Dudley E Shallcross, Craig A Taatjes and Carl J Percival)
• Intercomparison of the Representations of the Atmospheric Chemistry of Isoprene in Earth System and other Global Chemistry-Transport Models (Richard G Derwent)
• Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Biogenic VOCs with NO₃ Radicals (Bénédicte Picquet-Varrault, Manuela Cirtog and Sergio Harb)
• The Role of Ground-based Mobile Monitoring in Air Quality Evaluation (Yu Ting Yu, Shaojun Zhang, Sheng Xiang, Pan Yang, Hui Wang, Tie Zheng and Ye Wu)
• Assessing the Sensitivity of Ozone Production to NO_x and VOCs: Photochemical Indicators, Detailed Chemistry, and Experimental Methods (A C Nölscher)
• Intersections between Trends in NO_x and VOCs and the Impacts on Chemistry of Cities (Xiaomeng Jin, Hannah S Kenagy, Chi Li, Qindan Zhu, Arlene M Fiore and Ronald C Cohen)

Readership: Graduate students and professionals interested in environmental/atmospheric chemistry, climate science, analytical and physical chemistry and surface/interface chemistry.