Overview
- Provides basic information on air pollutants and radiative forcers
- Features current data from Europe, North America, Asia, and the Southern Hemisphere
- Includes mitigation of air pollutants and mid-term climate change by reducing SLCPs
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About this book
This book covers different kinds of air pollutants and radiative forcers and how they can be measured. It also mentions the situation of air pollutants in different continents and their regional impacts to human health, environment and economy as well as their link to extreme weather events. The book presents how the air pollution and climate change can be mitigated and how clean air technologies and international initiatives for co-controlling air pollution and climate change have been developed.
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Table of contents (57 entries)
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Emissions of Atmospheric Pollutants
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Ground-Based, In Situ Surface Observations
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Ground-Based, Remote Sensing Observations
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Passenger and Cargo Aircraft Observations
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Hajime Akimoto received his B.S. in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1967 in physical chemistry from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. For his postdoctoral research he spent 3 years, 1969–1971, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, and worked on the chemistry of photochemical air pollution. In 1974 he joined the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba, Japan, as the head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Section in the Atmospheric Environment Division, and then served as the chief of the Atmospheric Environment Division and Global Environment Division.
Subsequently, Dr. Akimoto moved to the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo as a professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined the Frontier Research Center for Global Change, now under the Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology as the director of the Atmospheric Composition Research Program. After 2010 he served as director general of the Asia Center for Air Pollution Research in Niigata, Japan. Currently, he is a guest scientist at the National Institute for Environmental Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change
Editors: Hajime Akimoto, Hiroshi Tanimoto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2760-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2759-3Published: 28 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2760-9Published: 27 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 1505
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 527 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate, general, Pollution, general, Public Health