Atmospheric Chemistry in the Mediterranean Region

This two-volume set provides an extensive review of the abundant past and recent literature on the atmospheric chemistry in the Mediterranean region. The books document the experience gained on the atmospheric composition over the Mediterraneanbasin and close areasafter almost sixdecades of studies, starting fromearlystudies of radioactive aerosol fallouts and intense desert dust events in the 1960s,aerosol samples collected during oceanographic cruises in the early 1980s and including discoveries from subsequent surface monitoring stations, intensive campaigns,satellite climatologies, laboratory studies,as well aschemistry-transportand climate models. Throughten thematic sections, the authors examine the sources andfates of atmospheric pollutants over the Mediterranean basin and what we know abouttheir major impacts on air quality and health, on the radiative budget and climate,on marine chemistryand biogeochemistry. This overview not only considers the fullcycle of both aerosol and reactive gases includingemissions, transport, transformation, and sinks,but also addresses the main impactsof the regional atmospheric chemistry. The volumes are an initiative from the endingChArMEx project that has federated many studies on those topics in the past decade,andupdatethe scientific knowledge by integrating the ChArMEx and non-ChArMExliterature. The books are contributed by a large pool of well-known authors from therespective fields, mainly from France and Greece, but alsofrom fourteen other countries.All chapters have been peer-reviewed by international scientific experts in the corresponding domains. Volume 1 provides background information on the Mediterranean atmosphere, and focuses on the synoptic and dynamic conditions affecting pollutant concentrations over the Mediterranean basin,aerosol concentrations and variability, and reactive gas concentrations and variability. Thetargetedaudience is the academic community working on atmospheric chemistry and its impacts on climate, air quality and marine biogeochemistry, especially teams having a special interest in the Mediterraneanregion, which includes many countries and institutesworldwide.