The impact of global air pollution on climate and the environment is a new focus in atmospheric science. Intercontinental transport and hemispheric air pollution by ozone jeopardize agricultural and natural ecosystems worldwide and have a strong effect on climate. Aerosols, which are spread globally but have a strong regional imbalance, change global climate through their direct and indirect ef...

Atmospheric pollution critically affects forest ecosystems around the world by directly impacting the assimilation apparatus of trees and indirectly by altering soil conditions, which subsequently also leads to changes in carbon cycling. To evaluate the extent of the physiological effect of moderate level sulfate and reactive nitrogen acidic deposition, we performed a retrospective dendrochrono...

Atmospheric pollution due to the use of agricultural pesticide is a major concern today, regarding both public health, sustainable agriculture and ecosystems quality monitoring. This work aims to model pesticide atmospheric dispersion and to propose an useful air pollution prediction tool, using fluid mechanics equations and open-source GIS programming capabilities. This work focuses on pestici...

Atmospheric pollution is one of the worst threats to modern society. The consequences derived from different forms of atmospheric pollution vary from the local to the global scale, with deep impacts on climate, environment and human health. Several gaseous pollutants, even when present in trace concentrations, play a fundamental role in important processes that occur in atmosphere. Phenomena su...

1 Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Weßling, Germany 2 Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 3 Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Germany 4 Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Dept. Regional and Global Pollution Issues, Kjeller, Norway * now at: Laboratory fo...

Occurrence of gas phase ammonia in the area of Beijing (China) A. Ianniello, F. Spataro, G. Esposito, I. Allegrini, E. Rantica, M. P. Ancora, M. Hu, and T. Zhu CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Via Salaria Km 29.3, CP10, 00015 Monterotondo S., Rome, Italy State Key Joint Laboratory for Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineeri...

Worldwide atmospheric mercury measurements: a review and synthesis of spatial and temporal trends F. Sprovieri, N. Pirrone, R. Ebinghaus, H. Kock, and A. Dommergue Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende, Italy GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1/C...

This article reviews the literature on the use of mosses for monitoring atmospheric metal pollution. It discusses the nature of mosses, the mechanisms for moss uptake of metals from the air and wet precipitation, the various forms in which mosses are used for this purpose, and cases in which mosses have been used for monitoring local hot spots of pollution, and regional patterns of metal pollut...