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New Trends in Air Quality and Climate Change Interlinks
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New Trends in Air Quality and Climate Change Interlinks

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 7019

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Francisco Barraza

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School of Geography, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand
Interests: environmental health, air pollution; human exposure; environmental management; future climate change; geosciences: statistics and modelling; geochemistry

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleague,

Air quality and future climate are closely interlinked, in particular, since anthropogenic atmospheric emissions began to play a relevant role in climate variability properties. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recognized that an early cut of climate pollutants can help us to achieve a reduction of the rate of global warming and bring opportunities to human adaptive capacity, and the prevention of millions of deaths from air pollution.

However, do we know everything about air quality and its link to the future climate and vice versa?

The current Special Issue invites a broad audience, from human researchers to physical and earth scientists, as well as policymakers, to share new scientific and original studies about the interlinks between air pollution and future climate change.

Dr. Francisco Barraza
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • air pollution
  • climate change
  • climate variability
  • black carbon
  • greenhouse gases
  • environmental management
  • environmental policies
  • short-lived climate pollutants
  • 1.5°C climate goal
  • climate change policies

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Precast Concrete Pavements of High Albedo to Achieve the Net “Zero-Emissions” Commitments
by Miguel Ángel Sanjuán, Ángel Morales and Aniceto Zaragoza
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(4), 1955; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app12041955 - 13 Feb 2022
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Pavements store heat, which is subsequently released into the atmosphere, heating the surrounding air. Therefore, this process contributes to climate change and global warming. For this reason, the use of high-solar-reflectance (albedo) pavements is seen as one of the potential mitigation methods for [...] Read more.
Pavements store heat, which is subsequently released into the atmosphere, heating the surrounding air. Therefore, this process contributes to climate change and global warming. For this reason, the use of high-solar-reflectance (albedo) pavements is seen as one of the potential mitigation methods for climate change. Concrete pavements have a much higher albedo than asphalt due to their light gray color compared with black pavements. Accordingly, the widespread utilization of highly reflective concrete pavements will improve local climate change mitigation. Nevertheless, concrete albedo slightly decreases over time because of weathering. Albedo and solar reflectance index (SRI) measurements were taken on actual precast concrete pavements made with different mixes. The methodology applied for this project is based on the comparison between the asphalt and concrete pavements’ reflectivity. Conventional concrete mix designs can provide cool pavements with SRI higher than 29. Replacement of black pavements by highly reflective concrete pavements appeared to be a cost-effective and easily implemented measure to combat climate change. Finally, multidisciplinary studies considering factors such as building materials’ albedo, among other mitigation measures, should be performed to provide more precise and reliable guidance to policymakers, stakeholders, decision makers and urban planners. Full article
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A Statistical Procedure for Analyzing the Behavior of Air Pollutants during Temperature Extreme Events: The Case Study of Emilia-Romagna Region (Northern Italy)
by Maria Ragosta, Mariagrazia D’Emilio, Luciana Casaletto and Vito Telesca
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(17), 8266; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app11178266 - 06 Sep 2021
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Meteorological conditions play a crucial role in air pollution by affecting both directly and indirectly the emissions, transport, formation, and deposition of air pollutants. Extreme weather events can strongly affect surface air quality. Understanding relations between air pollutant concentrations and extreme weather events [...] Read more.
Meteorological conditions play a crucial role in air pollution by affecting both directly and indirectly the emissions, transport, formation, and deposition of air pollutants. Extreme weather events can strongly affect surface air quality. Understanding relations between air pollutant concentrations and extreme weather events is a fundamental step toward improving the knowledge of how excessive heat impacts on air quality. In this work, we developed a statistical procedure for investigating the variations in the correlation structure of four air pollutants (NOx, O3, PM10, PM2.5) during extreme temperature events measured in monitoring sites located of Emilia Romagna region, Northern Italy, in summer (June–August) from 2015 to 2017. For the selected stations, Hot Days (HDs) and Heat Waves (HWs) were identified with respect to historical series of maximum temperature measured for a 30-year period (1971–2000). This method, based on multivariate techniques, allowed us to highlight the variations in air quality of study area due to the occurrence of HWs. The examined data, including PM concentrations, show higher values, whereas NOx and O3 concentrations seem to be not influenced by HWs. This operative procedure can be easily exported in other geographical areas for studying effects of climate change on a local scale. Full article
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Spatio-Temporal Variation of Reference Evapotranspiration and Its Climatic Drivers over the Tibetan Plateau during 1970–2018
by Shanshan Hu, Ruyi Gao, Tao Zhang, Peng Bai and Rui Zhang
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(17), 8013; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app11178013 - 30 Aug 2021
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Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is a key component of hydrologic cycle and it is important for water resources management. Analysis of ET0 changes is particularly critical for understanding the impacts of climatic change on hydrology in ecologically fragile regions. In [...] Read more.
Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is a key component of hydrologic cycle and it is important for water resources management. Analysis of ET0 changes is particularly critical for understanding the impacts of climatic change on hydrology in ecologically fragile regions. In this study, using the Penman–Monteith method and the Mann–Kendall test, the variation characteristics of ET0 on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) from 1970 to 2018 was analyzed, and the dominant climatic factors controlling the change of ET0 was also explored. The result shows that in TP region: (1) there was an abrupt change in the trend of ET0 around 1997, and the ET0 declined at a rate of −25.9 mm/decade during 1970–1996 but increased by 31.1 mm/decade during 1997–2018; (2) ET0 is most sensitive to solar radiation, then relative humidity, wind speed and mean temperature; (3) the decrease of ET0 before 1997 was mainly due to the decline of wind speed and the increase of relative humidity, while the increase of ET0 after 1997 was mainly due to the decrease of relative humidity. The results of this study can provide data reference for the research of water balance on the TP. Full article
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