Reaction Mechanisms and Chemical Kinetics in Atmospheric Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

Many human activities (including burning fossil fuels, agricultural production, industrial manufacture, transport, etc.) have led to the release of a large number of chemical compounds into the atmosphere. These chemicals are polluting the living environments as well as causing global warming and climate change because they have altered the natural processes in the Earth’s atmosphere. To better understand the impacts of human activities on the environment, it is necessary to have knowledge of the sources and sinks of these chemical compounds. 

Chemistry in the atmosphere is rather complicated as hundreds or even thousands of coupled chemical reactions are constantly occurring in series and/or in parallel. One must carry out an atmospheric modeling simulation to resolve depletions, demonstrate the formations of key chemicals, and determine some key reactions that control the chemical process. To conduct such a modeling simulation, one must lay out the mechanisms in detail and the rate coefficients for elementary reactions. Traditionally, experimental techniques are usually used to obtain such (benchmark) information; however, there are certain limitations of these techniques including limited data availability and high costs. Therefore, high-level theoretical methods have emerged as an alternative choice. Theoretical results can be used to support, elucidate, and complement the experiments, as well as extrapolate results to conditions where there is a lack of experimental data.

In this Special Issue titled ‘Reaction Mechanisms and Chemical Kinetics in Atmospheric Chemistry’, we invite submissions in the following areas (this list is not exhaustive):

• Experimental studies;
• Theoretical (gas-phase kinetics and/or dynamics) calculations;
• Field measurements and satellites for atmospheric measurements;
• Atmospheric modeling;
• Interface reactions.

Dr. Thanh Lam Nguyen
Guest Editor

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• mechanisms
• kinetics
• master-equation
• rate constants
• DFT
• coupled-cluster