Changes in Atmospheric Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Anthropogenic activities strongly influence the atmospheric environment, which in turn alters human lives. In recent years, the atmospheric environment has changed a great deal due to rapid development in economics, energy consumption and global climate change. For example, China’s GDP has increased by almost 6% in the past few decades; this has been associated with the emergence of serious environmental problems such as heavy haze pollution, ozone exposure and acid deposition. These serious atmospheric environmental problems degrade the quality of human lives, hinder the development of society and even change the global climate, which feedback with damaging disasters such as global warming, super rainstorms, and hurricanes. China’s government has implemented a series of measures to reduce the air pollutant emissions—it reformed the energy structure, eliminated backward production capacity, and halted or cut back on the production levels since the 2010s. The air quality improved substantially. China’s measures, which have taken less than 10 years, have proven to be successful. During these periods, long-term observation networks for air pollutants, comprehensive field measurements, and model simulations for the analysis of air pollution improved our scientific knowledge of the atmospheric environment. However, the connection between the changes in the social and environmental sciences remains unclear, and investigations into these changes are urgent and important to expand the knowledge of this research area.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Air pollution and climate change.
• Long-term measurement and simulation on air pollution.
• Relations between the changes in the atmospheric environment and human beings.
• Prediction of future changes in the atmospheric environment.
• Changes in the atmospheric environment, from Asia to worldwide.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Baozhu Ge
Prof. Dr. Xuejun Liu
Dr. Syuichi Itahashi
Guest Editors

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• changes
• atmospheric environment
• prediction
• human beings
• air pollution
• Asia
• long-term measurement
• modeling and simulation
• deposition