Environmental Chemistry of Aerosols brings together the current state of knowledge of aerosol chemistry.

Motivated by climate change and adverse health effects of traffic-related air pollution, aerosol research has intensified over the past couple of decades, and recent scientific advances offer an improved understanding of the mechanisms and factors controlling the chemistry of atmospheric aerosols.

Contents

Physical and Chemical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols

• Ambient Aerosol Size Distributions
• Major Chemical Components of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter
• Aerodol Composition as a Function of Size
• Summary and Conclusions

Nucleation

• Introduction
• Nucleation Kinetics
• Nucleation Thermodynamics
• The Nucleation Theorem

Mass Transfer to Aerosols

• Transfer to a Particle
• Transfer to an Aerosol

Organic Aerosols

• Carbon-Containing Aerosols and Their Sources
• Atmospheric Chemistry of Organic Aerosols - Field Studies
• Carbonaceous Aerosols at Urban/Rural Environments

Metals in Aerosols

• Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Metals in Aerosols
• Reactivity of Transition metals

Thermodynamics of Aqueous Systems

• Equilibrium
• Mixed Solvent Systems- A Brief Outline
• Aqueous Systems
• General Aqueous Thermodynamic Equilibrium Models for Atmospheric Aerosols
• Inorganic Systems
• Organic Systems
• Mixed Inorganic/Organic Systems
• Temperature - Dependent Equilibrium
• The Influence of Curvature

Stratospheric Chemistry: Aerosols and the Ozone Layer

• General Properties of the Stratospheric Aerosol Layer
• Gereral Stratospheric Chemistry
• Heterogenous Stratospheric Chemistry
• Polar Statospheric Clouds and the 'Ozone Hole'
• Volcanic Aerosol
• Meteoritic Aerosol
• Interactions Between Stratospheric Chemistry and Climate

Aerosol Chemistry in Remote Locations

• Observations
• Summary

Index

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