Atmospheric composition and its impacts



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Atmospheric Environment is the international journal for scientists in different disciplines related to atmospheric composition and its impacts. The journal publishes scientific articles with atmospheric relevance of emissions and depositions of gaseous and particulate compounds, chemical processes and physical effects in the atmosphere, as well as impacts of the changing atmospheric composition on human health, air quality, climate change, and ecosystems.

The overarching aim of Atmospheric Environment is to publish original research, reviews, and perspectives that advance the international scientific community's understanding of the composition of the atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment has adopted a broad perspective of the atmosphere to include the background locations in the troposphere and stratosphere, continental and urban locations, as well as indoor environments and microenvironments that expose humans to atmospheric components.

The scope of the journal includes natural and anthropogenic sources, transformations, and transport of atmospheric components, as well as the impacts of atmospheric components on global and regional climate, sensitive ecosystems, visibility, and human health. Atmospheric Environment specifically focuses on policy-relevant science that will influence regulations, management and protection of atmospheric resources, protection of ecosystems and human health, and will drive future scientific research efforts that investigate the atmosphere. Additional information about the evolving and expanding scope of Atmospheric Environment is presented below.

The editors of Atmospheric Environment will manage the journal to best advance its goals, whilst serving the atmospheric science community through delivery of the most recent high-quality research.

Atmospheric Environment encourages submissions describing novel experimental and modeling studies that advance understanding of the composition of the atmosphere and that elucidate sources, transport and transformations, and impacts from atmospheric components.

To be considered for publication in Atmospheric Environment, manuscripts should clearly show that the research directly advances the understanding of the composition of the atmosphere.

The following manuscripts will NOT be considered for publication:
studies of new experimental methods that are neither applied or do not advance the understanding of the composition of the atmosphere,
studies that examine emissions from novel atmospheric sources but do not demonstrate how these emissions impact the composition of the atmosphere,
studies that examine atmospheric transport but do not directly show how the investigated transport process impact the composition of the atmosphere,
computational studies that do not demonstrate the atmospheric relevancy of the computed chemical pathways or intermediate products, and
studies that focus on well-established or routine monitoring and modeling methods to investigate air pollution issues of local interest.


As research tools continue to advance and broaden the understanding of the impacts of atmospheric components, Atmospheric Environment is currently encouraging additional manuscript submissions in these developing areas:
indoor air quality,
satellites and remote sensing,
human health,
the use of real-time or semi-continuous experimental observations of the composition of the atmosphere, and
the use of data science to understand sources, transformation, transport, and the impacts of atmospheric components. Please note that studies that utilize novel data science tools that focus on forecasting and do not provide insight into atmospheric sources, processes, and impacts are not suitable for publication in Atmospheric Environment.


Atmospheric Environment is open to policy, economic, and environmental justice studies that focus on changes in the composition of the atmosphere but will only consider manuscripts that are appropriately targeted for the readership of Atmospheric Environment.

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Editors-in-Chief
Professor Chak K. Chan
Professor Chak K. Chan
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Dr. James J. Schauer
Dr. James J. Schauer
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Associate Editor
Assoc. Professor Jill Baumgartner
Assoc. Professor Jill Baumgartner
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Professor Benjamin de Foy
Professor Benjamin de Foy
Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, United States
Assist. Prof. Song Guo
Assist. Prof. Song Guo
Peking University, Beijing, China
Dr. Zhengqiang Li
Dr. Zhengqiang Li
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Professor Zoran Ristovski
Professor Zoran Ristovski
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Professor Mikhail Sofiev
Professor Mikhail Sofiev
Finnish Meteorological Institute, HELSINKI, Finland
Professor John Wenger
Professor John Wenger
University College Cork Environmental Research Institute, Cork, Ireland
Professor Jian Zhen Yu
Professor Jian Zhen Yu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Emeritus Editor
Dr. Hanwant Singh
Dr. Hanwant Singh
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States
Professor Alfred Wiedensohler
Professor Alfred Wiedensohler
Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Senior Editorial Assistants
Michelle Bergin
Michelle Bergin
North Carolina, USA
Dr. David Gay
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Editorial Advisory Board
Dr. Julian Aherne
Dr. Julian Aherne
Trent University Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Gregory Carmichael
Dr. Gregory Carmichael
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Dr. Nicola Carslaw
Dr. Nicola Carslaw
University of York, York, United Kingdom
Dr. H. Christopher Frey
Dr. H. Christopher Frey
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Professor Hai Guo
Professor Hai Guo
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Roy M. Harrison, OBE
Professor Roy M. Harrison, OBE
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Dr. Kimitaka Kawamura
Dr. Kimitaka Kawamura
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Professor Yong Pyo Kim
Professor Yong Pyo Kim
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Dr. Luke D. Knibbs
Dr. Luke D. Knibbs
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Professor Hong Liao
Professor Hong Liao
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Professor Denise Mauzerall
Professor Denise Mauzerall
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Assoc. Professor Michihiro Mochida
Assoc. Professor Michihiro Mochida
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Dr. Luisa T. Molina
Dr. Luisa T. Molina
Molina Center for Energy and the Environment, La Jolla, California, United States
Dr. Krishna K. Moorthy
Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore, India
Professor Hiroshi Okochi
Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Creative Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Paul I. Palmer
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dr. Jens Redemann, Dr
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Professor Lynn Russell
University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States
Dr. Martijn Schaap
TNO Energy, Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor John H. Seinfeld
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States
Professor Barbara Turpin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Dr. Heather Viles
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Dr. Jun Wang
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Professor Tao Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Xuemei Wang
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Professor Anthony Wexler
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States
Dr. Maosheng Yao
Peking University, Beijing, China
Dr. Xiaohong Yao
Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and Ecology, 266100, China
Professor Qi Zhang
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States
Dr. Yifang Zhu
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States