Regional Climate Variability and Its Impacts in the Mediterranean Area

2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6428-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 316 Seiten, mit 1 CD-ROM, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: NATO Science Series: IV:

This book details the findings and suggestions from a NATO workshop that examined regional climate variability and its impacts in the Mediterranean area, which was held in Marrakech, Morocco, November 2006. This NATO workshop was set up to discuss the issues facing the region in general and the influence of chemical emissions and transformation in particular.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mellouki, A.

Ravishankara, A R

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Luftreinhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Aeronomie, Ionosphäre, Magnetosphäre
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Climate and its Variability: Global and Regional Perspective.- Long-Range Transport of Pollutants Above the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for Air Quality and Regional Climate.- African Dust: Its Large-Scale Transport over the Atlantic Ocean and its Impact on the Mediterranean Region.- Radiative and Physiological Effects of Increased CO2: How does this Interaction Affect Climate in the Mediterranean Region?.- Climate Altering Trace Gases in the Mediterranean Area: Trends and Source Allocation.- Key Processes for Dust Emissions and their Modeling.- Modelling of the Global and Regional Phenomena.- Climate/Water-Cycle Feedbacks in the Mediterranean: The role of Land-Use Changes and the Propagation of Perturbations at the Regional and Global Scale.- Aerosols Direct Radiative Forcing on Djougou (Northern Benin) During the AMMA Dry Season Experiment.- Climate and Regional Air Quality.- Impact of Changing Climate and Emissions on Surface Ozone Distributions and Evolution.- Short and Long-Term Transport of Crustal and Anthropogenic Inorganic Components of Coarse and Fine Aerosols over Beirut, Lebanon.- Details of Chemical and Aerosols Processes.- Aerosols in Global Models – Focus on Europe.- Measurements of Ozone, Black Carbon and Particle Size Distributions Along a Mediterranean Cruise Track During the Period: October 2005-October 2006.- Concentration and Chemical Composition of PM2.5 and PM10-2.5 in the Northeastern Mediterranean.- Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compound Measurements in the City Centre of Wroclaw, Poland.- Non-Methane Hydrocarbons (NMHCs) Variability in the Eastern Mediterranean.- Representation of Chemical Detail in Atmospheric Models.- Photoenhanced Uptake of NO2 on Mineral Dust.- Gas Phase Processes Relevant to the Mediterranean Some New and ImportantTopics.- Other Presentations.- Climate Change and its Impacts in Morocco.- The Effect of Climate Changes on the Disposal Facility of Natural Occurring Radioactive Materials in Egypt.- Analysis of Down Looking GPS Occultation Simulated Data Using Least Squares and Abel Inversions.- Presentation of MADEPODIM Project.