Natural Aerosols, Gaseous Precursors and Their Impacts in Greece: A Review from the Remote Sensing Perspective
Abstrak
The Mediterranean, and particularly its Eastern basin, is a crossroad of air masses advected from Europe, Asia and Africa. Anthropogenic emissions from its megacities meet over the Eastern Mediterranean, with natural emissions from the Saharan and Middle East deserts, smoke from frequent forest fires, background marine and pollen particles emitted from ocean and vegetation, respectively. This mixture of natural aerosols and gaseous precursors (Short-Lived Climate Forcers—SLCFs in IPCC has short atmospheric residence times but strongly affects radiation and cloud formation, contributing the largest uncertainty to estimates and interpretations of the changing cloud and precipitation patterns across the basin. The SLCFs’ global forcing is comparable in magnitude to that of the long-lived greenhouse gases; however, the local forcing by SLCFs can far exceed those of the long-lived gases, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Monitoring the spatiotemporal distribution of SLCFs using remote sensing techniques is important for understanding their properties along with aging processes and impacts on radiation, clouds, weather and climate. This article reviews the current state of scientific know-how on the properties and trends of SLCFs in the Eastern Mediterranean along with their regional interactions and impacts, depicted by ground- and space-based remote sensing techniques.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (37)
Vassilis Amiridis
Stelios Kazadzis
Antonis Gkikas
Kalliopi Artemis Voudouri
Dimitra Kouklaki
Maria-Elissavet Koukouli
Katerina Garane
Aristeidis K. Georgoulias
Stavros Solomos
George Varlas
Anna Kampouri
Dimitra Founda
Basil E. Psiloglou
Petros Katsafados
Kyriakoula Papachristopoulou
Ilias Fountoulakis
Panagiotis-Ioannis Raptis
Thanasis Georgiou
Anna Gialitaki
Emmanouil Proestakis
Alexandra Tsekeri
Eleni Drakaki
Eleni Marinou
Elina Giannakaki
Stergios Misios
John Kapsomenakis
Kostas Eleftheratos
Nikos Hatzianastassiou
Pavlos Kalabokas
Prodromos Zanis
Mihalis Vrekoussis
Alexandros Papayannis
Andreas Kazantzidis
Konstantinos Kourtidis
Dimitris Balis
Alkiviadis F. Bais
Christos Zerefos
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2024
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.3390/atmos15070753
- Akses
- Open Access ✓