Microanalysis of Atmospheric Particles

The effects of atmospheric aerosols on climate and air quality are very timely. Due to advances in instrumentation as well as the need to study the complexity of atmospheric interactions, aerosol analysis has progressed from primarily the analysis of bulk material to the analysis of individual particles. Microanalysis of Atmospheric Particles: Climate Change and Air Quality - presents the latest developments in the various techniques for particles captured in place and how those techniques are used to explain the complexity of aerosols and their effects on climate and air quality. Techniques involve scanning electron microscopy, computer-controlled SEM for particle population analysis, transmission electron microscopy, and scanning TEM, energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry associated with electron microscopy, energy-filtering and electron energy loss spectrometry associated with TEM, focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy and FIB tomography, micro-Raman spectroscopy, scanning transmission x-ray microscopy and near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure, and atomic force microscopy.

Volume highlights include:

- Presents the state-of-the art in analyzing individual atmospheric particles by a variety of microanalytical techniques

- Focuses on aerosols in ambient air and their climate or air quality impacts or whose precursor emissions directly impact climate and air quality

- Discusses the use of microanalysis in studies of soot, mineral dust, organic aerosols, bioaerosols, heterogeneous reactions and particle aging, ice nucleation, and particle hygroscopicity

Microanalysis of Atmospheric Particles: Climate Change and Air Quality is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and professionals in the fields of atmospheric sciences, geosciences, earth sciences, environmental sciences, mineralogy, electron microscopy, and climate change studies.