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Extremes in atmospheric phenomena and processes can strongly affect ambient air quality that has harmful impacts on human and climate health. High urbanization and industrialization are highly responsible for causing disturbances in different spheres of environment like atmosphere and its processes and phenomena. This will further impact human and climate health. Various episodic extreme events are reported in urban areas causing health impacts like respiratory disorders, cardiovascular diseases and damage to central nervous system that often lead to death. This chapter focuses on factors governing in atmosphere that resulted in air pollution, fundamental understanding about recent and historic air pollution episodes, emergencies and extremes and their impacts on living organisms. Moreover, possible mitigation strategies have also been discussed to reduce the occurrence of air pollution episodes and minimize the disturbance in atmospheric processes. It also summarizes the highlights of different chapters signifying various aspects of atmospheric processes, mechanisms, extremities, impacts and disaster risk mitigation strategies.
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Saxena, P., Shukla, A., Gupta, A.K. (2022). An Introduction to Extremes in Atmospheric Processes and Phenomena: Assessment, Impacts and Mitigation. In: Saxena, P., Shukla, A., Gupta, A.K. (eds) Extremes in Atmospheric Processes and Phenomenon: Assessment, Impacts and Mitigation . Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7727-4_1
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