Collection
Remote Sensing of Aerosols & Trace Gases: Recent observations and emerging techniques
This topical collection from BAST invites research contributions on the latest multidisciplinary advances on remote sensing of aerosols and different trace gases using satellite and ground-based sensors.
Recent developments in Earth-observing satellites, both polar orbiting and geostationary platforms, enable us to quantify the aerosol and trace gases at a much finer spatial and temporal scale. Progresses have been especially made in terms of use of sensing capabilities covering a broader range of frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum including active as well as passive remote-sensing instruments with optical and microwave imagers.
This brings new opportunities and challenges to this domain allowing for the exploration of novel methods and applications, and to potentially improve the knowledge in continuation with the ground-based observations. Contributions are solicited from research on aerosols and trace gases inferred from remote sensing observations using satellite and ground-based sensors. The collection is particularly looking for retrieval techniques, atmospheric processes leading to the observed differences, including the influence of meteorological conditions and weather systems, case studies with broad regional/global implications, geospatial analysis and application of remote sensing data on epidemiological and climatological studies.
This topical collection from BAST is expected to provide the readers with a critical, all-inclusive overview of aerosols, and trace gas remote sensing originating from different studies using earth-observation satellite datasets and ground-based observations.
Editors
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David Broday Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
David Broday is an expert in air pollution and aerosol physics and has an extensive experience in exposure assessment to different stressors. In 2011 he established the Technion Center of Excellence in Exposure Science and Environmental Health (TCEEH), and still directs it. For his research he uses enviroinformatics, air pollutant sensor arrays that collect environmental data in the field and analyze them using various pooled-analysis methods, and new modeling approaches tailored for estimating pollutant dispersion and fate, and the exposure to airborne pollutants on a population scale while accounting for the peoples’ mobility/ commute.
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Tirthankar Banerjee Banaras Hindu University, India
Tirthankar Banerjee studies atmosphere-climate-agriculture-health issues with specific interest for the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP). He has experience in satellite remote sensing of aerosols and trace gases, especially in identifying vertical stratification of aerosols, classifying aerosol types, understanding trans-boundary transport of aerosols and trace gases, and in evaluating aerosol columnar properties with respect to near-surface measurements. His group is creating a high-resolution 3-Dimensional aerosol climatology map for the entire IGP, if not over the entire South Asia, using multiple satellite-retrieved and ground-based datasets.
