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Springer Regional Climate Variability And Its Impacts In The Mediterranean Area 2007 Edition by A. Mellouki A.R. Ravishankara
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. Table of contents : Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Climate and its Variability: Global and Regional Perspective. 1-a) Long-range Transport of Pollutants Above the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for Air Quality and Regional Climate; N. Mihalopoulos.- 1-b) African dust: its large-scale transport over the Atlantic Ocean and its impact on the Mediterranean region; J.M. Prospero.- 1-c) Radiative and Physiological Effects of Increased CO2 How does this interaction affect Climate in the Mediterranean Region?; L. Bounoua.- 1-d) Climate altering trace gases in Mediterranean area: Trends and source allocation; M. Maione.- 1-e) Key processes for dust emissions and their modeling; G. Bergametti B. Marticorena B. Laurent.- 2. Modelling of the Global and Regional Phenomena. 2-a) Climate/Water-cycle feedbacks in the Mediterranean: the role of land-use changes and the propagation of perturbations at the regional and global scale; M. Millan.- 2-b) Aerosols direct radiative forcing on Djougou (Northern Benin) during the AMMA dry season experiment; M. Malle et al.- 3. Climate and Regional Air Quality. 3-a) Impact of changing climate and emissions on surface ozone distributions and evolution; H. Tanimoto et al.- 3-b) Short and long-term transport of crustal and anthropogenic inorganic components of coarse and fine aerosols over Beirut Lebanon; N. Saliba et al.- 4. Details of Chemical and Aerosols Processes. 4-a) Aerosols in global models - focus on Europe; M. Kanakidou.- 4-b) Measurements of ozone Black Carbon and particle size distributions along a Mediterranean cruise track during the period: October 2005-October 2006; K. Velchev et al.- 4-c) Concentration and chemical composition of PM2.5 and PM 10- 2.5 in the north-eastern Mediterranean; N. Kubilay et al.- 4-d) Non-methane volatile organic compound measurements in the city centre of Wroclaw Poland; A. Niedojadlo et al.- 4-e) Non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) variability in the eastern Mediterranean; C.Arsene et al.- 4-f) Representation of chemical detail in atmospheric models; M.J. Pilling.- 4-g) Photoenhanced uptake of NO2 on mineral dust; C. George et al.- 4-h) Gas phase processes relevant to the Mediterranean: Some new and important topics; I. Barnes I. Bejan.- 5. Other presentations. 5-a) Climate change and its impacts in Morocco; M.S. Karrouk.- 5-b) The effect of climate changes on the disposal facility of natural occurring radioactive materials in Egypt; M. Abdel Geleel Mohamed.- 5-c) Analysis of down looking GPS occultation simulated data using least squares and abel inversions; A. El-Kutb Mousa T. Tsuda.- 5-e) Presentation of MADEPODIM project; A. Azzi.- List of Participants. Authors Index. Subject Index