Cloud Multi-phase Processes and High Alpine Air and Snow Chemistry : Ground-based Cloud Experiments and Pollutant Deposition in the High Alps

Among the chemical and physical processes involved in the transformation of pollutants between their sources and their ultimate deposition, those associated with clouds, aerosols and precipitation must be rated as the most difficult both to study and to understand. This book presents a variety of recent advances in this field, including the properties and composition of aerosol particles, chemical transformation and scavenging processes, the relationship between liquid-phase chemistry and cloud micro-physics, entrainment, evaporation and deposition, trends in high Alpine pollution, transport processes, and developments in instrumentation. This book is Volume 5 in the ten-volume series on Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-2 GCE: an Overview....Pages 3-11 Principal Results from GCE....Pages 13-47 GCE in Retrospective....Pages 49-51 Future Directions for Cloud Research....Pages 53-59 Individual Results from GCE Principal Investigators....Pages 61-152 GCE Publications 1990–1996....Pages 153-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 An Overview of ALPTRAC Research....Pages 165-172 Aims and Internal Structure of ALPTRAC....Pages 173-175 Principal Scientific Results....Pages 177-199 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 High Alpine Snow Pack Chemistry....Pages 203-224 Long-Term Pollution Trends....Pages 225-233 High Alpine Air, Aerosol and Cloud Chemistry....Pages 235-262 Meteorological Support to ALPTRAC....Pages 263-270 ALPTRAC Publications 1988–1996....Pages 271-282 Back Matter....Pages 283-287 Among the chemical and physical processes involved in the transformation of pollutants between their sources and their ultimate deposition, those associated with clouds, aerosols and precipitation must be rated as the most difficult both to study and to understand. This book presents a variety of recent advances in this field, including the properties and composition of aerosol particles, chemical transformation and scavenging processes, the relationship between liquid-phase chemistry and cloud micro-physics, entrainment, evaporation and deposition, trends in high Alpine pollution, transport processes, and developments in instrumentation. The book is Volume 5 in the ten-volume series on Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere.