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SUMMARY:Modelling aerosol impacts on climate\, urban environment and human
  health  - Dr Christina Mitsakou (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20150511T131500Z
DTEND:20150511T141500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Amanda Maycock
DESCRIPTION:Aerosols impact on climate directly by absorbing and/or scatte
 ring radiation and thus modifying the radiation budget of the atmosphere\,
  as well as indirectly by acting as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ic
 e nuclei (IN) and thus affecting the cloud cover\, the distribution of pre
 cipitation and the hydrological cycle. Also\, aerosols released from natur
 al sources\, such as mineral dust emitted from arid desert areas\, may as 
 well burden the environment and lead to exceedances of limit values set by
  the EU. This is particularly evident in urban areas\, where the contribut
 ion of the anthropogenic sources to the deterioration of the air quality i
 s also significant. Finally\, the connection between suspended particles a
 nd adverse health effects has been well established in the past decades an
 d thus a part of the research community has focused on the precise estimat
 ion of people’s exposure to particulate matter. This talk merges a numbe
 r of modelling studies that deal with simulating the aerosol impacts in th
 e above different scales of environment. Would the development of an integ
 rated modelling system\, which would include interaction mechanisms betwee
 n the various scales\, aid to studying/controlling future aerosol impacts 
 on environment?
LOCATION:Unilever Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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