Atmospheric Chemistry in the Mediterranean Region

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The scientific importance of atmospheric reactive gases and aerosols and the particular case of the Mediterranean region.- Chapter 3. The climate of the Mediterranean region and future projections in relation to air quality issues.- Chapter 4. The Mediterranean atmosphere under anthropogenic pressures.- Chapter 5. General atmospheric conditions and macro-scale processes.- Chapter 6. Synoptic scale circulation and mesoscale processes.- Chapter 7. Long range and vertical transport, troposphere-stratosphere exchange.- Chapter 8. Overview of Mediterranean aerosol studies.- Chapter 9. Chemical composition and levels of concentrations of aerosols in the Mediterranean.- Chapter 10. Diurnal to seasonal variability of aerosols above the Mediterranean.- Chapter 11. Inter-annual variability and long-term trends of aerosols above the Mediterranean.- Chapter 12. Anthropogenic and natural radionuclides in the Mediterranean.- Chapter 13. Ozone in the Mediterraneanatmosphere.- Chapter 14. Inorganic aerosol precursors in the Mediterranean atmosphere.- Chapter 15. Temporal and spatial variabilities of volatile organic compounds in the Mediterranean atmosphere.- Chapter 16. Summary of recent progress and recommendations for future research.

Dr. François Dulac is a senior research scientist in atmospheric chemistry from the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA). He is working at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) that is also part of CNRS, Univ. of Versailles-St-Quentin and Univ. of Paris-Saclay, and member of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace des Sciences de l'Environnement d'Ile de France (IPSL). He co-signs 76 papers published in high-level peer reviewed international journals including 2 in Nature, and has an Isi Web of Knowledge H-Index of 33. His main field of research is tropospheric aerosols, especially mineral dust, and their impacts on the surface ocean biogeochemistry, radiative budget, and air quality. Since his PhD in atmospheric chemistry and environmental physics (Univ. Paris-7, 1986) focused on Mediterranean aerosols, he has developed synergetic approaches based on multi parameter data, combining in situ observations, remote sensing and model approaches.
Dr. Stéphane Sauvage is Associate Professor at the Atmospheric Sciences and Environmental Engineering research unit of IMT Lille Douai. IMT Lille Douai is part of the Institute Mines-Telecom (IMT), the largest national higher education engineering consortium in France : IMT sign up nearly 14,000 engineering students annually (5-year program), MSc-level, engineering degree programmes in addition to 1,650 PhD students (3-year doctoral programmes) under the supervision of a permanent, full-time, internationally recognised academic and research staff. His work encompasses a long experience in developing and implementing methods for reactive trace gas measurements. His research activities mainly focus on air quality and atmospheric reactivity of gaseous compounds in order to better understand the impacts of human activities on the atmospheric composition in a context of climate change.