Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts
Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, the thesis describes and quantifies the impact of volcanic sulphur emissio...
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ftunistlouisbrus:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:ebook:39022 2023-05-15T16:50:30+02:00 Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts Schmidt, Anja 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:39022 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34839-6 eng eng Springer ebook:39022 http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:39022 doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34839-6 urn:ISBN:9783642348396 Environmental protection Environmental Medicine Geology Geography GB5000 2013 ftunistlouisbrus https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34839-6 2017-10-18T22:26:43Z Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, the thesis describes and quantifies the impact of volcanic sulphur emissions on global aerosol, clouds and the radiative forcing of climate. The advanced model enables the first ever estimate of the impact of the emissions on aerosol microphysical properties such as particle number concentrations and sizes, and therefore a considerably improved ability to quantify the climate and air quality effects. There are several important discoveries in this thesis. Firstly, it is shown that continuously degassing volcanoes exert a major effect on global clouds and climate. Secondly, the impact of the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland is re-examined to show that this long-lasting flood lava eruption would have had major effects on clouds and climate. Thirdly, by combining her research on volcanism, atmospheric science and epidemiology, she shows that a present-day Laki-like eruption would seriously affect European air quality and cause over 100,000 premature deaths in the first year. Other/Unknown Material Iceland DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) Laki ENVELOPE(-18.237,-18.237,64.070,64.070) |
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Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, the thesis describes and quantifies the impact of volcanic sulphur emissions on global aerosol, clouds and the radiative forcing of climate. The advanced model enables the first ever estimate of the impact of the emissions on aerosol microphysical properties such as particle number concentrations and sizes, and therefore a considerably improved ability to quantify the climate and air quality effects. There are several important discoveries in this thesis. Firstly, it is shown that continuously degassing volcanoes exert a major effect on global clouds and climate. Secondly, the impact of the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland is re-examined to show that this long-lasting flood lava eruption would have had major effects on clouds and climate. Thirdly, by combining her research on volcanism, atmospheric science and epidemiology, she shows that a present-day Laki-like eruption would seriously affect European air quality and cause over 100,000 premature deaths in the first year. |
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Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts |
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Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts |
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Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts |
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Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts |
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Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol : From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts |
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modelling tropospheric volcanic aerosol : from aerosol microphysical processes to earth system impacts |
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