Ammann Markus
PSI Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland.
Faraday Discuss. 2025 May 7. doi: 10.1039/d5fd00042d.
Atmospheric chemistry in cold environments refers to key chemical processes occurring in Earth's atmosphere in locations relevant for society including the polar areas, the free and upper troposphere, and the stratosphere. Atmospheric chemistry in these areas is relevant for local air quality, ecosystem health, regional and global climate. This comprised excellent coverage of these areas in terms of longitude and latitude, altitude and temperature. It also featured a broad coverage of disciplines between physical, analytical and theoretical chemistry and also the related fields covering aspects of biology, health, meteorology, social sciences and even including policy and economic aspects. A core aspect of the discussions was rooted in interfacing the related diverse competences. Because traditional atmospheric chemistry has evolved around knowledge of mechanisms and kinetics of chemical reactions first in the gas phase and later including condensed phases of aerosol particles and ground surfaces centering around room temperature, the speciality of relevance in this was the recent progress in better understanding the evolution of multiphase chemistry at low temperatures, where many relevant properties such as solubility and volatility change dramatically. This was embedded in discussions of the results and challenges of the most recent measurements from a range of campaigns and long-term observations at research stations. The discussion evolved around the chemical cycles of important trace constituents, the formation and evolution of particulate matter under cold conditions, the link between cloud glaciation and air-mass characteristics, air-quality in cold urban environments, biosphere-atmosphere interactions in a warming Arctic, but also the role of interfacial chemistry and reactivity as they are involved in multiphase chemistry processes. Future threats for the cold part of our atmosphere come from increasing human activities in both polar regions with their impacts on ecosystems, air quality and broader scale atmospheric composition as well as from discussions of geoengineering solar radiation modification by stratospheric aerosol injection.
寒冷环境中的大气化学是指在与社会相关的地球大气区域(包括极地地区、对流层自由大气和上层大气以及平流层)中发生的关键化学过程。这些区域的大气化学与当地空气质量、生态系统健康、区域和全球气候相关。这包括在经度和纬度、海拔和温度方面对这些区域的出色覆盖。它还涵盖了物理化学、分析化学和理论化学以及相关领域(包括生物学、健康、气象学、社会科学,甚至包括政策和经济方面)的广泛学科。讨论的一个核心方面源于将相关的多种能力结合起来。由于传统大气化学首先围绕气相化学反应的机制和动力学知识发展,后来包括气溶胶颗粒和地面的凝聚相,以室温为中心,因此本次会议的相关特色是在更好地理解低温下多相化学演化方面取得的最新进展,在低温下,许多相关性质(如溶解度和挥发性)会发生巨大变化。这体现在对一系列活动的最新测量结果和研究站长期观测的挑战的讨论中。讨论围绕重要痕量成分的化学循环、寒冷条件下颗粒物的形成和演化、云冰化与气团特征之间的联系、寒冷城市环境中的空气质量、变暖北极地区的生物圈 - 大气相互作用,以及界面化学和反应性在多相化学过程中的作用展开。我们大气寒冷部分未来面临的威胁来自极地地区人类活动的增加,这些活动对生态系统、空气质量和更广泛尺度的大气成分产生影响,以及来自平流层气溶胶注入改变太阳辐射的地球工程讨论。