Microanalysis of Atmospheric Particles
Techniques and Applications in Climate Change and Air Quality
Geophysical Monograph Series

The effects of atmospheric aerosols on climate and air quality are very timely. Due to advances in instrumentation as well as the need to study the complexity of atmospheric interactions, aerosol analysis has progressed from primarily the analysis of bulk material to the analysis of individual particles. Microanalysis of Atmospheric Particles: Climate Change and Air Quality - presents the latest developments in the various techniques for particles captured in place and how those techniques are used to explain the complexity of aerosols and their effects on climate and air quality. Techniques involve scanning electron microscopy, computer-controlled SEM for particle population analysis, transmission electron microscopy, and scanning TEM, energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry associated with electron microscopy, energy-filtering and electron energy loss spectrometry associated with TEM, focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy and FIB tomography, micro-Raman spectroscopy, scanning transmission x-ray microscopy and near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure, and atomic force microscopy.

Volume highlights include:

- Presents the state-of-the art in analyzing individual atmospheric particles by a variety of microanalytical techniques

- Focuses on aerosols in ambient air and their climate or air quality impacts or whose precursor emissions directly impact climate and air quality

- Discusses the use of microanalysis in studies of soot, mineral dust, organic aerosols, bioaerosols, heterogeneous reactions and particle aging, ice nucleation, and particle hygroscopicity

Microanalysis of Atmospheric Particles: Climate Change and Air Quality is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and professionals in the fields of atmospheric sciences, geosciences, earth sciences, environmental sciences, mineralogy, electron microscopy, and climate change studies.

OVERVIEW OF TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS

1)      Electron Microscopy and Associated Analytical Techniques.
J. Conny and Robert Fletcher, NIST

2)      Importance of Microanalysis in Air Quality Studies
Weijun Li, Zhejiang University

3)      Importance of Microanalysis in Climate Studies
Mihaly Posfai, Univ. Pannonia

MICROANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES

4)      Particle Population Analysis by Scanning Electron Microscopy.
Gary Casuccio, RJ Lee Group

5)      Analysis of Light Elements with Electron Microscopy and Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy.
Chul-Un Ro, Inha Univ.

6) Energy-Filtered Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Energy-Loss Spectrometry.
Karine Deboudt, Univ. Littoral Cote dOpale

7)      Micro-Raman Spectroscopy of Particles.
Claude Bremard, Univ. Lille Sci. Technol.

8)      Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy and Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure.
Lynn Russell, Univ. California San Diego

9)      Tomography with Focused Ion-Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy.
J. Conny

10)  Atomic Force Microscopy of Particles.
Sophie Sobanska, Univ. Lille Sci. Technol.

11)  Recent Advances and Future Prospects in Particle Microanalysis.
Alexander Laskin, Pacific Northwest National Lab

PARTICLE TYPES AND TRANSFORMATIONS

12)  Transmission Electron Microscopy of Soot.
Kouji Adachi, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan

13)  Scanning Electron Microanalysis of Mineral Dust.
Konrad Kandler, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany

14)  Microanalysis of Organic Aerosols.
Andrew Ault, Univ. of Michigan

15)  Microanalysis of Bioaerosols.
Daniel Cziczo, MIT

16)  Microanalytical Studies of Heterogeneous Reactions and Particle Aging.
Vickie Grassian, Univ. of Iowa

17)  Microanalysis of Ice Nucleation.
Daniel Knopf, Stony Brook University

18)  Microanalysis of Particle Hygroscopicity
Mary Gilles, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab