Dust storms are producing deadly hidden air pollution by transforming mineral grains into chemical reactors, impacting health ...

Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a ...

This discovery signifies a major step towards improving climate models and developing more targeted strategies to mitigate climate impact of airborne particles. Atmospheric organic aerosols ...

Together with Liu Mingxu, also at Nagoya University, Matsui combined an aerosol-climate model with aircraft measurements to assess the magnitude of secondary organic aerosol formation and growth.

The research team estimates that this multi-step oxidation accounts for more than 70% of the total anthropogenic organic aerosol pollution. Their results can improve air pollution models by ...

A study published in Science reveals that plant-derived secondary organic aerosols (SOAs ... from Nagoya University in Japan has developed a model to clarify the importance of analyzing the ...

My group's research focuses on improving our understanding of aerosol formation and growth using a combination of field measurements, laboratory experiments, modeling ... and may serve as a source of ...

Understanding the partitioning of molecular constituents between the gas and particle phases is central to the whole endeavour of aerosol science. This project applies ultra-sensitive techniques to ...

Additionally, the ecological effects of ON aerosol depositions are anticipated ... deposition flux of total nitrogen was organic. However, previous models have largely neglected the spatial ...