Toward integrated large-scale environmental monitoring using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A review of applications, signal processing, and future perspectives

A Fascista - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fighting Earth's degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical
interest and sources of hot debate in today's society. According to the United Nations, there …

Air pollution terrain nexus: A review considering energy generation and consumption

XC Wang, JJ Klemeš, X Dong, W Fan, Z Xu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Air pollution caused by energy generation and consumption is both a global as well as
localised issue. It contributes to global warming along with degradation in human health …

Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Atmosphere

MD Shupe, M Rex, B Blomquist, POG Persson… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
With the Arctic rapidly changing, the needs to observe, understand, and model the changes
are essential. To support these needs, an annual cycle of observations of atmospheric …

Evidence of free tropospheric and long-range transport of microplastic at Pic du Midi Observatory

S Allen, D Allen, F Baladima, VR Phoenix… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The emerging threat of atmospheric microplastic pollution has prompted researchers to
study areas previously considered beyond the reach of plastic. Investigating the range of …

Atmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regions

N Evangeliou, H Grythe, Z Klimont, C Heyes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In recent years, marine, freshwater and terrestrial pollution with microplastics has been
discussed extensively, whereas atmospheric microplastic transport has been largely …

[HTML][HTML] Oceanic climate changes threaten the sustainability of Asia's water tower

Q Zhang, Z Shen, Y Pokhrel, D Farinotti, VP Singh… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Water resources sustainability in High Mountain Asia (HMA) surrounding the Tibetan
Plateau (TP)—known as Asia's water tower—has triggered widespread concerns because …

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

JD Wille, V Favier, NC Jourdain, C Kittel… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
The disintegration of the ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have spurred much
discussion on the various processes leading to their eventual dramatic collapse, but without …

[HTML][HTML] Sources and fate of atmospheric microplastics revealed from inverse and dispersion modelling: From global emissions to deposition

N Evangeliou, O Tichý, S Eckhardt… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
We combine observations from Western USA and inverse modelling to constrain global
atmospheric emissions of microplastics (MPs) and microfibers (MFs). The latter are used …

Shape matters: long-range transport of microplastic fibers in the atmosphere

D Tatsii, S Bucci, T Bhowmick, J Guettler… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The deposition of airborne microplastic particles, including those exceeding 1000 μm in the
longest dimension, has been observed in the most remote places on earth. However, their …

A decline in emissions of CFC-11 and related chemicals from eastern China

S Park, LM Western, T Saito, AL Redington, S Henne… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Emissions of ozone-depleting substances, including trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), have
decreased since the mid-1980s in response to the Montreal Protocol,. In recent years, an …