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Particulate matter (PM) is a vital pollutant that severely impacts human health, ecosystem well-being, and climate systems. In this review, the importance of vertical profiling is considered for understanding PM behavior between different layers of the atmosphere, and it includes modern techniques used such as meteorological towers and building methods, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aircraft, and satellite-based aerosol optical depth measurements. A systematic review was conducted, sourcing 150 articles published between 2000 and 2023, using relevant keywords such as “Particulate Matter,” “Vertical Profiling,” “Environmental Impacts,” and “Climate Change” from databases like Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Key findings illustrate the vertical variations in PM levels associated with interactions among urban environments, meteorology, and specific atmospheric processes such as cloud formation, radiative forcing, and long-distance transport of pollutants. PM’s effects on biodiversity, nutrient cycles, and ecosystem stability are also discussed. The environmental impacts of PM deposition, including biodiversity loss, nutrient cycling disruption, and ecosystem destabilization, elucidate widespread chronic anthropogenic particulate causes of long-term ecological damage around the globe. The study also examines relevant regulatory frameworks, specifically air quality standards, and policies, underpinning mitigation strategies. This review discusses how PM pollution is an increasingly alarming health risk. It reiterates the importance of demanding effective regulations on the local and global levels to counteract detrimental environmental and climatic consequences. This review clearly shows the immediate threats of PM. It should form a wake-up call to develop more effective monitoring tools and stringent regulatory measures against this omnipresent pollutant.
颗粒物（PM）是一种严重影响人类健康、生态系统福祉和气候系统的重要污染物。在这篇综述中，考虑了垂直剖面对理解大气不同层之间PM行为的重要性，它包括使用的现代技术，如气象塔和建筑方法，无人驾驶飞行器（uav），飞机和基于卫星的气溶胶光学深度测量。研究人员从Web of Science、Scopus和谷歌Scholar等数据库中使用“颗粒物”、“垂直分析”、“环境影响”和“气候变化”等相关关键词，对2000年至2023年间发表的150篇文章进行了系统回顾。主要发现说明了PM水平的垂直变化与城市环境、气象学和特定大气过程（如云的形成、辐射强迫和污染物的远距离输送）之间的相互作用有关。讨论了PM对生物多样性、养分循环和生态系统稳定性的影响。PM沉积的环境影响，包括生物多样性丧失、养分循环中断和生态系统不稳定，阐明了全球范围内广泛存在的慢性人为颗粒物造成的长期生态破坏。该研究还审查了作为缓解战略基础的相关监管框架，特别是空气质量标准和政策。这篇综述讨论了PM污染如何成为日益令人担忧的健康风险。它重申必须要求在地方和全球各级制定有效规章，以抵消有害的环境和气候后果。这篇评论清楚地显示了总理的直接威胁。它应该为我们敲响警钟，让我们开发更有效的监测工具和严格的监管措施，来对付这种无处不在的污染物。
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Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health is a multidisciplinary journal which, by its very name, illustrates the broad range of work it publishes and which focuses on atmospheric consequences of human activities and their implications for human and ecological health.
It offers research papers, critical literature reviews and commentaries, as well as special issues devoted to topical subjects or themes.
International in scope, the journal presents papers that inform and stimulate a global readership, as the topic addressed are global in their import. Consequently, we do not encourage submission of papers involving local data that relate to local problems. Unless they demonstrate wide applicability, these are better submitted to national or regional journals.
Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health addresses such topics as acid precipitation; airborne particulate matter; air quality monitoring and management; exposure assessment; risk assessment; indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric modeling and prediction; air pollution climatology; climate change and air quality; air pollution measurement; atmospheric impact assessment; forest-fire emissions; atmospheric science; greenhouse gases; health and ecological effects; clean air technology; regional and global change and satellite measurements.
This journal benefits a diverse audience of researchers, public health officials and policy makers addressing problems that call for solutions based in evidence from atmospheric and exposure assessment scientists, epidemiologists, and risk assessors. Publication in the journal affords the opportunity to reach beyond defined disciplinary niches to this broader readership.
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