This book addresses the atmospheric phenomenon of fog formation and its impacts on plant and human life. It covers the chemistry, formation, dynamics, impacts and dissipation of the fog. It also elucidate basic concepts of formation of fog, role of meteorology in fog formation, chemistry of fog, how different chemical constituents present in fog affects its quality and surrounding atmosphere, impacts on plant species, human health, visibility and economy and dissipation of fog by cost effective techniques. It also highlights the use of some plant species in managing the fog induced pollution. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, climate change scientists, professionals involved in air quality, meteorology, plant and humans related research, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, and environmental sciences. National and international environmentalists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.
Chapter
1. Introduction to Fog as a Phenomenon.
Chapter
2. Atmospheric
Processes and Mechanisms Involved in Fog Formation.
Chapter
3. Perspectives
on Fog Chemistry: Characteristics, Variability and its Scavenging
Efficiency.
Chapter
4. Characterization of chemical constituents in Acidic
Fog.
Chapter
5. Urban Fog and Its Impact on Atmospheric Visibility
Degradation.
Chapter
6. Fog Dynamics in Affecting Climate and Air Quality.-
Chapter
7. Impact of Fog on Physiology and Growth of Plant Species.
Chapter
8. Impact of Fog on Human Health Metabolism and Functioning.
Chapter
9.
Governance of Side Effects - The Case of Impact of Fog on Economy.
Chapter
10. Role of Satellites and Sensors in Fog Predictability.
Chapter
11.
Cost-Effective Measures of Fog Remediation and Control: Mitigation of Health
Impacts and Safety Risks.- Chapter
12. Policy Implications and Mitigation
Strategies for Combating Fog Problem.
Pallavi Saxena is an Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India and serving as SSC member in iLEAPS and GEIA. Her area of interest is air pollution nature-based solutions, sustainability indicators and published about 60 publications. Dr. Saxena has been selected as Lead Author in GEO-7 UNEP Report and authored an Independent Expert Report on Climate change and biodiversity for European Commission in 2024. Dr. Saxena has been selected as an Expert Member in various international meetings and forums like Stockholm +50, COP28, COP29, IPBES 9, 10 and 11, KCI 2022. Anil Kumar Gupta is currently Full Professor of Policy-strategy and Capacities. and Chief Executive of ADRES Network at ICARS IIT Roorkee - Greater Noida campus (NCR) India. He was Head of Divisions - Environment, Climate and DRM, Policy-Planning and Training at NIDM, India for over 13 years. He was Programme Director of CECR and several projects, viz. High-CAP, CAP-RES, NADMP, NEFC-DMP, HER-CAP, and was Head of International Cooperation. He was Expert Team Member of WMO Climate Statement and South Asia Core-Group Member of IUCN-CEM. He is principal editor of the Springer-Nature Book series on Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. He was recipient of the National Science Day Young Scientist Award, Excellence Award by the SEOH, IDRC Canadas Thank Tank Initiative Senior Fellowship, Outstanding Contribution Award of UN-PEDRR, and the recent one - WCDM DRR Award for Disaster Preparedness. Prof. Gupta is popularly known as NBS man of India, is founder of SAMYUKTI-ICARSS and 'Accelerating Transformation' group. Rogert Sorķ is a senior researcher at the Environmental Research Group (EPhyslab), University of Vigo, Spain. He holds a BSc in Meteorology (2010) from the Higher Institute of Technology and Applied Sciences (InSTEC), Havana, Cuba, an MSc in Climate Sciences (2012), and a PhD in Marine Sciences (2018), both from the University of Vigo. His research focuses on climatology, particularly the occurrence and attribution of extreme hydrometeorological events, such as droughts and intense rainfall, exploring the origin of precipitation and the influence of the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle on these phenomena.
