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SUMMARY:Atmospheric chemistry\, aerosols and climate change interactions: 
 reducing the uncertainty
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DESCRIPTION:Christos Fountoukis\nHealth problems due to air pollution and 
 the potential detrimental effects of climate change are among the most imp
 ortant current challenges in Atmospheric Science. Air quality is continuou
 sly deteriorating in large urban environments and is estimated to cause mo
 re than 2 million premature deaths each year with fine particles and eleva
 ted ozone responsible for most of the adverse health effects. Meanwhile  q
 uantifying the effect of aerosols on the planet’s radiative balance is a
 n urgent task in our efforts to understand and predict future climate chan
 ge.  To address our progress in these areas  I will be focusing on three m
 ain directions of my research: i) Modeling the chemical transformations of
  atmospheric constituents on a regional scale with a special focus on the 
 organic part of particulate matter currently being the least understood co
 mponent of ambient aerosol  ii) Quantifying the contributions of the vario
 us aerosol sources  the role of long-range transport  and the contribution
  of primary and secondary particulate matter to the ambient aerosol mass/n
 umber concentrations  all quite unknown to date  causing high uncertainty 
 in predictions of particulate mass and chemical composition on a regional 
 and global scale  and iii) Studying aerosol – cloud interactions through
  modeling and experimental work for a better assessment of the indirect cl
 imatic effect of aerosols. 
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