Air Quality

Professor Ranjeet Sokhi's research focusses on the dynamics and composition of the atmosphere with emphasis on physical and chemical processes affecting air quality and interactions with climate. He has been an advisor for the UK Governments' Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK's Public Health England (PHE) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He has been the chair of the WMOs' projects on urban science (GURME) and air quality prediction for Africa (PREFIA) for several years. He has coordinated or played a leading role in many research projects and networks funded by UKRI, European Commission and Industry as well as being a principal investigator (PI) for the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). For over two decades, Professor Sokhi was the chair of the series of International Conferences on Air Quality – Science and Application. He has published his research findings widely and has nearly 200 publications including scientific articles in major international journals and co-authored and edited several major reports and books. Currently, Professor Sokhi is the Director of the Centre for Climate Change Research (C3R) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK and a co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project FOCI on non-CO2 radiative forcers and their impacts on climate and air quality.

1. Introduction – why does air quality matter?
2. State and structure of the Atmosphere
3. Sources and emissions of air pollution
4. Chemistry of the Atmosphere
5. Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere
6. Atmospheric dynamics and weather
7. Physics of the planetary boundary layer
8. Theory of atmospheric pollution dispersion
9. Complex approaches to predict air quality and applications
10. Observations, monitoring and analysis of air quality
11. Regional and global air quality
12. Air quality trends in our cities
13. Future air quality and climate interactions
14. Indoor air quality
15. Quantitative data analysis methods with examples
16. Air quality management and policy applications
17. Air quality and health impacts
18. Air quality and the environmental impacts
19. Future challenges