We are delighted to share with you a selection of the papers which will be presented at our Faraday Discussion on Atmospheric chemistry in the Anthropocene taking place in York, UK in May 2017. More information about the event may be found here: http://rsc.li/anthropocene-fd2017. Additional articles will be added to the collection as they are published. The final versions of all the articles presented and a record of the live discussions will be published after the event.

Human activities have greatly impacted the Earth system so much so that it has ushered in a new epoch - the Anthropocene. The consequent changes - observed and predicted – occur in the oceans, the terrestrial regions, and the biosphere, and have raised important societal issues such as climate change, ocean acidification, air quality degradation, and ozone layer depletion. This Discussion focuses on emerging issues such as interactions between anthropogenic and biogenic emissions, new mechanisms important for atmospheric chemistry, the impacts of climate on air quality, and new instrumental tools and platforms for atmospheric chemistry.

Themed collection Atmospheric chemistry in the Anthropocene

List of participants

Poster list

Clean air in the Anthropocene

Introductory lecture: atmospheric chemistry in the Anthropocene

Products of Criegee intermediate reactions with NO₂: experimental measurements and tropospheric implications

Impact on short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) from a realistic land-use change scenario via changes in biogenic emissions

Ambient and laboratory observations of organic ammonium salts in PM₁

Using advanced mass spectrometry techniques to fully characterize atmospheric organic carbon: current capabilities and remaining gaps

Vehicle emissions of short-lived and long-lived climate forcers: trends and tradeoffs

Observational constraints on particle acidity using measurements and modelling of particles and gases

Atmospheric protein chemistry influenced by anthropogenic air pollutants: nitration and oligomerization upon exposure to ozone and nitrogen dioxide

Detection and identification of Criegee intermediates from the ozonolysis of biogenic and anthropogenic VOCs: comparison between experimental measurements and theoretical calculations

Interfacial photochemistry of biogenic surfactants: a major source of abiotic volatile organic compounds

Investigation of the reaction of ozone with isoprene, methacrolein and methyl vinyl ketone using the HELIOS chamber

Aerosol climate change effects on land ecosystem services

The effect of gas-phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on the formation and properties of biogenic secondary organic aerosol particles

Reactive oxygen species formed in aqueous mixtures of secondary organic aerosols and mineral dust influencing cloud chemistry and public health in the Anthropocene

Upper tropospheric water vapour and its interaction with cirrus clouds as seen from IAGOS long-term routine in situ observations

Improving present day and future estimates of anthropogenic sectoral emissions and the resulting air quality impacts in Africa

Clustering approaches to improve the performance of low cost air pollution sensors

A world avoided: impacts of changes in anthropogenic emissions on the burden and effects of air pollutants in Europe and North America

Effects of halogens on European air-quality

VOC emission rates over London and South East England obtained by airborne eddy covariance

Cavity enhanced spectroscopy for measurement of nitrogen oxides in the Anthropocene: results from the Seoul tower during MAPS 2015

Accurate representations of the physicochemical properties of atmospheric aerosols: when are laboratory measurements of value?

The social cost of methane: theory and applications

Condensed-phase biogenic–anthropogenic interactions with implications for cold cloud formation

Atmospheric gas-to-particle conversion: why NPF events are observed in megacities?

The air we breathe: Past, present, and future: general discussion

Atmospheric chemistry and the biosphere: general discussion

Atmospheric chemistry processes: general discussion

New tools for atmospheric chemistry: general discussion

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