Prof Chak K Chan has been appointed as an Editor-in-Chief of Atmospheric Environment. The journal will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009. Prof. Chan is the 8th Editor-in-Chief appointed by the journal and the first appointed outside the U.S. and Europe.  He will join Prof. Peter Brimblecombe of the University of East Anglia, U.K. and Dr. Hanwant Singh of the NASA Ames Research Center, USA, in this editorial role. Atmospheric Environment publishes over 700 papers in 2007.

Atmospheric Environment is an Elsevier journal focusing on air pollution research and its applications.  It publishes papers with novel results based on experiments, theory and modeling of the atmosphere extending from the scale of buildings and streets to the globe. The main aim of Atmospheric Environment is to provide a scientific understanding of the consequences of natural and human-induced perturbations of the earth’s atmosphere. Areas covered include air pollution research and its applications, air quality and its effects, dispersion and transport, deposition, biospheric - atmospheric exchange, atmospheric chemistry and induced changes in radiation and climate.