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Mihaela Mircea is affiliated with the National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and atmospheric sciences, with a significant body of work related to air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and the health impacts of atmospheric pollutants.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change

Mihaela Mircea's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Urban Green Space and Health

The scientist has authored several papers in important venues, including:

  • "The potential impact of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from terrestrial vegetation on a Mediterranean area using two different emission models," 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "European guide on air pollution source apportionment for particulate matter with source oriented models and their combined use with receptor models," 2020, Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • "Evaluation of air quality forecasting system FORAIR-IT over Europe and Italy at high resolution for year 2017," 2022, Atmospheric Pollution Research
  • "Measured and modelled air quality trends in Italy over the period 2003-2010," 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Assessment of Air Quality and Meteorological Changes Induced by Future Vegetation in Madrid," 2022, Forests

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Gino Briganti
  • Massimo D'Isidoro
  • Sandro Finardi
  • Mario Adani
  • Ilaria D'Elia

Mihaela Mircea regularly publishes in journals such as:

  • Forests
  • Atmosphere
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric Pollution Research

Best Publications

  • Biogenically driven organic contribution to marine aerosol.

    Colin D. O'Dowd;Maria Cristina Facchini;Fabrizia Cavalli;Darius Ceburnis

  • Cloud albedo enhancement by surface-active organic solutes in growing droplets

    Maria Cristina Facchini;Mihaela Mircea;Sandro Fuzzi;Robert J. Charlson

  • Primary submicron marine aerosol dominated by insoluble organic colloids and aggregates

    Maria Cristina Facchini;Matteo Rinaldi;Stefano Decesari;Claudio Carbone

  • Advances in characterization of size-resolved organic matter in marine aerosol over the North Atlantic

    F. Cavalli;M.C. Facchini;S. Decesari;Mihaela Mircea

  • Important source of marine secondary organic aerosol from biogenic amines.

    Maria Cristina Facchini;Stefano Decesari;Matteo Rinaldi;Claudio Carbone

  • Hygroscopic growth and critical supersaturations for mixed aerosol particles of inorganic and organic compounds of atmospheric relevance

    B. Svenningsson;J. Rissler;E. Swietlicki;M. Mircea

  • Surface tension of atmospheric wet aerosol and cloud/fog droplets in relation to their organic carbon content and chemical composition

    Maria Cristina Facchini;Stefano Decesari;Mihaela Mircea;Sandro Fuzzi

  • Chemical features and seasonal variation of fine aerosol water-soluble organic compounds in the Po Valley, Italy

    S. Decesari;M.C. Facchini;E. Matta;F. Lettini

  • Water soluble organic compounds formed by oxidation of soot

    S. Decesari;M.C. Facchini;E. Matta;Mihaela Mircea

  • Characterization of the organic composition of aerosols from Rondonia, Brazil, during the LBA-SMOCC 2002 experiment and its representation through model compounds

    S Decesari;S. Fuzzi;M. C. Facchini;M. Mircea

  • Nucleation and growth of new particles in Po Valley, Italy

    A. Hamed;J. Joutsensaari;S. Mikkonen;L. Sogacheva

  • Regulating Ecosystem Services of forests in ten Italian Metropolitan Cities: Air quality improvement by PM10 and O3 removal

    Fausto Manes;F. Marando;G. Capotorti;Carlo Blasi

  • A simplified model of the water soluble organic component of atmospheric aerosols

    S. Fuzzi;S. Decesari;M.C. Facchini;E. Matta

  • Impacts of air pollution on human and ecosystem health, and implications for the National Emission Ceilings Directive: Insights from Italy.

    A. De Marco;C. Proietti;A. Anav;Luisella Ciancarella

  • Presentation of the EURODELTA III intercomparison exercise-evaluation of the chemistry transport models' performance on criteria pollutants and joint analysis with meteorology

    Bertrand Bessagnet;Guido Pirovano;Mihaela Mircea;Cornelius Cuvelier

  • Precipitation scavenging coefficient: influence of measured aerosol and raindrop size distributions

    Mihaela Mircea;Sabina Stefan;Sandro Fuzzi

  • Importance of the organic aerosol fraction for modeling aerosol hygroscopic growth and activation: a case study in the Amazon Basin

    M Mircea;MC Facchini;S Decesari;F Cavalli

  • Mass closure on the chemical species in size-segregated atmospheric aerosol collected in an urban area of the Po Valley, Italy

    E. Matta;M.C. Facchini;S. Decesari;Mihaela Mircea

  • Assessment of the AMS-MINNI system capabilities to simulate air quality over Italy for the calendar year 2005

    Mihaela Mircea;Luisella Ciancarella;Gino Briganti;G. Calori

  • The influence of the organic aerosol component on CCN supersaturation spectra for different aerosol types

    Mihaela Mircea;Maria Cristina Facchini;Stefano Decesari;Sandro Fuzzi

  • Surface tensions of multi-component mixed inorganic/organic aqueous systems of atmospheric significance: measurements, model predictions and importance for cloud activation predictions

    D.O. Topping;G.B. McFiggans;G. Kiss;Z. Varga

  • Evaluation of receptor and chemical transport models for PM10 source apportionment

    C.A. Belis;D. Pernigotti;G. Pirovano;O. Favez

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandro Fuzzi
Sandro Fuzzi Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Maria Cristina Facchini
Maria Cristina Facchini Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Stefano Decesari
Stefano Decesari Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Svetlana Tsyro
Svetlana Tsyro Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Bertrand Bessagnet
Bertrand Bessagnet École Normale Supérieure
Hilde Fagerli
Hilde Fagerli Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Augustin Colette
Augustin Colette Stanford University
Mark R. Theobald
Mark R. Theobald Technical University of Madrid
Robert Bergström
Robert Bergström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Colin D. O'Dowd
Colin D. O'Dowd University of Galway

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