Researchers from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute (UHMI, Kyiv, Ukraine), the PEEX collaborator, published a chapter entitled “Role of Natural Disasters and Anthropogenic Upheavals in Complex Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions and Feedbacks” in Springer book series “Nexus of Sustainability”.

This book “emphasizes the need for harmonized policies and adaptive strategies that can address the complexities of local, national, and global systems simultaneously. The interconnected challenges of our time – climate change, resource depletion, systemic risks, and socio-economic inequalities – demand a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to sustainable development”. This book (1) explores the complex interplay among food, energy, water, social, and environmental systems; (2) discusses stochastic optimization, machine learning, distributed model linkage, and robust estimation methods; (3) examines how the pandemic and related quarantine restrictions intensified socio-economic challenges in Ukraine.

This chapter (Savenets et al. 2026) in this book describes a compilation of studies based on remote sensing data and the seamless Enviro-HIRLAM modeling results, examining how atmospheric aerosols, influenced by natural and anthropogenic processes, impact local and regional meteorological conditions. It is focused on the aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam destruction and the drying of its reservoir, which formed a new aerosol emission source; the impact of wildfires and biomass-burning aerosols on atmospheric processes; and how aerosols intensify the adverse effects of heat waves.

The presented results were partially obtained withing the framework of the HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access Programme during the implementation of projects “Integrated Modelling and Analysis of Influence of Land Cover Changes on Regional Weather Conditions/ Patterns” (MALAWE, HPC17ENAVF) and “Integrated modelling for assessment of potential pollution regional atmospheric transport as result of accidental wildfires” (IMA-WFires, HPC17TRLGW) (https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/index.php/mp-europa3). The Center for Science Computing (CSC; https://csc.fi; Helsinki, Finland) is acknowledged for computational resources for the model simulations.

References:
Savenets et al. (2026) – Savenets, M., Pysarenko, L., Nadtochii, L., Osadchyi, V. (2026). Role of Natural Disasters and Anthropogenic Upheavals in Complex Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions and Feedbacks. pp. 521-545. In: Zagorodny, A., Bogdanov, V., Zaporozhets, A., Ermolieva, T. (eds) Nexus of Sustainability. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 627. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03616-2_22

Text by: M. Savenets, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute (UHMI, Kyiv, Ukraine)