PLEASE NOTE:

Much of the science that had been planned for the Atmospheric Chemistry Program (ACP) will, in the future, be conducted under the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Science Program http://www.asp.bnl.gov. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2005, research will focus on radiative forcing of climate change by atmospheric aerosols. Please refer to the ASP web site for more information.

The overall objective of the ACP is to provide DOE with advanced information on the atmospheric environment that is required for long-range energy planning. The research is carried out primarily at four DOE laboratories and approximately twelve universities and non-DOE labs. The thrusts of this research are on regional and continental chemistry and fate of tropospheric air pollutants, extracontinental and global chemistry and fate of tropospheric air pollutants, and aerosol genesis. Laboratory studies emphasize rate and equilibrium processes. Field studies are conducted with aircraft and surface measurements on reaction chemistry, advective influences on the chemical composition of chemistry, and air-surface exchange processes. Modeling efforts address both chemistry and dynamics on regional and global scales.

ACP Projects

• 1995
• 1996
• 1998
• 2001 and 2002

The G-1 Research Aircraft

• The DOE Research Aircraft Facility
• What it Takes to Carry Out a Field Campaign (PDF)

Field Program Information

Publications by ACP Participants

Information from Past Science Meetings

Links to ACP-Related Data Sets

• Aircraft Data from the 1998 Phoenix Air Chemistry Study
• Meteorological Data from the 1998 Phoenix Air Chemistry Study
• Participation in the Northeast - Oxidant and Particle Study (NE-OPS)
• G-1 Aircraft Data from the NE-OPS 1999 Field Campaign (7/23/99 - 8/11/99), last revised 2/13/02
• Radar Profiler and Sodar Data from the 1999 Northeast - Oxidant and Particle Study (NE-OPS)
• Surface Station Data from the NE-OPS 2001 Field Campaign
• G-1 Aircraft Data from the TexAQS 2000 Field Campaign
• TexAQS 2000 Measurements
• TexAQS 2000 Radar Profiler and Sodar Data
• G-1 Aircraft Data from the Phoenix 2001 Field Campaign
• Phoenix 2001 Field Campaign Radar Profiler and Sodar Data
• G-1 Aircraft Data from the NEAQS/NAOPEX 2002 Field Campaign

Links to ACP-Related Efforts

• North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO)
• Tropospheric Aerosol Program (TAP)
• Mexico Air Quality Research Initiative
• International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project
• DOE Global Change Education Program (GCEP)

Chief Scientist
Jeffrey S. Gaffney
Bldg. 203 ER
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL 60439-4843
630-252-5178
Internet: gaffney@anl.gov

Last update: May 19, 2004

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