DOE Atmospheric Sciences Program (ASP) Meeting

19-21 March 2002

Albuquerque, NM

The primary goals of this meeting were to report progress, improve scientific collaborations within and among components of the ASP, and discuss research directions, including cooperative efforts with programs of agencies other than DOE.

Agenda and Presentations

Tuesday, March 19

0830: Welcome - Marv Wesely

0840: Status of DOE's Atmospheric Science Program - Peter Lunn

0910: Atmospheric science from hell: Wildfire as weather - Howard Hanson, LANL

0955: Break

Overviews of Recent Field Campaigns

1015: TexAQS 2000 summary - Pete Daum

1045: Overview of Phoenix 2001 study - J. Chris Doran

1115: Nighttime chemistry of nitrogen oxides: Measurements of vertical trace gas gradients during the Phoenix 2001 study - Jochen Stutz, R. Ackermann, and S. Wang

1135: Highlights of the Pacific Northwest 2001 (PNW2001) aircraft campaign - Len Barrie, Tom Jobson, and R. Barchet

1205: Lunch

Aerosol Research Session

1330: Air Quality measurements in the Southeastern Research and Characterization (SEARCH) Study - Alan Hansen, EPRI

1355: Measurements of single particle size and composition during TexAQS 2000 - Dan Imre, A. Zelenyuk, G. Buzorius, R. Mugno, and P. Imerich

1415: Sampling artifacts: significance in organic aerosol carbon determination - Tom Kirchstetter and T. Novakov

1435: Aerosol formation from atmospheric organics - John Seinfeld

1455: Aerosol chemical characterization on the DOE G1 during TexAQS 2000 - Yin-Nan Lee, Z. Song, Y. Liu, S. Springston, L. Nunnermacker, P. Daum, R. Weber, D. Orsini, N. Laulainen, J. Hubbe, and V. Morris

1515: Break

1535: Progress on integrating an atmospheric chemistry model and aerosol model: Approximations and current results - Joyce Penner, Y. Feng, M. Herzog, and A. Itoh

1555: Modeling of local deposition and long-range transport for the Pacific Basin - Rong Lu and R. Turco

1615: Moment-based representation of sulfate aerosol in the eastern United States and comparison with observations - S. Yu, P.S. Kasibhatla, D.L. Wright, Steve Schwartz, R. McGraw and A. Deng

1635: Kinetics of submicron oleic acid aerosols with ozone; a novel aerosol mass spectrometric technique - J. W. Morris, Paul Davidovits, J. T. Jayne, J. L. Jimenez, Q. Shi, C. E. Kolb, D. R. Worsnop, W. S. Barney and G. Cass

1655: Chemical and physical properties of ammonium sulfate/organic aerosols - Margaret Tolbert, J. Shilling, S. Brooks, T. Fortin and B. Garland

Wednesday, March 20

Atmospheric Chemistry Session

0815: Announcements

0820: Overview activities of the National Institute of Global Environmental Change - Ruth Reck, Univ. of California, Davis

0840: Atmospheric ozone production potentials - Donald Blake, Univ. of California, Irvine

0900: Ozone production rates and efficiencies in five urban areas - Larry Kleinman, P. Daum. D. Imre, Y.-N. Lee, L. Nunnermacker, S. Springston, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

0920: Measurements of nonmethane hydrocarbons in several urban areas - Paul Doskey and V. R. Kotamarthi

0940: Progress in trace gas detection methods - Judith Lloyd

1000: Break

1020: PAN, natural radioactivity, and other data sets: Summary of recent field activities - Jeff Gaffney and N. A. Marley

1040: Atmospheric chemistry of selected polycyclic aromatic compounds - Janet Arey;   Kinetics of OH radical reactions with VOCs - Roger Atkinson

1100: Multiplying factors for bromine destruction of ozone - Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, L. Wingen and W. Wang

1120: The role of heterogeneous chemistry in the photochemical oxidant cycle: A modeling and laboratory study - Vicki Grassian and Greg Carmichael

1140: Report from the Mass Accommodation Workshop - Doug Worsnop

1200: Lunch

Environmental Meteorology Program/Vertical Transport and Mixing Experiments Session

1330: The performance of mesoscale models at sub-kilometer grid spacing and implications for air quality modeling for urban valleys - Jerome Fast

1400: Vertical mixing in the afternoon transitional boundary layer - Will Shaw

1430: Measurement and improved understanding of vertical transport and the evaluation of these processes in mesoscale models - Dave Parsons

1500: What can we learn from turbulent flow simulations in complex terrain - Eric Skyllingstad

1500: Break

1520: The detection and description of elevated stable layers above the Salt Lake City Utah Basin - Rich Coulter

1540: Tracer and meteorological experiment in Salt Lake City in October 2000 for the Chem-Bio Program - Marty Leach, LLNL

Atmospheric Chemistry Session

1600: Report from modeling focus group; emissions inventories needs - V. Rao Kotamarthi and L. Kleinman

1620: Fast Local and Regional-Scale Processes on Ozone in Philadelphia during the 1999 NE-OPS Field Campaign - Jerome Fast

1640: Modeling regional to national ozone budgets with a special emphasis on Phoenix 2001: The role of transport, chemical production, and deposition - Cyndi Atherton, D. Bergmann, P. Cameron-Smith, P. Connell, J. Dignon, A. Franz, C. Molenkamp, D. Rotman, J. Tannahill

1700: Effects of biogenic isoprene emissions on ozone formation in the Eastern United States - Yiwen (Amy) Xu and M. Wesely

Thursday, March 21

Session on Field Campaigns

0815: Review of G-1 schedule - Rich Barchet

0845: Overview of advances in instrumentation for field observations - Stephen Springston

0910: Ideas on future aerosol research and isoprene flux observations - Paul Doskey

0930: Airborne research platform functionality - Rich Barchet

0945: Blimps as research platforms - Rahul Zaveri

1000: Break

1020: NAOPEX and NEAQS/AIRMAP 2002/2004 - Carl Berkowitz and Pete Daum

1050: Aerodyne AMS testing - Doug Worsnop

1105: ACP participation in ARM aerosol IOP - Marv Wesely and Steve Schwartz

1120: SERDP-Norfolk, VA, study - Chet Spicer

1130: Puerto Rico update: Some preliminary results and plans for modeling - Jeff Gaffney, N. Marley, P. Doskey, and V. R. Kotamarthi

1145: Winter Transport - Pete Daum

1210: Meeting Adjourns