AtmChem-5152

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This is the web page for the Atmospheric Chemistry II Course at CU-Boulder (CHEM/ATOC-5152). It will be co-taught by Profs. Paul Ziemann and Jose-Luis Jimenez in Spring 2015 under the name CHEM-6111 (Special Topics in Analytical Chemistry), while the formal course will be created later.

Organizational Info for Spring 2015

Topics for Spring 2015 (Ongoing and Already Covered)

Topics for Spring 2015 (Future)

  • Aerosol mechanics
    • Size distributions
    • Condensation / evaporation and coagulation
    • Gas/particle partitioning and VBS
    • Diffusion and in-particle reactions
    • Aerosol loss mechanisms and inlets
  • Introduction to Chambers and Reactors
    • Large Environmental Chambers
    • Oxidation Flow Reactors
  • Introduction to Aerosol Instrumentation
  • Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (CIMS) (Jose)
    • Fundamentals and reaction mechanisms
      • Predicting reaction rates
    • Properties of key CIMS systems: H3O+, acetate, I-, NO3-
    • PTRMS (Joost de Gouw)
    • Reading: I- ToF-CIMS paper
  • Other possible topics
    • Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) and use of the PET and/or ME-2 software tools
    • Introduction to analysis of actual data from instruments (e.g. AMS or CIMS with Igor packages)
    • Other topics of direct research-related interest to students and their advisors