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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.
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This is the web page for the Atmospheric Chemistry II Course at CU-Boulder (CHEM/ATOC-5152). It was first offered in Spring 2015. So far it has been taught by Profs. Paul Ziemann, Joost de Gouw, and Jose-Luis Jimenez.
  
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== Topics for Spring 2015 ==
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* Fundamentals of radical chemistry and ozone formation in the troposphere (Jose + Paul)
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== Organizational Info for Spring 2017 ==
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** [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/AtmChem/2013/L5151_7_Trop_Oxidation.pdf Notes on the topic from 5151]
 
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** [http://www.igorexchange.com/project/KinSim KinSim kinetics simulator]
 
  
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* Secondary Organic Aerosol formation mechanisms (Paul)
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* The class meets Tue & Thu 9:30-10:45 am
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** Reading: [http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2012/CS/c2cs35122f Atkinson & Ziemann SOA review]
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWlD5_B85l4HT-fGU7FfbGj3amDlkPLjIV1ENf83nY0/pub Syllabus] & [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5b3HAA2wM7XxJdOVVDG_DLPjdknWnfRHWf7cQspynU/pubhtml?gid=353274601&single=true Course Schedule]
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* Suggested textbooks: [http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/index.html Jacob], Finlayson-Pitts & Pitts, Seinfeld & Pandis
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* [https://www.wavemetrics.com/support/demos.htm Igor 7 installation] & [http://tinyurl.com/kinsim-help KinSim]
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* [http://tinyurl.com/CHEM-5152-hw Homeworks] & [http://tinyurl.com/ac-cheat2 Atm. Chem. Cheat Sheet]
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* [https://piazza.com/colorado/spring2017/chem5152atoc5152/home Piazza system for Q&A]
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* Office Hrs: 15 min before and after each lecture (in the classroom or Jose's Office), or by appointment
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** [http://tinyurl.com/j-class-sched Spreadsheet to find best times for office hours or additional meetings]
  
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* Aerosol mechanics
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== Topics, Lecture Notes, and Readings ==
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** Size distributions
 
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** Condensation / evaporation and coagulation
 
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** Gas/particle partitioning and VBS
 
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** Diffusion and in-particle reactions
 
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** Aerosol loss mechanisms and inlets
 
  
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* Introduction to Chambers and Reactors
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Note: this list contains material from several course offerings and several professors. There could be some redundancy, and not all topics are covered at the same depth every year.
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** Large Environmental Chambers
 
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** Oxidation Flow Reactors
 
  
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* Introduction to Aerosol Instrumentation
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=== Introductory Material ===
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** SMPS and CPC
 
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** AMS and TDPBMS
 
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*** Reading: [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/Papers/DeCarlo_HRToFAMS_complete_published.pdf HR-ToF-AMS paper] & TDPBMS paper
 
  
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* Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (CIMS) (Jose)
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* Reading:
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** Fundamentals and reaction mechanisms
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** [http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap1.pdf Chapter 1: Measures of Atmospheric Composition from Jacob]
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** Properties of key CIMS systems: H3O+, acetate, I-, NO3-
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=== Box models & Kinetics, Radical Chemistry, Tropospheric O3 Formation ===
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/1_Intro_BoxMod_O3_OH.pdf Lecture Notes]
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* Reading (required unless marked otherwise):
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**[http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap3.pdf Chapter 3: Simple Models from Jacob]
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**[http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap9.pdf Chapter 9: Chemical Kinetics from Jacob]
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**[http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap11.pdf Chapter 11: Oxidizing Power of the Troposphere from Jacob] (Read from start till end of section 11.3.2.)
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**[http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap11.pdf Chapter 12: Ozone Air Pollution from Jacob]
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**[https://royalsociety.org/policy/publications/2008/ground-level-ozone/ RSC Report on O3 formation] (some sections suggested)
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**[http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2012/cs/c2cs35181a Brown and Stutz Review on Nighttime Chemistry]
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* Tool: [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez-group/software/KinSim/KinSim_v3.0.ipf KinSim v3.0 kinetics simulator] & [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez-group/software/KinSim/KinSim_v3.0_help.ifn KinSim help file]
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=== Photolysis ===
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/2_Photolysis.pdf Lecture Notes]
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* Reading:
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** [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Read/FP_Ch3_spec_photochem.pdf FP Chapter 3: Spectroscopy and Photochemistry]
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** [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Read/FP_Ch4_Photochem.pdf FP Chapter 4: Photochemistry of Important Atmos. Molec.]
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=== VOC oxidation & Secondary Organic Aerosol formation mechanisms ===
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/3_Organic.pdf Lecture Notes]
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* Reading:
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** [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Read/FP_Ch6_Organic_Chem.pdf FP Chapter 6 on Organic Atmospheric Chemistry]
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** [http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2012/CS/c2cs35122f Atkinson & Ziemann SOA review]
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** [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/AtmChem/Jacobson_Table_B.pdf Table of Relevant Chemical Structures] (From [http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Atmospheric-Modeling-Professor-Jacobson/dp/0521548659 Jacobson])
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=== Aerosols, Condensation, Partitioning ===
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/4_Condensation_Part.pdf Lect. notes]
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* Aerosol loss mechanisms and inlets
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** [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Code/Aerocalc_Original.xls Aerosol Calculator] by Paul Baron
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** [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ac5042395 Knopf et al., 2015]: "Radial Diffusion and Penetration of Gas Molecules and Aerosol Particles through Laminar Flow Reactors, Denuders, and Sampling Tubes"
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* Reading
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** [http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook/bookchap8.pdf Ch. 8: Aerosols] from Jacob
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** [http://cires1.colorado.edu/jimenez/AtmChem/SP_7.pdf S&P Chapter 7 on size distributions]
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* Reading on Organic Partitioning
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** [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/1352231094900930 Pankow 1994 on Absorptive Partitioning Theory]
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** [http://user.engineering.uiowa.edu/~cs_proj/publications/donahue_coupled_dilution_as_published.pdf Donahue 2006 on Volatility Basis Set for Partitioning]
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** [http://cires1.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Read/DonahueAAARTutorial.2007.pdf Donahue 2007 AAAR Tutorial on VBS]
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** [http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/2773/2008/acp-8-2773-2008.html Pankow & Asher 2008: SIMPOL structure-volatility relationships]
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=== Nucleation ===
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/Nucleation.pdf Lecture notes on nucleation] (guest lecture from Alessandro Franchin, NOAA)
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* Reading: [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7604/abs/nature18271.html Trostl et al., 2016]
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=== Chambers and Reactors ===
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* Large Environmental Chambers
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/Flow_Reactors.pdf Introduction to Flow Reactors]
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* Reading:
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** [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02786826.2013.804621 Aimamant and Ziemann (2013)] on SOA formation from Pentadecane + OH
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=== Key Instrumentation ===
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* SMPS and CPC
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/Aerosol_MS.pdf Aerosol Mass Spectrometry]
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** Reading: [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/Papers/DeCarlo_HRToFAMS_complete_published.pdf HR-ToF-AMS paper]
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* Thermal Desorption Particle Beam Mass Spectrometry
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* [http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/CHEM-5152/Lect/CIMS.pdf Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (CIMS)] (Jose)
 
** Reading: [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es500362a I- ToF-CIMS paper]
 
** Reading: [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es500362a I- ToF-CIMS paper]
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=== Other possible topics ===
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* Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) and use of the PET and/or ME-2 software tools
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* Introduction to analysis of actual data from instruments (e.g. AMS or CIMS with Igor packages)
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* Other topics of direct research-related interest to students and their advisors
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== Award for Best Grade in the Course ==
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* Spring 2017: Benjamin Demming (CHEM, Ziemann group)
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* Spring 2015: Demetrios Pagonis (CHEM, Ziemann group)

Latest revision as of 10:40, 11 May 2017

This is the web page for the Atmospheric Chemistry II Course at CU-Boulder (CHEM/ATOC-5152). It was first offered in Spring 2015. So far it has been taught by Profs. Paul Ziemann, Joost de Gouw, and Jose-Luis Jimenez.

Organizational Info for Spring 2017

Topics, Lecture Notes, and Readings

Note: this list contains material from several course offerings and several professors. There could be some redundancy, and not all topics are covered at the same depth every year.

Introductory Material

Box models & Kinetics, Radical Chemistry, Tropospheric O3 Formation

Photolysis

VOC oxidation & Secondary Organic Aerosol formation mechanisms

Aerosols, Condensation, Partitioning

  • Aerosol loss mechanisms and inlets
    • Aerosol Calculator by Paul Baron
    • Knopf et al., 2015: "Radial Diffusion and Penetration of Gas Molecules and Aerosol Particles through Laminar Flow Reactors, Denuders, and Sampling Tubes"

Nucleation

Chambers and Reactors

Key Instrumentation

  • Thermal Desorption Particle Beam Mass Spectrometry

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

Award for Best Grade in the Course

  • Spring 2017: Benjamin Demming (CHEM, Ziemann group)
  • Spring 2015: Demetrios Pagonis (CHEM, Ziemann group)
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