CO-CIMS

This page documents the Colorado Front Range ToF-CIMS & Related Techniques Users Meetings, started in Feb. 2017. All presentations on this page are password protected, and only shareable with people who attended the meetings (to encourage informal presentations and discussion of preliminary results). These presentations are NOT citable. If you are an attendee and need access, please email Anne Handschy

Next Meetings

• We are planning on a 1/2 day meetings every year or so.
• The 2nd meeting will take place 24-Jan-2018, 1-5:30 pm, Ekeley S274 at CU-Boulder.
• The meeting format and frequency may evolve in the future, depending on the interests of the participants.

2nd Mtg: January 2018

• This meeting took place at CU on 24 Jan 2018.
• The schedule is here
• Introduction
  • Jose L. Jimenez (University of Colorado): Intro, format, and any related discussions about this meeting
  • Harald Stark: Update on annual Aerodyne ToF-CIMS and other users meetings
• Advances in Instrumentation & software
  • Joost de Gouw (University of Colorado): VOCUS PTR
  • Mike Cubison (Tofwerk): Overview of the Tofware v3.0 data analysis software
• Sensitivity & Calibrations
  • Patrick Veres (NOAA, CIRES): IMR Pressure Regime Decisions, Consequences, and Things to Think About
  • Andy Neuman (NOAA, CIRES): IMR pressure gauge accuracy can affect sensitivity
  • Michael Link (Colorado State University): IMR pressure dependent calibrations: potential importance of reagent ion chemistry
  • Michael Link (Colorado State University): CIMS calibration intercomparison: How to compare instrument response between different instruments?
  • Harald Stark (University of Colorado, Aerodyne): Determining relative transmission factors for CIMS
• Background signals and related topics
  • Demetrios Pagonis + Benjamin Demming (University of Colorado): Gas-wall partitioning in sampling lines and instrument surfaces
  • Demetrios Pagonis (University of Colorado): Demonstration of tubing gas-wall partitioning Igor model software
  • Michael Link (Colorado State University): Fast vs slow zeros and understanding limits of detection
  • Ryan Fulgham (Colorado State University): Long-term sensitivity and background of acetate ToF-CIMS
• PMF
  • Derek Price (University of Colorado): PMF of CIMS data
  • Harald Stark (University of Colorado, Aerodyne):PMF Errors for CIMS
  • Aroob Abdelhamid (University of Colorado): PMF and error calculation for APi-ToF
• Applications
  • Matt Coggon (NOAA, CIRES): Methods for determining molecular functionality at the FIREX Fire lab

1st Mtg: February 2017

• This meeting took place at CU on 15 Feb 2017.
• The schedule is here

• Introduction
  • Jose L. Jimenez: Intro, format, and any related discussions about this meeting
  • Harald Stark Update on annual Aerodyne ToF-CIMS and other users meetings
• High-Resolution Peak Fitting Issues
  • Andy Neuman: Reasons for embracing negative peaks. I'll show examples of bias introduced by not allowing negative peaks, and discuss how to best measure compounds with mixing ratios that often approach zero
  • Ryan Fulgham: Harald's tools for peak fitting by functional group (no presentation)
  • Harald Stark: Data analysis Q&A (no presentation)
• Background signals and related topics
  • Matt Coggon: Post-Tofware Data Processing - Background Correction Procedures
  • Demetrios Pagonis: Tubing delay analysis
  • Ellie Browne: discussion on reducing backgrounds (no presentation)
• Calibrations
  • Jordan Krechmer: CIMS calibration: transmission curve and voltage scanning
  • Bin Yuan: Liquid Calibration Unit (LCU)
  • Ion Chemistry, IMR and related topics
  • Andy Neuman: Possible matrix effects with iodide ion chemistry. I'll show how the response to calibrations can depend on the background air composition.
  • Michael Link: How competitive are the rates of thermally enhanced processes and wall to gas partitioning with particle to gas partitioning using the "Aerosol CIMS" measurement technique?
  • Patrick Veres: IMR redesign tests and results
• Applications
  • Carsten Warneke: Intercomparison of I-CIMS and H3O+CIMS during FIREX Firelab
  • Harald Stark: Ambient amine measurements using protonated ethanol CIMS
  • Kanako Sekimoto: PMF analysis of Firelab data
  • Aroob Abdelhamid + Jennifer Berry: Applications of the APi-ToF
  • Patrick Veres: HCl and ClNO2 observations in Boulder via TOF CIMS and Picarro CRD