AMS Clinic4

This page is a repository of information for planning the 4th AMS Clinic and the 1st Aerodyne CIMS Meeting and Clinic (March 2012). A shorcut to this page is http://tinyurl.com/AMSClinic4

Dates and Location

The 4th AMS Instrument and Data Analysis Clinic and 1st Aerodyne CIMS Meeting and Clinic will take place in the Spring of 2012 at the University of Colorado-Boulder. It will be organized by the Jimenez Group and Aerodyne. We will post information here as it becomes available.

The schedule for the meetings will be:

• Sun March 25: AMS Hardware tutorial & Q&A (starting 9am, with an AMS in the room)
• Mon March 26: 1st day of AMS (Squirrel and PIKA)
• Tue March 27: 2nd day of AMS (User issues, PMF errors)
• Wed March 28: PMF of AMS data (Discuss user cases) (CIMS users may be interested to sit in): ARI dinner
• Thu March 29: 1st day of CIMS: Talks and discussion / In parallel AMS last day (User questions or ACSM sub-meeting)
• Fri March 30: 2nd day of CIMS
• Sat March 31: 3rd day of CIMS
• Sun April 1: small group CIMS meetings as needed / hiking or skiing for interested folks

AMS only users may want to come Sun-Thu, or a subset of those days, while CIMS-only users will come Wed-Sun, or a subset of those days. Pls fill this Doodle Poll with the dates you are planning to attend. (Mark them with "(yes)" if tentative).

Details on 4th AMS Clinic

The people who should attend the AMS Clinic are those who are directly doing (or are VERY involved in directly supervising) AMS data analysis of field or lab data. The clinic will be much less useful for PIs who are not directly involved in data analysis, or for people who are just starting to learn about the AMS but haven't done serious data analysis yet. Attendees are expected to bring to the Clinic datasets in which they are currently working, and be ready to use them as a basis for discussion with the group.

As planned, this is "out of phase" with the AMS Users Meeting and the heavy Fall meeting season (AAAR, EAC, AMS Users Meeting, AGU...).

There is no registration fee, but please let us know if you are coming to plan food, coffee, tables, power, internet, name tags, hotel room block, etc.

Feedback from past Clinics has been very positive overall, and you can see the details for 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Details of 1st CIMS Meeting and Clinic

• Thursday morning: Status
  • Joel K, 60m: status of the instrument
  • Harald & Mike, 60m: status of data analysis software
  • Joel K, 20m: Resources of the Community (manuals, web page, email list)
  • Plans of the different users (to maximize collaboration and minimize duplication or conflict), 60m

• Thursday afternoon: Science & technique presentations (to be confirmed by speakers)
  • • Joel Thornton: CIMS, MOVI, London...
    • Tim Bertram: CalNex etc.
    • Jim Roberts: acid CIMS etc.
    • Joost de Gouw: PTRMS vs H3O+ CIMS etc.
    • Mikael Ehn: new APCI source, chamber w/ acetate
    • Doug Worsnop: ambient ions
    • Reddy: BEACHON-RoMBAS
    • Jim Smith: nanoparticle CIMS applications

• Friday: use
  • Use of acetate (120m)
    • Best practices
    • Advantages and limits
  • Use of H+ transfer (90m)
  • Plans for other reagent ions (30m)
  • Gas-phase calibrations (60m)

• Friday afternoon:
  • John Jayne & Felipe, 60m: status of MOVI
  • Particle-phase calibrations, 90m
  • HR analysis and peak list, 90m
  • Backgrounds, 60m

• Saturday
  • Overflow of topics from previous days
  • Harald: Data analysis tutorial w/ actual dataset (180m)
  • Clinic (users bring up issues & questions w/ their own instrument operation & data analysis)
    • High-resolution analysis discussion
  • Open Mike: short presentations of results, ideas, etc.

• Sunday: small group CIMS meetings as needed / hiking or skiing for interested folks

Attendees

• If you may be interested in attending the AMS Clinic, you should add yourself to the AMS Clinic Email List.

• The list of attendees is kept on this Doodle Poll. This Poll will be the official list of attendees, so please remember to update it if your plans change. If you would like to attend but are not sure yet, please enter the "(Yes)" option (it'll show up in yellow in the poll) and update the entries later when your plans become solid either way.