AtmChem-5152

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

• The class meets Tue & Thu 9:30-10:45 am
• Syllabus & Course Schedule
• Suggested textbooks: Jacob, Finlayson-Pitts & Pitts, Seinfeld & Pandis
• Igor 7 installation & KinSim
• Homeworks & Atm. Chem. Cheat Sheet
• Piazza system for Q&A
• Office Hrs: 15 min before and after each lecture (in the classroom or Jose's Office), or by appointment
  • Spreadsheet to find best times for office hours or additional meetings

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

• Reading:
  • Chapter 1: Measures of Atmospheric Composition from Jacob

Box models & Kinetics, Radical Chemistry, Tropospheric O3 Formation

• Lecture Notes

• Reading (required unless marked otherwise):
  • Chapter 3: Simple Models from Jacob
  • Chapter 9: Chemical Kinetics from Jacob
  • Chapter 11: Oxidizing Power of the Troposphere from Jacob (Read from start till end of section 11.3.2.)
  • Chapter 12: Ozone Air Pollution from Jacob
  • RSC Report on O3 formation (some sections suggested)

• Tool: KinSim v3.0 kinetics simulator & KinSim help file

Photolysis

• Lecture Notes

• Reading:
  • FP Chapter 3: Spectroscopy and Photochemistry
  • FP Chapter 4: Photochemistry of Important Atmos. Molec.

VOC oxidation & Secondary Organic Aerosol formation mechanisms

• Lecture Notes

• Reading:
  • FP Chapter 6 on Organic Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Atkinson & Ziemann SOA review
  • Table of Relevant Chemical Structures (From Jacobson)

Aerosols, Condensation, Partitioning

• Lect. notes on gas-particle partitioning, size distributions, condensation / evaporation

• 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"

• Reading
  • Ch. 8: Aerosols from Jacob
  • S&P Chapter 7 on size distributions

• Reading on Organic Partitioning
  • Pankow 1994 on Absorptive Partitioning Theory
  • Donahue 2006 on Volatility Basis Set for Partitioning
  • Pankow & Asher 2008: SIMPOL structure-volatility relationships

Nucleation

• Lecture notes on nucleation (guest lecture from Alessandro Franchin, NOAA)
• Reading: Trostl et al., 2016

Chambers and Reactors

• Large Environmental Chambers
• Introduction to Flow Reactors

• Reading:
  • Aimamant and Ziemann (2013) on SOA formation from Pentadecane + OH

Key Instrumentation

• SMPS and CPC
• Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
  • Reading: HR-ToF-AMS paper

• Thermal Desorption Particle Beam Mass Spectrometry

• Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (CIMS) (Jose)
  • 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

Award for Best Grade in the Course

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