Courses on Air Quality

9 - 11 September 2013 - Fundamentals of Air Quality and Climate Change

12 September 2013 - Nitrogen Compounds in the Troposphere

To be held at Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, UK

Presented by: Viney P Aneja, North Carolina State University, USA

Organised by: Wessex Institute of Technology, UK

Both parts of this course can either be taken individually or together for which a discount will apply.

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 Course Programme

Monday 9 September 2013

  • Overview of the Global Atmosphere 
    Density, Pressure, Temperature, and Chemical Constituents
  • Origin of the Earth’s Atmosphere
    Formation and Evolution of the Earth System
  • Sun-Earth Relationships 
    Rotation of Earth and time zones, Revolution around the Sun, Seasons, Cycle of Sun's declination, and Solar Constant
  • Atmospheric Transport 
    Geostrophic flow; The General Circulation; Vertical Transport; and Turbulence

 

Tuesday 10 September 2013

  • Radiation Budget of the Atmosphere 
    Solar Zenith angle; Wavelength and frequency; Blackbody radiation; Stefan-Boltzmann law; Wien’s displacement Law; Scattering, absorption and extinction
  • Air Quality Modeling and Chemical Kinetics 
    Rate law; fundamentals of reaction kinetics; rate constant
  • Atmospheric Chemistry
    Sources, and Sinks of Trace Gases, Hydroxyl Radical, Reactive Nitrogen, Carbon, and Sulfur Compounds
  • Tropospheric Ozone
    Formation, chemistry and distribution

 

Wednesday 11 September 2013

  • Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace gases 
    The hydrologic cycle, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycle
  • Stratospheric Ozone and the Ozone Hole
    Anthropogenic perturbations to stratospheric ozone
  • Atmospheric Aerosols
    Sources, chemical composition, Transport, sinks, chemical composition, and size distribution
  • Global Climate Change
    The buildup of greenhouse gases; increased concentration of aerosols Global temperature and rainfall distributions; interactions of air quality on climate (direct and indirect effects); El Nino; radiative forcing

 

Nitrogen Compounds in the Troposphere

Optional One-day Course

 

Thursday 12 September 2013

  • Importance of Nitrogen Compounds in Air Quality
  • Types of Nitrogen Compounds
  • Reaction Rates in the Atmosphere and Nitrogen Compound Lifetimes
  • Nitrogen Biogeochemical Processes
  • Agricultural Emissions (Crop and Animal) of Nitrogen Compounds, and Emission Factors
  • Atmospheric Chemistry of Nitrogen Compounds (Ozone and Particulate Matter)
  • Importance of Nitrogen Compounds in Regulations and Policy for Air Quality.

 


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