| Primary Investigator |
Institutional Affiliation |
Planned Efforts |
Methodology |
|
Carroll |
University of Michigan |
Measurements of NO, NO2 and NOy (1 min.) |
Chemiluminescence/photolysis/Au catalysis |
| Measurements of O3 and CO (1-5 min.) |
UV photometer and gas filter correlation/IR absorption |
|
Bertman |
Western Michigan |
PAN compounds (PAN, PPN, MPAN, possibly PBzN with 15-30 min. resolution (intensives) and 1-2 hr. resolution (non-intensives) |
GC-ECD; whole air injection |
| Speciated alkyl nitrates; 30 min resolution |
GC-ECD; concentration on mol sieve PLOT column |
|
Brune |
Pennsylvania State |
OH, HO2, HO2/OH measurements (10^5 cm3 in 1 min.) |
Laser induced fluorescence |
|
Claiborn |
Washington State |
Total peroxides and organic peroxides, deriving hydrogen peroxide continous, 5 or 10 min. averages, level of detection nominally 0.1 ppb, precision approximately 0.5 to 1.5% |
Dual channel enzyme fluorescence |
|
Fischer |
ERIM |
Aerosol and cloud backscatter, samples at 1 min., resolution 75 m., 30 min. averages of BL mixing height and aerosol extinction |
Lidar |
|
Keeler |
University of Michigan |
HONO, HNO3, SO2, NH3 |
Impactor / Denuder / HPLC |
| Particle elemental composition |
Filter / INAA / ICP-MS / SEM-EDX |
| Particle phase nitrate, sulfate, acidity |
Denuder/filter |
| Particle size and number |
Aerodynamic particle sizer / differential mobility particle sizer |
|
Lamb and
Westberg |
Washington State |
Isoprene canopy scale flux measurments, 30 min. resolution, ~once per hr., estimated uncertainty 20-30% |
Relaxed eddy accumulation sampling system |
|
Moody |
University of Virginia |
Trajectory calculations (forward and back) |
Three-channel continuous fluorescence technique |
| 3-D (4 per day) |
HySPLIT trajectory model based on ETA model wind fields |
| Cluster patterns |
PATH Algorithm (Patterns of atmospheric transport history) |
|
Samson |
University of Michigan |
Continuous measurements of wind speed/direction, temperature, temperature difference from forest floor to canopy, humidity, soil heat flux, and net radiation |
|
| Intensive measurements of wind flow and turbulence |
Anemometer, thermometer, thermocouple, hygrometer, soil thermocouples, and net radiometer |
|
Shepson |
Purdue |
Measurement of total organic nitrates |
Profiler, sonic anemometry |
| Measurements of acetaldehyde, acetone, methyl glyoxal, biacetyl, CH3CHO, C2H5CHO, MACR, MVK, isoprene, and a- and b-pinene, HCHO, C3H7CHO (30-60 min) |
Porous polymer sampling / thermal decomposition / chemiluminescence |
| Measurements of H2CO |
GC / MS and fast-response MS / MS |
|
Sillman and
Penner |
University of Michigan |
Analyze / interpret instantaneous chemistry; evaluate photochemical mechanisms for O3formation; and tests |
Hantzch / fluorimetry |
| Model development and tests |
Zero-dimensional modeling (box models) and measurement inputs; model-measurement comparisons |
|
Seinfeld |
California Institute of Technology |
Aerosol modelling |
Incorporation of aerosol chemistry into 3-D Eulerin chemistry and transport model; model-measurement tests |
|
Teeri |
University of Michigan |
Biological and ecological studies, UV-B measurements, enhanced CO2 / ecosystem response |
Too numerous to list here |
|
Young |
Ohio University |
Measurements of C2-C10 alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes, benzene, toluene, o-xylene, p,m-xylene, ethyl benzene |
Canisters, cryogenic concentration, GC-FID |
|
Zika and
Prospero |
University of Miami |
Measurement of organic aerosol components |
Impactor / filter and GC/MS |
| Measurements of isoprene, methacrolein, methyl vinyl ketone, 3-methyl furan, a-pinene, b-pinene, methanol, ethanol, 1-butanol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, acetaldehyde, propanal, butanal, isopentane, toluene, and benzene
|
In situ high speed GC/MS (10-15 min. resolution) |
