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EPRI and Air & Waste Management Association's Workshop on Future Air Quality Model Development Needs

Date: 9 June 2011

The EPRI and Air & Waste Management Association's Workshop on "Future Air Quality Model Development Needs" will take place on 12-13 September 2011, in Washington DC, USA

The EPRI and Air & WMA workshop is designed to bring together leading researchers from academia, government, and private institutions, industry, and other stakeholders to brainstorm on various model development needs and develop a comprehensive research agenda that can be used by the community to help guide research plans and to promote collaboration amongst researchers.

The focus of this initial two-day workshop is limited to the use of atmospheric models to support regional-scale air quality applications, such as forecasting or control strategy development.

Tyndall’s work provided for the first time a solid scientific basis for the understanding of the natural greenhouse effect, whereby the Earth’s surface temperature is maintained at a value considerably higher than it would be in the absence of these heat-trapping gases. It also showed the basic mechanism for the enhanced greenhouse effect that results when the concentrations of the longer-lived absorbing gases are increased above their naturally occurring values.

Objectives:

  • Identify Research Gaps in Air-Quality Process Representations
  • Develop a Research Agenda for Future Model Development

Discussion Topics:

  1. Homogeneous-Phase Chemistry
  2. Heterogeneous-Phase Chemistry (including Inorganic and Organic Aqueous-Phase Chemistry)
  3. Organic Particulate Matter: Formation and Aging of Secondary Organic Aerosol
  4. Meteorological Processes Affecting Air Quality

Speakers include:

Keynote Speaker: John Seinfeld Caltech
Session I Speaker 1: Ron Cohen UC Berkeley
Session I Speaker 2: Dick Derwent Rdscientific, UK
Session II Speaker 1: Hartmut Herrmann Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Session II Speaker 2: Barbara Turpin Rutgers University
Session III Speaker 1: Prakash Bhave US EPA
Session III Speaker 2: Allen Robinson Carnegie Mellon University
Session IV Speaker 1: Jerome Fast Pacific Northwest National
Session IV Speaker 1: Leiming Zhang Environment Canada

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