INTERNATIONAL

AEROSOL

MODELING

ALGORITHMS

December 5-7 2007 * The ARC - UC Davis

SPONSORED BY

The Air Quality Research Center, University of California Davis

The California Air Resources Board

EPRI

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5^th

7:00- 8:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
	The ARC Ballroom Foyer
7:30 - 12:00	REGISTRATION
	The ARC Ballroom Foyer
8:00 - 8:15	Welcome and Introduction
	The ARC
	Anthony Wexler, University of California, Davis
	Ajith Kaduwala, California Air Resources Board
8:15 - 9:00	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
	Frank Binkowski, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
	Modeling Aerosols for Regional Scale Environmental Applications

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9:00 - 10:00	SESSION I - A	SESSION I - B
	N2O5 + NO3 Experiments and Measurement	Thermodynamics - Inorganic/Water Content
	Chairs: Donald Dabdub, University of California Irvine	Chairs: Anthony Wexler, University of California Davis
	Nicole Riemer, Stony Brook University	Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia
	Insights into the Rate of N2O5 Hydrolysis from its Direct Atmospheric Observation in MOSAIC	An Efficient and Accurate Aerosol Thermodynamics Module
	Steven Brown, University of Colorado Boulder	Rahul Zaveri, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
	The NO3 Radical and the Chemistry of Organic Nitrate Aerosol	Microphysical Consistent Modeling of the Deliquescence and Efflorescence Hysteresis (UHAERO)
	Ronald Cohen, University of California Berkeley	Jiwen He, University of Houston
	Chemistry of Nitrogen Species in the Nocturnal Urban Boundary Layer: Insights from Field Observations and Simple Module Calculations	Modeling and Computation of Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Organic Aerosol Particles
	Jochen Stutz, University of California Los Angeles	Alexandre Caboussat, University of Houston

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10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

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10:30 - 12:00	SESSION II - A	SESSION II - B
	N2O5 + NO3 - Modeling	Thermodynamics - Inorganics CONTINUED
	Chairs: Donald Dabdub, University of California Irvine and Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia	Chairs: Anthony Wexler, University of California Davis and Nicole Riemer, Stony Brook University
	Modeling and Numerical Issues Related to N2O5 Dynamics	Quick, Dirty and Cheap Inorganic Aerosol Thermodynamics
	Donald Dabdub, University of California Irvine	K. Max Zhang, Cornell University
	The Heterogeneous Hydrolysis of N2O5: Chemistry Versus Meteorology	Aerosol Thermodynamics of Potassium Salts and Water Content Near the Eutectic
	Nicole Riemer, Stony Brook University	James Kelly, Environmental Protection Agency
	A Comprehensive Parametrization of the Heterogeneous Reaction Probability of N2O5 on Particles Containing Ammonium, Sulfate, and Nitrate	Estimation of Gas/Particle Partitioning in Systems Containing Multiple Inorganic and Organic Compounds: The Extended Aerosol Inorganics Model
	Prakash Bhave, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia
	A New Aerosol Model for Analyzing the Effects of Heterogeneous Reactions on Atmospheric Chemistry	Overview of the ISORROPIA Thermodynamic Model
	Chao Wei, University of Iowa	Athanasios Nenes, Georgia Tech

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12:00 - 1:30 BUFFET LUNCH - , Meeting Rooms 1&2, and the Lounge

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1:30 - 3:00	SESSION III - A	SESSION III - B
	Cloud/Fog Processing	Thermodynamics - Organics
	Chairs: Eladio Knipping, EPRI and Thanos Nenes, Georgia Tech	Chairs: Anthony Wexler, UC Davis and Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia
	Constraining the Effect of Aerosol Composition on Cloud Formation	Basis Set Gestalt: What is the Gunk Anyway, and Can Surrogate Represent Gunk?
	Markus Petters, Colorado State University	Neil M. Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University
	Physically-Based Parameterization of Cloud Droplet Formation	Next Steps in the Thermodynamic Modeling of Gas/Particle Partitioning of Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere
	Athanasios Nenes, Georgia Tech	James Pankow, Oregon Health & Science University
	Constraining the Effects of Composition and Mixing State on CCN Activity	A Thermodynamic Aerosol Module for a Non-Ideal, Phase-Separating Mixture of Primary and Secondary Organic Compounds
	Athanasios Nenes, Georgia Tech	Betty Pun, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
		Development of a Modal Aerosol Module with an Efficient Non-Equilibrium Treatment of Size-Dependent Gas-Particle Mass Transfer
		Uma Shankar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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3:00 - 3:30 BREAK

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3:30 - 5:00	SESSION IV - A	SESSION IV - B
	Sub-Grid Scale Modeling	Secondary Organics - Global Scale
	Chair: Eladio Knipping, EPRI, Prakash Karamchandani, Atmospheric Environmental Research Administration	Chairs: Prakash Bhave, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and David Simpson, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	Plume-in-Grid Modeling for PM - A Parallel Approach	Modeling Secondary Organic Aerosols: Current Achievements and Future Challenges
	Prakash Karamchandani, Atmospheric Environmental Research	Kostas Tsigaridis, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)
	Use of Hybrid Plume/Grid Modeling and Super Site Data to Model PM2.5 in St. Louis	Global Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Aromatic Hydrocarbons: High- vs. Low-Yield Pathways
	Ralph Morris, ENVIRON	Daven Henze, Caltech
	Emissions Sensitivities for PM Components for a Rural Site in the UK Using a Photochemical Trajectory Model	Modeling the Impact of Aerosol Formation to Particle and CCN Concentrations on Regional and Global Scales
	R.G. Derwent, rdscientific	Tatu Anttila, Finnish Meteorological Institute

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5:00 - 7:00 WELCOMING RECEPTION

POSTER VIEWING

The ARC Ballroom Foyer

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6th

7:30 - 8:15 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

The ARC Ballroom Foyer

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8:15 - 10:00	SESSION V- A	SESSION V - B
	Model Structure: Sections, Modes, Moments	Secondary Organics - Regional Scale
	Chairs: Rahul Zaveri, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Karine Sartelet, CEREA	Chairs: Prakash Bhave, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and David Simpson, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	Variable Moment General Dynamic Equations for Global and Regional Aerosol Modeling	Modeling Carbonaceous Aerosol in Europe: Comparisons with Measurements
	Boris Grits, University of California Davis	David Simpson, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	The Sectional and Modal Aerosol Models SIREAM and MAM in the Air Quality Platform Polyphemus: Common Features and Differences	Modeling the Contribution of SOA in Australian Air Pollution Events - from Smog Chamber to Airshed
	Karine Sartelet, CEREA	Martin Cope, CSIRO
	Application of Moment-Sectional Algorithms to Emerging Problems in Aerosol Science	Evaluation of New Approaches to Modeling Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter in CAMx
	Peter Adams, Carnegie Mellon University	Bonyoung Koo, ENVIRON International Corporation
	New Developments in the Quadrature Method of Moments (QMOM) Approach to Aerosol Simulation	Modeling of Carbonaceous Aerosols with CHIMERE - Focus on Secondary Organic Aerosols
	Robert McGraw, Brookhaven National Laboratory	Bertrand Bessagnet, L'Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques
	A Mode Merging Algorithm for Modal Models
	Evan Whitby, Chimera Technologies, Inc.

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10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

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10:30 - 12:00	SESSION VI - A	SESSION VI - B
	Model Structure: Hybrid and Fully Dynamic	Secondary Organics - Kinetics
	Chairs: Rahul Zaveri, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Karine Sartelet, CEREA	Chairs: Prakash Bhave, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and David Simpson, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	Equilibrium, Dynamic, and Hybrid Approaches for Atmospheric Aerosol Modeling	The Rise and Fall of Organic Aerosol Mass: Oxidation Giveth and Oxidation Taketh Away
	Bonyoung Koo, ENVIRON	Neil M. Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University
	Dynamic Gas-Particle Partitioning in the UCD Aerosol Module	Explicit Modelling of the SOA/VOC/NOx System
	K. Max Zhang, Cornell University	Bernard Aumont, Universite de Paris
	A Solution to the Problem of Nonequilibrium Acid/Base Gas-Particle Transfer at Long Time Step	Development of a Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Mechanism: Comparison with Smog Chamber Experiments and Atmospheric Measurements
	Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University	Luis Olcese, University of Michigan
	An Efficient Algorithm for Dynamic Gas-Particle Partitioning In MOSAIC	Validation of Soot Aging Models with Particle-Resolved Simulations
	Rahul Zaveri, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Nicole Riemer, Stony Brook University

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12:00 - 1:30 BUFFET LUNCH - , Meeting Rooms 1&2, and the Lounge

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1:30 - 3:00	SESSION VII - A	SESSION VII - B
	Parallel Processing Issues	Secondary Organics - Miscellaneous Processes
	Chairs: Mike Kleeman, University of California Davis and Donald Dabdub, University of California Irvine	Chairs: Prakash Bhave, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and David Simpson, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	Efficient Parallel Methods for the Advection of Large Numbers of Species in Air Quality Models	SOA Model by Partitioning and Heterogeneous Reactions in the Presence of Inorganic Species
	Mike Kleeman, University of California Davis	Myoseon Jang, University of Florida
	Parallel Computation in Atmospheric Modeling: Past and Future	Organic Aerosols in the Air Quality Platform Polyphemus: Oxidation Pathways, Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Partitioning and Oligomerization
	Donald Dabdub, University of California Irvine	Edouard Debry, CEREA
	A Parallel Program Building Block	The Lumped Composition Aerosol (LCA) Module for Simulating Composition Effects on SOA Formation
	David Wong, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Frank Bowman, University of North Dakota
		Three Types of Secondary Organic Aerosol Yields Based on the Gas/Aerosol Partitioning Theory and Their Relevance to Modelling Organic Aerosol Formation
		Weimin Jiang, National Research Council of Canada

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3:00 - 3:30 BREAK

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3:30 - 5:00	SESSION VIII - A	SESSION VIII - B
	WRF- Chem + Aerosols	Secondary Organics - In-Cloud Formation
	Chair: Georg Grell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Chairs: Prakash Bhave, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and David Simpson, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	Overview of WRF-Chem	Chemical Processes in Cloud Droplets as a Source of Secondary Organic Aerosol
	Georg Grell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Barbara Ervens, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
	Implementation of Aerosol-Radiation-Cloud-Chemistry Interactions in WRF-Chem	Simulating Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Cloud Processing of Organic Compounds in CMAQ-MADRID
	William I. Gustafson Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Jianjun Chen, University of California Davis
	Comparison of Real Time PM 2.5 Forecast Model Results with Aircraft Data from TexAQS-2006 Field Study	CMAQ Parameterization of Cloud-Produced Secondary Organic Aerosol
	Stuart McKeen , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Ann Marie Carlton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
	The Aerosol Modeling Test Bed: A Proposed Tool to Facilitate Improved Aerosol Process Models
	Jerome Fast, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th

7:45- 8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

The ARC Ballroom Foyer

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8:30 - 10:00	SESSION IX - A	SESSION IX - B
	WRF- Chem + Aerosols - CONTINUED	Source Oriented
	Chair: Georg Grell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Chairs: Mike Kleeman, University of California Davis and Ted Russell, Georgia Tech
	Sensitivity Tests of CCN-Cloud Droplet Number Using a Newly Developed WRF Microphysics Scheme on Various Case Studies	Regional Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in Central California Using a Source-Oriented Air Quality Model
	Greg Thompson, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Qi Ying, Texas A&M
	Inter-comparison of Forecasted Aerosol Formation by CMAQ and WRF-Chem	Primary Source Apportionment
	William R. Stockwell, Howard University	Antony Chen, Desert Research Institute
	Current and Future Aerosol Studies Using WRF-Chem	Source Apportionment Using Direct Sensitivity
	Mary Barth, The National Center for Atmospheric Research	Sergey Napelenok, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
	Developing Data Assimilation Capabilities in WRF-Chem
	Greg Carmichael, University of Iowa

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10:00 - 10:15 BREAK

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10:15 - 12:00 WRAP-UP AND NEXT STEPS -

Anthony Wexler, University of California, Davis

Ajith Kaduwala, California Air Resources Board

POSTERS

Presenting Author in Blue

1 - Statistics of Volumes, Swept by Non- Spherical Particles in a Turbulent Flow

Boris Grits, UC Davis, and Mark Pinsky and Alexander Khain, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2 - Comparison of CMAQ Aerosol Predictions by Two Thermodynamic Modules: UHAERO vs. ISORROPIA

Fang-Yi Cheng, Andrey Martynenko, Daewon Byun and Jiwen He, University of Houston

3 - Developing Sectional Aerosol Models for Modelling UK Atmospheric Aerosol

Michael K. Bane, Douglas Lowe and Gordon B. McFiggans, University of Manchester

4 - Investigation of the Influence of Microphysical Assumptions on Aerosol Chemistry Systems

Douglas Lowe, David Topping, and Gordan McFiggans, University of Manchester

5 - Characterization of Aerosols in U.S Southwest Cities Using an Inverse Reconstruction Model to

Retrieve Aerosol Size Distribution from Optical Depth Data

Rosa Fitzgerald and Javier Polanco, University of Texas and William Stockwell, Howard University

The Air Quality Research Center	PROGRAM COMMITTEE
3051 Bainer Hall	Prakash Bhave, EPA
University of California Davis	Donald Dabdub, UC Irvine
airquality.ucdavis.edu	Ajith Kaduwala, CARB
	Michael Kleeman, UC Davis
Director: Anthony Wexler	Eladio Knipping, EPRI
Assistant Director: Victoria Evans	Dennis Robin, EPA
Conference Manager: Donna Reid	Christian Seigneur, AER
CEVS Registration: Katrina Damilano Evans and Alison Byrum	Anthony Wexler, UC Davis
	Rahul Zaveri, PNL

We would like to thank the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and EPRI for their support of this Conference