Chamber Studies of Atmospheric Chemistry
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2019) | Viewed by 7058
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our understanding of atmospheric oxidative chemistry has been derived largely from data obtained in laboratory chambers. The kinetics, products, and mechanisms of gas/particle-phase reactions can be simulated in a laboratory using several types of chambers, including a batch chamber, a continuously mixed flow reactor, and a flow tube. A highlight of chamber studies over the last decade has been the investigation of secondary organic aerosol formation and the evolution from the multi-generational oxidation of volatile organic compounds under different chemical regimes such as highly-polluted urban environments and remote atmospheres. The interpretation of these chamber observations has provided a fundamental basis for predicting the temporal profiles and spatial distributions of atmospheric aerosols in air quality and global climate models.
The aim of this Special Issue is to communicate the most recent advances in simulating atmospheric oxidation chemistry with laboratory chamber facilities. Potential topics for research and review articles include, but are not limited to, design, characterization, and applications of novel chamber facilities; intercomparison studies among different chambers; instrument development for the measurement of gas- and particle-phase species; and fundamental gas-phase kinetics, aqueous-phase and heterogenous reactions, aerosol chemistry, secondary organic aerosol formation pathways, and the development of explicit models for interpreting chamber data.
Dr. Xuan Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- laboratory chambers
- flow tube reactors
- gas-phase kinetics
- aqueous-phase chemistry
- heterogeneous reactions
- secondary organic aerosol formation
