Time Table of the Summer School 2011.
Location: Lise Meitner
Lecture Hall, Faculty of Physics,
second floor (1. Stock), Strudelhofgasse 4, 1090
Sunday, July 03, 2011: Arrival of participants, 18:00: city walking
tour
Monday, July 04, 2011
08:30 Welcome
and opening (Horvath)
08:45 (1) Aerosol
mechanics: Stokes law, slip correction, stop distance, settling velocity,
sampling inlets, equivalent particle size (Szymanski)
10:15 coffee break
10:45 (2) Optical particle measurement: Single vs. multiple particle measurement, scattering and
transmission measurement, single particle optical counters and spectrometers,
multi valued response, different designs of OPCs,
accuracy, resolution and detection limits, coincidence errors, calibration. (Szymanski),
12:15 - 15:00 lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lecture (1) and (2) (Szymanski)
16:00 16:30 Coffee
16:30 18:00 (3) Aerosol sampling and measurement: principles and major methods for
off-line and on-line measurements, collection of samples: inlets, sampling
devices, sampling artifacts and their correction methods; major instruments for
aerosol mass, carbonaceous species and particle number. (Salma)
18:30 Departure to typical Viennese Heurigen
Tuesday July 5, 2011
08:30 (4) Nucleation
and condensation I: Formation of aerosol particles, homomolecular
homogeneous nucleation and heteromolecular
homogeneous nucleation: models and experiments, (Wagner)
10:00 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 12:00 (5) Nucleation and condensation II: Heterogeneous nucleation: theory
and experiments, condensation nuclei counters, Condensation processes in the
atmosphere (Wagner)
12:00 -15:00 Lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 -16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lecture (4) and (5) (Wagner)
16:00 16:30 Coffee
16:30 18:00 (6) Particle statistics: shape of aerosol particles, equivalent
diameters, particle number, surface and mass size distributions, lognormal
distribution function, modes of size distributions, important size intervals,
average diameters, moments of size distributions, inversion problem,
applications.. (Salma)
18:00 18:30 Discussion of
assignments of lecture (3) (Salma)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
08:30 10:00 (7) Diffusion and filtration I: Maxwell-Boltzmann
distribution of molecular velocities, Ficks
diffusion laws, Brownian motion, diffusion coefficient, deposition by
diffusion, (Hitzenberger)
10:00 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 12:00 (8) Diffusion and filtration II: deposition in ducts, diffusion batteries,
diffusion denuders, filters: types of and artifacts, filtration theory,
selection of filter media
(Hitzenberger)
12:00 -15:00 Lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lectures (7) and (8) (Hitzenberger)
16:00 16:30 Coffee
16:30 18:00
(9) Inertial separation:
Stokes number, Cyclone, Impactor: Stokes law, Knudsen
number, flow through nozzle, efficiency curve of impacting jet, design criteria
for impactors, virtual impactors,
cyclone, aerodynamic particles sizer (Hitzenberger)
Thursday, July 07, 2011
08:30 10:00 (10) Electrical properties of Aerosols. Charge and mobility distribution, differential
mobility spectrometer: measurement procedure, response with various sensors,
data reduction, data acqisition (Reischl)
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 -12:00(11) Electrical aerosol measurement: electrostatic emission
characterization, dual differential mobility spectrometer, measurements of
transient aerosol conditions, examples for diesel particulate emission measurements (Reischl)
12:00 -14:30 Lunch break and time for
assignments
14:30 15:30 Discussion of assignments of lectures
(10) and (11) (Reischl)
15:30 -16:00 Coffee
16:00 19:00 Demonstration of Advanced DMA
measurements, integrating nephelometer, and monitoring
instruments (Reischl, Horvath, MLU)
Friday, July 8, 2011
08:30 10:00 (12) Fundaments of Aerosol chemistry I: Chemistry basics, the
atmospheric aerosol system, main constituents, sources of atmospheric
particles, chemical composition (major and minor constituents, traces),
composition and size, vertical distribuation, cloud
processing, removal, temporal trends (Puxbaum)
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 -12:00 (13) Fundaments of Aerosol chemistry II; EU PM standard, Sampling for
analysis, analytical methods [carbonaceous components TC/EC/OC/CC Sum
parameters (HULIS), organic compounds, ionic compounds, main elements (mineralic compounds)], Soutce
analysis of atmospheric particles, ambient data, wet deposition (Puxbaum)
12:00 -15:00 Lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lectures (12) and (13) (Puxbaum)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
16:30 18:00 (14) Chemical
on line measurement (Niessner)
Saturday, July
9, 2011
08:30- 10:00 (15) Modern spectroscopy as a tool for aerosol characterization Niessner)
10:00 11:00 Coffee
11:00 12:00 Discussion of assignments of lectures
(14) and (15) (Niessner)
Sunday, July
10, 2011
Free
Monday, July
11, 2011
08:30 10:00 (16) Deposition, clearance and retention of particles in the lung I:
Structure of the respiratory system, deposition
mechanisms, breathing parameters, airflow patterns, transport mechanisms,
deposition in various parts of the lung. (Hofmann)
10:00 -10:30 Coffee
10:30
- 12:00 (17) Deposition, clearance and
retention of particles in the lung II: Modeling particle deposition,
clearance mechanisms, active transport of deposited particles, retention,
particle-lung interaction, dose metrics for risk assessment. (Hofmann)
12:00 15:00 Lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lectures (16) and (17)
(Hofmann)
16:00 16:30 Coffee
16:30 18:00 (18) Aerosol Optics: Interaction of light with particles: Scattering,
absorption, extinction, Mie theory, Phase function,
mixed particles. (Horvath)
Tuesday, July
12, 2011
08:30 -10:00 (19) Primary biological aerosol in the atmosphere I (Jaenicke)
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 12:00 (20) Primary biological aerosol in the atmosphere II (Jaenicke)
12:00 15:00 Lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lectures (19) and (20) (Jaenicke)
16:00 16:30 Coffe
16:30 18:00 (21) Visibility and atmospheric optics: relative air mass and attenuation, visibility theory, sky
radiance, Angstrφm formula, elements of radiative transfer, radiative
forcing (Horvath)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
08:30 10:00 (22) Aerosol remote sensing I: Remote sounding
techniques: emission, extinction, scattering, backscattering. Remote sounding platforms, inverse problem, retrieval procedures, backtrajectories, examples of columnar extinction
measurements. (Alados)
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 12:00 (23) Aerosol remote sensing II: LIDAR: backscattering, LIDAR equation,
elastic and Raman technique, evaluation procedures, examples. (Alados)
12:00 15:00 Lunch break and time for
assignments
15:00 16:00 Discussion of assignments of
lectures (22) and (23)
(Alados)
16:00 16:30 Coffee
16:30 17:30 Discussion of assignments of
lectures (18) and (21)
(Horvath)
Thursday, July 14, 2011
08:30 Departure by bus from Boltzmanngasse
5:
Field
experiment: Visual
determination of visibility and extinction (Horvath)
17:00 Presentation of results, general
discussion (Horvath)
Friday, July 15, 2011: Departure of participants