Time Table of the Summer School 2011.

Location: Lise Meitner Lecture Hall, Faculty of Physics,

second floor (1. Stock), Strudelhofgasse 4, 1090 Vienna   

 

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, Fick’s 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