Marie Curie Training Site "Fine atmospheric particles -- formation, transport and impact"
Abstract
Aerosol science forms a broad sub-discipline of atmospheric sciences. Being closely linked to the fate and cycles of gaseous compounds, aerosols have emerged as an important, but still not well enough understood field of study. Besides of being important elements of biogeochemical cycles, aerosol particles alter the optical properties of the atmosphere, reflect solar radiation back to space, form nuclei for cloud droplet formation - and thus represent one of the most important elements of cour climate system. Consequenttly successful research on these topics requires interdisciplinary co-operation, as practised in this Marie Curie Training Site. The site consists of research groups acive in different areas of the atmospheric sciences, with the main being environmental analytical chemistry and environmental meteorology. The aim of this MCTS is to provide a unique opportunity to learn and to use latest developments in analytical chemistry, air chemistry and aerosol science as well as environmental meteorology and atmospheric radiation within a close co-operation between highly specialised groups. The folloing topics give an outline of typical areas of research which will be offered to fellows: - Emissions and behaviour of organic aerosols - Climatic and hygienic relevance of aerosolos - Aerosol scavenging in mixed clouds - Receptor-oriented atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling - Inverse modelling and source determination of atmospheric trace substances
aerosol inverse modelling dispersion modelling
Publikationen
Project staff
Petra Seibert
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Seibert
petra.seibert@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81417
Project Leader
15.05.2001 - 30.09.2005
BOKU partners
External partners
Technical University Vienna, Institut für Analytische Chemie
Anne Kasper-Giebl, Hans Puxbaum
coordinator