Session 3B Regional Air Quality III

Monday, 13 January 2025: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizer:
Cochairs:
Matthew M Coggon, NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO and Yang Li

Air quality is a global public health challenge with regionally-specific drivers and control strategies. Variations in meteorology and climate coupled with emission source types and atmospheric chemical processes lead to diverse air quality impacts at regional scale. This session solicits submissions from observational and modeling studies on air pollution in different regions around the world. Observational studies that include remote sensing, in-situ measurements, analysis from recent field intensives or a combination of these approaches are encouraged. Laboratory studies of important atmospheric chemical processes and progress toward the development of chemical mechanisms are also of interest. Modeling studies that use observations and laboratory data to improve predictive skills of air quality are welcome. Relevant air quality issues include, but are not limited to, near-surface ozone, fine particles, hazardous air pollutants, emerging/understudied pollution sources, smoke from wild and prescribed fires, visibility, regional haze, air quality-climate interactions, emissions and trends, and inequities in pollutant exposure and health impacts.

Papers:
1:45 PM
3B.1
Oxygenated Organic Aerosols in Munich: Molecular Characterization, Seasonal Variability, and Influence of Biomass Burning
Yaowei Li, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and Z. An, S. Abou-Rizk, Y. Li, J. B. Smith, V. Balamurugan, A. Wenzel, J. Chen, H. Saathoff, and F. Keutsch

2:00 PM
3B.2
Leveraging the High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer to Measure PFAS Aerosols
Adam M. Deitsch, PhD Student, NOAA Cooperative Science Center in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (NCAS-M), Washington, DC; University at Albany, Albany, NY; and J. Zhang, M. J. Schwab, J. J. Schwab, and S. M. Lance

Handout (2.3 MB)

2:15 PM
3B.3
Exploring the Spatial Variation of Volatile Organic Compounds in Louisiana’s Industrial corridor and Impacts to Community Exposures and Health Risk (Invited Presentation)
Peter Francis DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and E. Robinson, A. Yassine, M. Tehrani, A. Chiger, C. Gigot, S. Lupolt, B. A. Nault, Ph.D., E. Fortner, M. Canagaratna, C. Daube, B. Werden, J. R. Roscioli, H. Stark, S. Herndon, A. Rule, K. Koehler, T. Yacovitch, M. Claflin, T. Burke, and K. Nachman

2:30 PM
3B.4
Characterization of Fine Particulate Matter mass Concentration and Sources using Aerosol Mass Spectrometry in Eastern Africa
THEOBARD HABINEZA Sr., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA; and A. Robinson and A. A. Presto

2:45 PM
3B.5
Drivers of Regional Air Pollution Health Burdens from Long-Term Exposure to PM2.5, O3, and NO2.
Daven K. Henze, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and Y. Gu, P. Wiecko, M. O. Nawaz, and J. Choi

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