Access to Laboratory Data
The laboratory data activity will increase the value of databases to the growing community of chemists and atmospheric scientists studying atmospheric pollution and atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions. It will also provide a mechanism for increased integration between laboratory scientists and other atmospheric researchers. The activity can be divided into three tasks:
1. Accessibility and content of the kinetic data bases. The primary aim of this task is to enhance the accessibility and content of the kinetic data bases, which have been assembled by different laboratories in the EU member states. A number of databases have been identified. Improved accessibility will be achieved firstly by harmonising the access to these databases by creating a meta-data facility on the Web. This will contain a directory of the contents of the databases and information on how to search them. An initial web page for this activity will be added by mid-November.
2. Scheme for updating and improving access. A second task will be to develop and implement a scheme for updating and improving access to the material in the databases. This will involve compilation and evaluation of physico-chemical data (rate coefficients, mechanisms, photochemical parameters and parameters relating to gas-condensed phase partitioning etc. ). This would involve group data evaluation activities, directed at target topics with detailed assessment of the reliability of the data (activities such as those previously done under the SPARC-IGAC laboratory initiative for RO2 radicals and ozone photolysis). This activity would be conducted mainly by laboratory scientists but with involvement of modellers. ACCENT would provide the organisation for this activity.
3. Testing laboratory data in models. A third task will involve the testing laboratory data in models (especially new models, for example using a variety of scales including small scales). New parameterisations for complex chemistry and aerosol formation will be required for the evolution in three-dimensional models to tackle the issue of climate chemistry interactions. This integrating activity would be conducted by modellers in collaboration with laboratory scientists.
Collaboration As with other activities in ACCENT, this work package will encourage collaboration between national and international research activities. Collaboration activities have already been agreed with SPARC-IGAC and it is expected that agreements will soon be made with other networks and organisations.
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Project coordinator: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. coordinator@accent-network.org Project Office: Università di Urbino. project.office@accent-network.org Web-coordinator: Norwegian Institute for Air Research. mail@accent-network.org ACCENT Disclaimer |